Robustness and adaptability

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Large scale deployment and maintenance of infrastructure is time consuming and expensive. Over time, with changing demands and threats, these artefacts need to be replaced, upgraded or removed. By designing these objects assuming a fixed life or for perpetuity, neglects the reality of mutability of our built environment. Therefore, in locations where there is a great degree of uncertainty, modular structure ought to be considered. 

Pairing flexible infrastructure with pre-planned adaption, opens the door for new forms of flood defence systems. This is in contrast with the currently prominent ad-hoc adaptation control techniques. Through the use of simulation and robust optimisation methods,  it is possible to craft adaptation policies that meet the multitude of values of the concerned parties while maintaining the appropriate level of safety, as well as minimising costs. Through the fusion of scenario based thinking, with generative grammers for plan creation, strategic plans can be designed to satisfy stated objectives. 

Rule Parsing:

(0.x) → 3.0
(0.x) ¬ (3.0) → 5.0, ¬ (5.5 ∪ 3.0) 
(3.x ∩ 4.x) → 5.5, ¬ (5.0) 
(3.x) ¬ (6.0 ∩ 7.0) → 4.0, ¬ (4.5) 
(5.x) ¬ (6.0 ∩ 7.0) → 4.5, ¬ (4.0) 
(5.x) ¬ (7.0) → 6.0, ¬ (6.5 ∪ 4.0) 
(4.x ∩ 5.x) ¬ (7.0) → 6.5, ¬ (6.0) 
(5.x) → 7.0, ¬ (7.3 ∪ 7.7 ∪ 4.0 ∪ 6.0) 
(4.x ∩ 5.x) → 7.3, ¬ (7.7 ∪ 6.0 ∪ 7.0) 
(5.x ∩ 6.x) → 7.7, ¬ (7.3 ∪ 4.0 ∪ 7.0) 

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