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Systemic Interdependencies

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The increasing complexification of our society is creating and/or tightening interdependences among all its component systems; it is thus crucial to understand the consequences of such an evolution. We will discuss how such interdependences can lead to systemic risk, i.e., to the emergence of unforeseen behavior that could have not been predicted from the understanding of the single systems. In this chapter we will pose some examples of systemic interdependences and introduce some tools and models that allow to understand their possible consequences in sociotechnical systems; we will then revise some reference literature with particular attention to complex network approaches.

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Acknowledgments

AS and GD acknowledge the support from EU HOME/2013/CIPS/AG/4000005013 project CI2C. AS acknowledges the support from CNR-PNR National Project “Crisis-Lab”, from EU FET project DOLFINS nr 640772 and EU FET project MULTIPLEX nr.317532. GD acknowleges the support from FP7 project n.261788 AFTER. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessary reflect the views of the funding parties.

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  1. ENEA, Centro Ricerche Casaccia, Rome, Italy

    Gregorio D’Agostino

  2. CNR-ISC, UoS “Sapienza”, Physics dept., Edificio Fermi, room 104, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy

    Antonio Scala

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  1. Cybr-HumnSysPrg,DivofInfrmtn&Intlgntsyst, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    William Sims Bainbridge

  2. NatlSciFondtn&NatlNanotechnlgyInitiative, Arlington, Virginia, USA

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D’Agostino, G., Scala, A. (2016). Systemic Interdependencies. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_14

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