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graceful extensibility: a standalone construct

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Resilience engineering

a system's capacity to stretch its performance when events push it near the edge of its normal competence, the opposite of brittleness.

In resilience engineering, graceful extensibility refers to a system's capacity to stretch its performance when events push it near the edge of its normal competence, the opposite of brittleness. This meaning comes from Woods (2018) in Environment Systems and Decisions.[1]

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References

Woods, D. D. (2018). The theory of graceful extensibility: basic rules that govern adaptive systems. Environment Systems and Decisions, 38(4), 433-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-018-9708-3

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