How Resilient Are Our Societies? Analyses, Models, and Preliminary Results

TL;DR

This paper examines the fragility of traditional social organizations in modern complex environments and proposes a refined fractal social organization model to enhance societal resilience, supported by multi-agent system simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a refined fractal social organization model tailored for resilient cyber-physical societies, addressing limitations of traditional social structures.

Findings

The refined model improves societal resilience in simulations.

Traditional organizations are fragile under modern complex demands.

Multi-agent simulations support the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Abstract

Traditional social organizations such as those for the management of healthcare and civil defence are the result of designs and realizations that matched well with an operational context considerably different from the one we are experiencing today: A simpler world, characterized by a greater amount of resources to match less users producing lower peaks of requests. The new context reveals all the fragility of our societies: unmanageability is just around the corner unless we do not complement the "old recipes" with smarter forms of social organization. Here we analyze this problem and propose a refinement to our fractal social organizations as a model for resilient cyber-physical societies. Evidence to our claims is provided by simulating our model in terms of multi-agent systems.