ICT environment for multi-disciplinary design and multi-objective optimisation: A case study

Abstract

This paper presents an ICT environment for multi-disciplinary design and multi objective optimisation in which a set of software tools are available for evaluation and approximation of objective functions and for proper control of several optimisation algorithms for multi objective optimisation. The ICT environment provides easy access to the relevant resources in the computer network via a Java based user interface, which can be executed stand-alone or as a Java applet based web client. As an example of application of this environment, some results of a multi objective optimisation study of a blended-wing-body aircraft configuration are shown. © 2002 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.