High penetration of selfish Home Energy Management Systems (HEMSs) causes adverse
effects such as rebound peaks, instabilities, and contingencies in different regions of …

Optimal design of launch vehicles is a complex problem which requires the use of specific
techniques called Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) methods. MDO …

Analytical target cascading is a method for design optimization of hierarchical, multilevel
systems. A quadratic penalty relaxation of the system consistency constraints is used to …

The rapid introduction of sophisticated computers, services, telecommunications systems,
and manufacturing systems has caused a major shift in the way people use and work with …

Being one of the most important problems in machining, chatter vibrations must be avoided
as they result in high cutting forces, poor surface finish, and unacceptable part quality. Using …

The solution of complex system design problems using decomposition-based optimization
methods requires determination of appropriate problem partitioning and coordination …

ANALYTICAL target cascading (ATC)[1–5] is a hierarchical, multilevel, multidisciplinary
methodology for large-scale system design. In ATC, a large-scale system is assumed to be …

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

Complex engineering design problems are often decomposed into a set of interdependent,
distributed subproblems that are solved by domain-specific experts. These experts must …

Several decomposition methods have been proposed for the distributed optimal design of
quasi-separable problems encountered in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) …