Daniel A Eisenberg

Daniel A Eisenberg
Arizona State University | ASU

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The rebound curve remains the most prevalent model for conceptualizing, measuring, and explaining resilience for engineering and community systems by tracking the functional robustness and recovery of systems over time. (It also goes by many names, including the resilience curve, the resilience triangle, and the system functionality curve, among ot...
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Dynamic processes on networks, be it information transfer in the Internet, contagious spreading in a social network, or neural signaling, take place along shortest or nearly shortest paths. Computing shortest paths is a straightforward task when the network of interest is fully known, and there are a plethora of computational algorithms for this pu...
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The Mission Dependency Index (MDI) is a risk metric used by US military services and federal agencies for guiding operations, management, and funding decisions for facilities. Despite its broad adoption for guiding the expenditure of billions in federal funds, several studies on MDI suggest it may have flaws that limit its efficacy. We present a de...
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Dynamic processes on networks, be it information transfer in the Internet, contagious spreading in a social network, or neural signaling, take place along shortest or nearly shortest paths. Unfortunately, our maps of most large networks are substantially incomplete due to either the highly dynamic nature of networks, or high cost of network measure...
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While current practices for infrastructure currently follow principles of reliability and risk, these are—by necessity—based on knowledge of past events. They are not suited to adapt infrastructure to dramatic change and/or future surprises. In this paper, we propose a research agenda for the development of novel training exercises that complement...
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Fifty years of research in Networks coincides with 50 years of advances in resilience theory and applications. The purpose of this review is to identify how these two technical communities influenced each other in the past and can bolster each other in the future. Advances in resilience theory show that there are at least four ways networks demonst...
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Major blackouts are often attributed to cascading failures, where the failure of few power grid components causes large-scale loss of electricity. Despite recent innovations in modeling and predicting cascading losses, few studies link cascades to the complex management context of blackout response. This work broadens the purpose of cascading failu...
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Abstract Motivated by the need for cities to prepare for and adapt to climate change, we advance the paradigm of safe‐to‐fail by focusing on the decision dilemmas and the consideration of infrastructure failure consequences in developing infrastructure. Infrastructures are largely designed as fail‐safe; that is, they are not intended to fail, and w...
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The concept of “resilience analytics” has recently been proposed as a means to leverage the promise of big data to improve the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems and the communities supported by them. Given recent advances in machine learning and other data‐driven analytic techniques, as well as the prevalence of high‐prof...
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Despite Federal directives calling for an integrated approach to strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure systems, little is known about the relationship between human behavior and infrastructure resilience. While it is well recognized that human response can either amplify or mitigate catastrophe, the role of human or psychological...
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We review the command and control (C2) literature to develop a comprehensive understanding of C2 systems and identify network evaluation methods. C2 is the recursive process of sharing the intent of decision-makers across organizations, turning intent into action, monitoring success, and adjusting goals to meet changing needs. Although substantial...
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Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change) has typically been techno-centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to prevent or minimize disruptions via a risk-based approach that emphasizes control, armoring, and strengthening (e.g., raising the height of levees). However, climate and noncli...
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Existing analyses of the February 2017 Oroville Dam Crisis identify maintenance failures and engineering shortcomings as the root cause of a nearly catastrophic failure of the tallest dam in the United States. However, the focus on technical shortcomings largely overlooks the role of adaptive decision-making that eventually averted the crisis. Unde...
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Resilience research includes multiple definitions, concepts, perspectives, and applications across a broad range of academic disciplines. While experts, policy-makers, and practitioners assert that resilience requires holism, what is considered holistic is rarely discussed. The traditional scientific approach to holism is to engage multiple discipl...
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Continued growth in the American Southwest depends on the reliable delivery of services by critical infrastructure systems, including water, power, and transportation. As these systems age, they are increasingly vulnerable to extreme heat events that both increase infrastructure demands and reveal complex interdependencies that amplify stressors. W...
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In this work, we propose an interdependent, multilayer network model and percolation process that matches infrastructures better than previous models by allowing some nodes to survive when their interdependent neighbors fail. We consider a node-to-link failure propagation mechanism and establish "weak" interdependence across layers via a tolerance...
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As climate change affects precipitation patterns, urban infrastructure may become more vulnerable to flooding. Flooding mitigation strategies must be developed such that the failure of infrastructure does not compromise people, activities, or other infrastructure. “Safe-to-fail” is an emerging paradigm that broadly describes adaptation scenarios th...
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Built infrastructure continues to become more vulnerable to failure due to shifting temperature and precipitation extremes associated with global climate change. Current infrastructure design practices require risk analysis to predict a range of weather events in which built systems endure any possible failure—or “fail-safe” design. However, if the...
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International efforts to improve power grid resilience mostly focus on technological solutions to reduce the probability of losses by designing hardened, automated, redundant, and smart systems. However, how well a system recovers from failures depends on policies and protocols for human and organizational coordination that must be considered along...
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In this work, we propose an interdependent, multilayer network model and percolation process that matches infrastructures better than previous models by allowing some nodes to survive when their interdependent neighbors fail. We consider a node-to-link failure propagation mechanism and establish "weak" interdependence across layers via a tolerance...
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We analyze the stability of the network's giant connected component under impact of adverse events, which we model through the link percolation. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the largest connected component of a network consists of the same nodes, regardless of the specific set of deactivated links. Our results are intuitive in the...
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We analyze the stability of the network's giant connected component under impact of adverse events, which we model through the link percolation. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the largest connected component of a network consists of the same nodes, regardless of the specific set of deactivated links. Our results are intuitive in the...
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Despite federal policy directives to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure systems to extreme weather and other adverse events, several knowledge and governance barriers currently frustrate progress towards policy goals, namely: 1) a lack of awareness of what constitutes resilience in diverse infrastructure applications, 2) a lack of...
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In this work, we present topological and resilience analyses of the South Korean power grid (KPG) with a broad voltage level. While topological analysis of KPG only with high-voltage infrastructure shows an exponential degree distribution, providing another empirical evidence of power grid topology, the inclusion of low voltage components generates...
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Climate change may constrain future electricity supply adequacy by reducing electric transmission capacity and increasing electricity demand. The carrying capacity of electric power cables decreases as ambient air temperatures rise; similarly, during the summer peak period, electricity loads typically increase with hotter air temperatures due to in...
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We investigate the emergence of extreme events in interdependent networks. We introduce an inter-layer traffic resource competing mechanism to account for the limited capacity associated with distinct network layers. A striking finding is that, when the number of network layers and/or the overlap among the layers are increased, extreme events can e...
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More than a decade has passed since the UK Royal Society’s report (RS RAE 2004) spurred research and discussions on the potential health and environmental impacts of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs). Scientists, regulators, and other decision makers are still developing and establishing sound risk assessment (RA) approaches for ENMs. This chapter pr...
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Recent directives from the US Office of the President have detailed the need for resilience in the face of increased security threats and natural disasters. While these documents call for resilience improvements, no guiding framework for the assessment of resilience exists. Federal agencies are then deriving individual ways to address resilience, r...
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Although the flow between parallel and inclined disks is a simple representation of many complex flow situations, this class of flow poses significant problems for experimental and numerical study. This paper presents experimental results of the pressure distribution for turbulent radial flow between parallel and inclined disks, considering differe...
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Supply-demand processes take place on a large variety of real-world networked systems ranging from power grids and the internet to social networking and urban systems. In a modern infrastructure, supply-demand systems are constantly expanding, leading to constant increase in load requirement for resources and consequently, to problems such as low e...
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Despite the need for more resilient critical infrastructure systems (CIS), analytical tools remain insufficient to measure CIS disaster resilience. While multiple analysis techniques exist within the literature, they only capture part of what constitutes resilience and remain segregated in application. We argue that CIS resilience is a dynamic, soc...
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Escalating damages associated with international catastrophes, such as Hurricane Sandy and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdown, have spurred the Office of the President to release Executive Orders that direct government agencies to enhance national preparedness and resilience. However, there has been a struggle to comply with these directives as...
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Current research policy and strategy documents recommend applying life cycle assessment (LCA) early in research and development (R&D) to guide emerging technologies toward decreased environmental burden. However, existing LCA practices are ill-suited to support these recommendations. Barriers related to data availability, rapid technology change, a...
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The Brundtland commission defined sustainable development as: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Butlin (1989) Our common future, by World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford University Press, London, 1987). Translating this definition into an...
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The goal of guiding innovation toward beneficial social and environmental outcomes – referred to in the growing literature as responsible research and innovation (RRI) – is intuitively worthwhile but lacks practicable tools for implementation. One potentially useful tool is life-cycle assessment (LCA), which is a comprehensive framework used to eva...
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As federal agencies and businesses rely more on cyber infrastructure, they are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that can cause damages disproportionate to the sophistication and cost to launch the attack. In response, regulatory authorities call for focusing attention on enhancing infrastructure resilience. For example, in the USA, Presiden...
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Unprecedented losses associated with adverse events such as natural disasters and cyber-attacks have focused attention on new approaches to mitigating damages. Whereas the dominant analytic and governance paradigm of the last several decades has been risk analysis, recently rhetoric has shifted towards the necessity of understanding and designing f...
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Copper-indium-gallium-selenium-sulfide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaics are increasingly penetrating the market supply for consumer solar panels. Although CIGS is attractive for producing less greenhouse gas emissions than fossil-fuel based energy sources, CIGS manufacturing processes and solar cell devices use hazardous materials that should be care...
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Axisymmetric sphere-wall and two-sphere interactions were examined in a viscoelastic solution composed of polyisobutylene polymer in tetradecane. The Reynolds and Stokes numbers were small, so that inertia played at most a minor role, while the Deborah numbers De were in the range 0.4 < De < 3.5. When single spheres fell away from the solid top of...
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Hazard assessment tools offer the capability to determine the future hazardous impacts associated with an emerging technology; however, choosing among these tools to make a hazard assessment is difficult and can introduce biases. Instead, using multiple tools for the same hazard assessment can provide a more comprehensive study, but can produce con...

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