AIAA 2000-4718 Analytical and Computational Properties of Distributed Approaches to MDO
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Historical evolution of engineering disciplines and the complexity of the MDO problem suggest that disciplinary autonomy is a desirable goal in formulating and solving MDO problems. We examine the notion of disciplinary autonomy and discuss the analytical properties of three approaches to formulating and solving MDO problems that achieve varying degrees of autonomy by distributing the problem along disciplinary lines. Two of the approaches—Optimization by Linear Decomposition and Collaborative Optimization—are based on bilevel optimization and reflect what we call a structural perspective. The third approach, Distributed Analysis Optimization, is a single-level approach that arises from what we call an algorithmic perspective. The main conclusion of the paper is that disciplinary autonomy may come at a price: in the bilevel approaches, the system-level constraints introduced to relax the interdisciplinary coupling and enable disciplinary autonomy can cause analytical and computational difficulties for optimization algorithms. The singlelevel alternative we discuss affords a more limited degree of autonomy than that of the bilevel approaches, but without the computational difficulties of the bilevel methods.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000