Seminar on January 16, 2023

Title

Towards a Conceptual Characterisation of Antifragile Systems

Speaker

Prof. Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

When and Where

January 16, 2023, 16:00-17:00
Online on Zoom, see TAS Resilience Node for registration or send an email to Valeria Cardellini

Abstract

Antifragility has recently emerged as a design principle for the realisation of systems that remain trustworthy despite the occurrence of changes during their operations. In this work, we intend to support the vision that an effective application of this principle requires a clear understanding of the implications of its adoption and of its relationships with other approaches sharing a similar objective. To this end, we argue that a proper conceptual characterisation of antifragility can be achieved through its inclusion within the consolidated dependability taxonomy, which was proposed in the recent past with the goal of providing a reference framework to reason about the different facets of the general concern of designing dependable systems.

Short Bio

Raffaela Mirandola is Full Professor in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research interests include the areas of performance and reliability modelling and analysis of software/hardware systems with special emphasis on: methods for the automatic generation of performance and reliability models for component-based and service-based systems, and methods to develop software that is dependable and can easily evolve, possibly self-adapting its behaviour.