Resilience by Teaming Framework

Abstract

Over the last decade, researchers and practitioners have been increasingly focusing on developing strategies to create resilient supply networks. Most approaches focus on optimizing the trade-off between operational costs and resilience through increased protection, in the form of redundancy and excess resources, and/or the use of more reliable agents/resources. Nature and humans, however, show us that it is also possible to create resilient systems with fault-prone agent and resources through smart designs and distributed control protocols. The driving force behind these resilient systems is teaming. Teaming is a process by which a set of agents form a network and collaborate to achieve their individual goals and, perhaps, a common objective. Inspired in the Fault-tolerance by Teaming principle of Collaborative Control Theory (Nof 2007), the Resilience by Teaming framework (Reyes Levalle 2015; Reyes Levalle and Nof 2015) comprises a set of principles and protocols to design and operate resilient supply network on the basis of forming collaborative teams among fault-prone agents. Leveraging the mathematical formalism to describe and model supply networks from Chap. 2, the set of fundamentals for resilience in supply networks from Chap. 3, and the basic strategies to design and operate resilient SNs from Chaps. 4 and 5, the following sections introduce the main components of the Resilience by Teaming framework. Chapters 7 through 9 discuss each component of the Resilience by Teaming framework in detail.