Future Resilient Systems phase 2 launched!
The second phase of the FRS programme officially started on 1 April. It is launched amidst unprecedented global circumstances, highlighting the need to better understand and foster resilience.
The Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme started in the midst of a global crisis - COVID-19. Such a crisis or disruption demands resilience on many fronts to ensure that economies and societies can continue to function, recover and become stronger once this crisis ends.
In the second phase of the FRS, there is a particular emphasis on social resilience to enhance the understanding of how socio-technical systems perform before, during and after disruptions.
The topics under the second phase include:
Cyber Physical Systems Resilience
Resilience of High-Density Urban Systems
Distributed Cognition for Social Resilience
The urban environment is a complex system made up of interconnected socio-technical systems, such as transport, energy, and financial systems, as well as human and community networks. Rapid urbanisation and densification of population and infrastructure have led to the emergence of high-density urban systems, which tend to be vulnerable to disruptions and cascading failure.
FRS also addresses how digitalisation has led to the evolution of infrastructure systems into cyber-physical systems. These physical systems have integrated data acquisition, analysis, and intelligent advisory abilities that interact with users and operators. This calls for new approaches to make these systems more resilient.
Finally, researchers will develop ways to improve our sense-making capabilities and improve resilience based on how humans and organisations interact. Distributed cognition will be made possible by acquiring data from human and technical systems in real time through mobile sensors and data science.
The FRS programme is ramping up and is now recruiting! Join us!
