| Abstrakt: |
The classical nonlinear programming problem formulation is often too rigid to adequately describe an engineering design problem. Recently a design methodology was developed, based on a problem formulation featuring three types of specifications: hard constraints, soft constraints and objectives. The corresponding mathematical problem is a sequence of constrained ‘minimax’ optimization problems. Such minimax problems highlight the competition between various specifications and facilitate tradeoff exploration. Accordingly, the new methodology emphasizes designer's intuition and man-machine interaction. |
