• Resilience comes from Latin resilire: "to spring back, start back, rebound, recoil, retreat", and is often intended and defined as the ability to cope with or recover from change. Resilience is one of those general systems attributes that appear to play a central role in several disciplines (for instance, in ecology, business, psychology, industrial safety, microeconomics, computer networks, security, management science, cybernetics, control theory, as well as crisis and disaster management and recovery). My major focus is the resilience in artificial systems, both individually and in a collective dimension. A concept that I recently focused my attention onto is computational antifragility. Some reflections and results are described in the papers "On Resilient Behaviors in Computational Systems and Environments" and "On environments as systemic exoskeletons: Crosscutting optimizers and antifragility enablers".

• Organization comes from ancient Greek organon: "instrument, tool, organ". Organization refers to the emergence of a Whole from a collection of Parts. Organization is a term that assumed specialized meanings in various disciplines. My major focus is organization and emergence in cyber-physical societies. Relevant results in this context have been the definition of fractal social organizations (FSOs), service-oriented communities, and mutual assistance communities. In this talk I provide an introduction to FSOs. In this YouTube channel I collected some videoclips of FSOs. By this I mean that what you see and what you hear there are representations of my FSOs. Among the most recent and noteworthy results related to FSOs I would highlight the experiences reported in the following two papers: Tapping Into the Wells of Social Energy: A Case Study Based on Falls Identification and How Resilient Are Our Societies? Analyses, Models, and Preliminary Results.

• Brief research acta and agenda.
• CV.
• My page on Fractal Social Organizations
• Some videos (and music) of Fractal Social Organizations on YouTube
• My FSO page on ScoopIt
• My Twitter and LinkedIn profiles

ANTIFRAGILE16 3rd Int.l Workshop on Comp.Antifragility & Antifragile Engineering May 24, 2016 https://t.co/FyOylkL1Gh pic.twitter.com/AZRXSF4bs2

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System and Environment may be described as the two "opponents" in a game where each player has to choose a #Behavior pic.twitter.com/TPbGsHYStS

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We sit on the shoulders of giants; but this doesn't mean we should stay silent up there!

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) May 15, 2014

A car is a car if there's gas in its tanks A man is a Man if there's Culture in his mind, Art in his eyes #SapereCondiviso

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) May 17, 2014

"We are greatly frustrated by all our local, static organization of an obsolete yesterday" -- (R. B. Fuller, SYNERGETICS I) -via @SemprePhi

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) May 28, 2014

@EnzoDeFlorio prossima volta!

— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) May 26, 2014

The Internet is a system and any system is an internet.

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) August 4, 2015

Deus Ex Machina? No, Deus Est Machina - Gottfried Wilhelm von #Leibniz

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) July 2, 2014

The big problem of our societies is that Man is still so much more advanced than Men

— Vincenzo De Florio (@EnzoDeFlorio) May 9, 2015