Resilient Systems

A resilient system advances despite adversity. Its logic opens a path to manage and implement positive change. By performing research not only with academic but also with business partners, the group of Prof. Edy Portmann designs socio-technical systems for a resilient digital transformation. Resilience in humans and its artifacts draws on the incompatibility principle, which reveals a need for fuzziness to grasp and cope with reality. World is imprecise, mathematics precise, and fuzzy logic makes both fit. Thus, the group does not restrict to fixed disciplines but expands upon them with fuzzy design-science research.

Coming from a multitude of disciplines, the group is comprised of highly-qualified and super-motivated researchers. Within, graduate students work on their projects during a 3- to 4-year period, whilst either working at Human-IST or in their professional environment. They carry out research at our partners site but meet regularly to interact for the benefit of their research projects.