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The Many Faces of Resilience

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A review of network science and complexity theory as they apply to the ability of systems to resist stress and recover from faults.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 66, Issue 1
          January 2023
          97 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3578247
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          • James Larus
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