Metamodel-assisted optimization is a valuable alternative to handle structural design
optimization procedures, which are usually quite expensive and sometimes even prohibitive …

Purpose Metamodels are widely used to replace simulation models in engineering design
optimization to reduce the computational cost. The purpose of this paper is to develop a …

Computation-intensive design problems are becoming increasingly common in
manufacturing industries. The computation burden is often caused by expensive analysis …

Despite a steady increase in computing power, the complexity of engineering analyses
seems to advance at the same rate. Traditional parametric design analysis is inadequate for …

When designing a complex product, many groups are concurrently developing different
parts or aspects of the product using detailed simulation models. Multidisciplinary design …

Despite advances in computer capacity, the enormous computational cost of running
complex engineering simulations makes it impractical to rely exclusively on simulation for …

Metamodeling techniques have been widely used in engineering design to improve
efficiency in the simulation and optimization of design systems that involve computationally …

While studies in metamodel-assisted optimization predominantly involve continuous
variables, this paper explores the additional presence of categorical data, representing for …

Metamodels are often used as surrogates for expensive high fidelity computational
simulations (eg, finite element analysis). Ensemble of metamodels (EM), which combines …

THE increasing demand of accurate simulations in engineering analysis and design yields
complex simulation codes (eg, finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics) …