Designing Complex Engineered Systems for the Risky Environment

Abstract

Designing complex engineered system for the risky environment is a comprehensive process including two main steps, namely creating reliable system’s infrastructure and assurance process continuity. In case of logistics networks architecting reliable engineered system of systems is based on the principle of High Reliability Organisations, whereas the process continuity ensuring is established on the concept of Resilient Enterprise. We understand vulnerability to a disruptive event as the degree to which a system is affected by a disruptive event and the term dependability as ‘anti-vulnerability’. Based on these concepts, we propose the evaluation algorithm of the dependability for complex engineered systems.