Continuation of Research on an Optimization-Based Methodology for Computer-Aided Design

工程设计的复杂性已经增加到交互计算已成为设计周期中不可或缺的一部分。即使有了计算机，当涉及到许多相互依赖的参数的选择时，设计也可能非常困难。这是一项继续研究通用的、基于优化的计算机辅助设计方法的建议，该方法将补充并最终取代许多启发式设计技术。这样的方法论是可能的，因为大量的工程设计问题可以转录成非常少量的标准、半无限优化问题的形式，并且因为新的系统理论结果促进了工程设计中优化的使用。该提案分为三个部分：第一部分涉及工程设计的优化算法，第二部分涉及面向优化的系统理论，第三部分涉及为基于优化的计算机辅助设计提供适当环境的交互式软件系统的开发。

Engineering design has increased in complexity to the point where interactive computing has become an indispensable part of the design cycle. Even with computers, design can be very difficult when it involves the selection of many interdependent parameters. this is a proposal for continued research on a general purpose, optimization- based computer-aided-design methodology which will supplement and eventually displace many heuristic design techniques. Such a methodology is possible because a large variety of engineering design problems are transcribable into the form of a very small number of standard, semi-infinite optimization problems and because new system theoretic results facilitate the use of optimization in engineering design. The proposal is in three parts: the first deals with optimization algorithms for engineering design, the second one deals with topics in optimization-oriented system theory, and the third one deals with the development of an interactive software system which provides an appropriate environment for optimization-based computer- aided design.