Add term resilience

[stap-m]

Description of the issue

For the study factsheet descriptors we need to add the term resilience.
Use case: Describing a scenario study that deals with / is about the resilience of the energy system.

See also: OpenEnergyPlatform/oekg#19

Ideas of solution

A kind of specifically dependent continuant that inheres in energy system.

Workflow checklist

• I discussed the issue with someone else than me before working on a solution
• I already read the latest version of the workflow for this repository
• The goal of this ontology is clear to me

I am aware that

• every entry in the ontology should have a definition
• classes should arise from concepts rather than from words

[stap-m]

Analogical to flexibility in #1549, resilience could be classified as disposition of an (energy?) system.

[l-emele]

I see resiliance more as a quality. What about: Resiliance is a quality of an energy system to withstand external shocks.?

[stap-m]

Your proposed definition sounds to me like a kind of capability of a system, i.e. to withstand external shocks that are events that might or might not occur. Therefore I proposed disposition.
Here two examples for dispositions from "Building Ontologies with BFO", Arp et.al. 2015, p. 102:

• the disposition of a piece of stretched elastic to contract when released
• the disposition of a sheet of glass to break if struck with a sledgehammer moving at 100 feet per second

[l-emele]

After reading again the elucidations of quality and disposition I am fine with making resilience.

What caused the confusion to me is that BFO-quality is something different than the everyday meaning of quality.

[stap-m]

In this paper of the IEEE task force, there is a definition proposal for the resilience of power systems

“Power system resilience is the ability to limit the extent, system impact, and duration of degradation in order to sustain critical
services following an extraordinary event. Key enablers for a resilient response include the capacity to anticipate, absorb, rapidly recover from, adapt to, and learn from such an event. Extraordinary events for the power system may be caused by natural threats, accidents, equipment failures, and deliberate physical or cyber-attacks.”

It is based on a more general and appearently widely used definition for ecological systems by Holling¹:

“the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, and feedbacks – to have the same identity”

I think, these are good definition sources on with we can build an OEO definiton.
We could even distinguish between (system) resilience and energy / power system resilience.

Footnotes

1. Source: B. Walker, C. S. Holling, S. R. Carpenter, and A. Kinzig, “Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social–ecological systems,” Ecol. Soc., vol. 9, no. 2, 2004, Art. no. 5 ↩

[stap-m]

To proceed with this issue and stick to the cited definitions, I propose the following:

• resilience:
  • Def: Resilience is a disposition of a system that represents the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, and feedbacks.
  • definition source: B. Walker, C. S. Holling, S. R. Carpenter, and A. Kinzig, “Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social–ecological systems,” Ecol. Soc., vol. 9, no. 2, 2004, Art. no. 5
• power system resilience:
  • Def: Power system resilience is the resilience of a power system that represents the ability to limit the extent, system impact, and duration of degradation in order to sustain critical services following an extraordinary event.
  • rdfs:comment: Key enablers for a resilient response include the capacity to anticipate, absorb, rapidly recover from, adapt to, and learn from such an event. Extraordinary events for the power system may be caused by natural threats, accidents, equipment failures, and deliberate physical or cyber-attacks.
  • def source: A. M. Stanković et al., "Methods for Analysis and Quantification of Power System Resilience," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 4774-4787, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3212688.

[l-emele]

I am fine with those two proposal. However, if we add power system resilience, we should also add power system. Else we have a quality without a bearer.

[stap-m]

For a first introduction and derived from fuel supply system: A power system is an energy system covering the distribution of electrical energy. ?

[l-emele]

I think, a power system is more than just distribution. What about: A power system is an energy system covering the generation, transportation, distribution and consumption of electrical energy.

[stap-m]

I am fine with that.
Ready for implementation, I guess. @viktorwichern can you do that?