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Revision as of 07:12, 7 December 2011

a design principle that allows a system to degrade gradually upon the encounter with a threat. It assumes that the capability of a system is concentrated in local nodes so that no more than one node fails at a time -- adapted from (Woods 2006)

Source(s)

Woods, David D. 2006. Essential Characteristics of Resilience. In Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts, edited by E. Hollnagel, Woods, David D., and Leveson, Nancy. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publlishing Limited.

Discussion

This is a key design principle in the context of resilience to achieve the attribute of tolerance.