Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday May 27, 14h-16h Place: *room **D.2.16*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ A behavioral framework for the discussion of resilience, elasticity, and antifragility Vincenzo De Florio <http://win.uantwerpen.be/%7Evincenz/> (Universiteit Antwerpen) Abstract: Resilience is one of those “general systems attributes” that appear to play a central role in several disciplines. Examples include ecology, business, psychology, industrial safety, microeconomics, computer networks, security, management science, cybernetics, control theory, as well as crisis and disaster management and recovery. Although common traits are retained, in each discipline resilience takes peculiar domain-specific meanings. In this talk I introduce a behavioral model of resilience. Resilience is interpreted as the property emerging from the interaction of the behaviors exercised by a system and those of the environment it is set to operate in. The outcome of said interaction depends on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors: the systemic “traits” of the system together with its endowment—the system’s peculiar characteristics as well as its current state and requirements. I show how my behavioral model provides with a unifying framework within which it is possible to express coherent definitions of concepts often misunderstood, including elasticity, entelechism (change tolerance), and antifragility. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *June 3 * Viktoras Veitas *June 10 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
