Antifragile Critical Infrastructure Systems

Antifragility is an improved resilience approach introduced in 2012 by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book entitled: “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”. The idea behind Antifragility is to appreciate some level of stressors and perturbation and actively “employ” them to get better performance over a longer time horizon.

Our vision is to integrate antifragile mechanisms into critical infrastructure systems:

• Seek to inject volatility in critical infrastructure systems to expose their fragilities.
• Enable critical infrastructure systems to take autonomous decisions to move from stable to unstable conditions.
• Enable critical infrastructure systems to survive shocks and dynamically determine their fragilities.
• Use the fragilities of critical infrastructure systems to learn by doing how to thrive as threats vary.
• Exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support the adaptability and evolution of critical infrastructure systems.
• Go beyond the traditional target of resilience by proactively self-adapting and self-organizing the behavior of critical infrastructure systems to changing conditions.

Publications:

• Bangui Hind, Barbora Buhnova, and Bruno Rossi. Shifting Towards Antifragile Critical Infrastructure Systems. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS). 2022.
• Bangui Hind, Bruno Rossi, and Barbora Buhnova. A Conceptual Antifragile Microservice Framework for Reshaping Critical Infrastructures. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). 2022.

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