Assessing, Measuring and Benchmarking Resilience
(AMBER)

EU FP7 ICT Coordination Action 216295

January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2009

• University of Coimbra (Portugal), coordinator,
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary),
• Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden),
• City University London (UK),
• University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK),
• University of Florence (Italy),
• ResilTech S. R. L. (Italy)

Project aim:

AMBER is a FP7 Coordination Action. It will bring together leading research teams on assessment, measurement, and benchmarking of resilience in computer systems in order to coordinate the effort of defining metrics and benchmarks for comparative evaluation of the resilience of computer systems and components. The consortium includes seven partners (universities of Coimbra, Budapest, City, Chalmers, Florence, and Newcastle and the company ResilTech) from five EU countries, which constitute core research groups on resilience assessment, and relies on a large and representative Advisory Board that constitutes the necessary link between the coordination action and the influential parties in industry and government, thus ensuring that the views of major stake-holders are being taken into account by the AMBER Consortium.

AMBER aims to coordinate the study of resilience measuring and benchmarking in computer systems and components, fostering European research in order to address the big challenges on resilience assessment posed by current and forthcoming computer systems and computer-based infrastructures.

Key objectives of AMBER are:

• build consensus on common understanding, methodologies and practices for resilience assessment;
• integrate and coordinate European research and practice on resilience assessment;
• establish a resilience assessment and benchmarking research forum through AMBER web portal;
• build and maintain a repository to analyse and share resilience measurement data, including field data on failures in real systems and experiment results;
• foster the effective transfer of resilience assessment best practices to European industry, namely contribute to the acceptance and adoption of resilience benchmarks by industry;
• promote the proposal of standards for resilience assessment and benchmarking;
• define a research agenda on the key topics for enhancing and advancing European research and industry on assessing resilience and benchmarking resiliency of systems and infrastructures.

http://amber.dei.uc.pt/

István Majzik, associate professor