Systems-of-Systems and Regional Resilience Assessment

In the context of regional resilience, focus is on the conception of metrics to evaluate the ability of regions to resist economic shocks. Still, less attention is given to structures, interactions and workflow pathways within the spatial object in the development of resilience metrics. In this chapter, an approach is proposed to the assessment of structural resilience. It is based on the engineering aspect and aims to assess the structural resilience of industrial infrastructures amid a region, by adopting a SoS approach. Furthermore, it also helps to anticipate and evaluate the impacts of threats targeting an area to elaborate plans and take action to mitigate their impacts. A prototype has been designed to conduct experiments.