ABSTRACT
The topic of the chapter is the concept of resilience and its application in science and practice, especially in engineering. The foundations of a new approach to creating, implementing, and operating systems based on the so-called resilience thinking and its characteristics, including adaptability and capacity for transformation, are presented. A brief review of main development trends of the resilience approach in various areas of application was made and common features of these studies as fundamental for the emergence of a new discipline of knowledge – the Resilience Science – were summarized. Part one of the chapter concludes with a proposal for a matrix of strategies and aspects for providing resilience to systems and organizations. Part two of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of the principles, methods, and models used in resilience engineering. The basic relationships on which modeling the resilience of systems and organizations is based are presented, and five main types of models used in qualitative and quantitative research on resilience are analysed. At the end of the chapter, a universal simplified functional model of resilience is proposed, which will be a starting point for the development of complex quantitative-qualitative models in the following chapters of this work.
