Engineering Commons^™

This presentation considers three questions. (1) What is a research methodology as opposed to any old methodology and what is the role of research methodologies in scholarship? (2) In what ways do and in what ways can decision analysis scholars incorporate common research methodologies? (3) How and why might we think of decision analysis itself as a research methodology?

This e-Letter, available at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6379/986/tab-e-letters, responds to the Science special issue on resilience. We argue that it in order to move from understanding resilience toward improving it, it is useful to incorporate not just the systems perspective, but also that of network science.