Innovations and Approaches for Resilient and Adaptive Systems

It was with great pleasure that I accepted the kind invitation from my friends at IGI-Global to play again the role of editor for this series of books collecting the papers from the yearly volumes of IJARAS, the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems, established in 2010 and now in its third year of publication. Reflecting on the work done and rearranging the contents into a coherent new “whole picture” provided me again with the chance to get closer and learn once more from the work of so many and diverse contributors. My message here is first and foremost a chance to express my gratitude to them for sharing their lessons learned with me and the readers of IJARAS, as well as for considering our journal for their papers. Some of these contributions are particularly important to me because of their affinity with my own research interests; others for having provided me with new and broader insight and ideas; still others for their innovative character or for the sheer pleasure I had in being shown familiar concepts and approaches from a different angle. Editing this book allowed me also to try and present those contributions under a new light and hopefully better expose their true innovation potential.

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