Adaptability in Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS)

System complexity continues to escalate with the rapid advances of technology and research in resilience engineering is of great interest as the result of managing such complexity. In order to fully understand resilience engineering and it's supporting elements, a resilience framework is proposed outlining supporting elemental definitions and their complementary roles. The challenge in conducting decision-making can be assisted by quantifying the elements of the resilience framework to make informed decisions. This paper outlines a resilience framework and focuses on adaptability as a key resilience characteristic.