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| Preface | |
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| Parameter Space Investigation Method and Its Applications | |
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| Multicriteria Optimization and Parameter Space Investigation Method | |
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| Generalized Formulation of Multicriteria Optimization Problems | |
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| Systematic Search in Multidimensional Domains by Using Uniformly Distributed Sequences | |
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| The Parameter Space Investigation Method is a Tool for Formulating and Solving Engineering Optimization Problems | |
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| Some Possibilities of the PSI Method | |
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| Approximation of Feasible Solution and Pareto Optimal Sets | |
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| Several Examples of Multicriteria Design | |
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| Examples 1 and 2: Metal Cutting Machine Tools and Their Units | |
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| Example 3: Automotive Valve Gear Design | |
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| Example 4: The Rear Axle Housing for a Truck | |
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| Example 5: Improving the Truck Frame Prototype | |
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| Decomposition and Aggregation of Large-scale Systems | |
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| Construction of Hierarchically Consistent Solutions | |
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| Example: Design of a Car for Shock Protection | |
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| Multicriteria Identification | |
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| Adequacy of Mathematical Models | |
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| Multicriteria Identification and Operational Development | |
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| Example 1: Multicriteria Identification of Characteristics of a Spindle Unit and Its Operational Development | |
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| Example 2: Operational Development of a Vehicle | |
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| Optimal Design and Multicriteria Control | |
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| A New Approach to Solving the Problem | |
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| Example 1: Multistage Axial Flow Compressor for an Aircraft Engine | |
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| Example 2: Multicriteria Optimization of the Design of a Robot | |
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| Addendum | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| MOVI Software 1.0 Package User's Manual | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General Description of the MOVI 1.0 Software Package | |
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| Unit I: Entering New Data | |
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| Unit II: Probing the Parameter Space | |
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| Unit III: Check for the Fulfillment of Functional Constraints | |
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| Unit IV: Evaluation of Criteria | |
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| Unit V: Compiling the Test Table | |
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| Unit VI: Definition of Criteria Constraints. Generation of a Feasible Set | |
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| Unit VII: Generation of the Pareto Optimal Set | |
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| Unit VIII: Analyzing the Results. Constructing Tables of Results, Histograms, and Graphs | |
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| Unit IX: Determining the Best Solution | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Contents of the Distribution Package | |
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| Installing the MOVI 1.0 Software Package and Getting Started | |
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| Installing the MOVI 1.0 Software Package | |
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| Adding the "Oscillator" and "Oscillator 1" Test Problems | |
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| How to Start the MOVI 1.0 Program | |
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| Uninstalling MOVI | |
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| Interface Library Development Manual | |
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| Purpose of the Interface Library: Preliminary Information | |
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| Interface Library Development | |
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| Interface Library Example | |
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| Database Manager User's Manual | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Starting the Program and Description of the Interface | |
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| Editing the Problem Name, Folder, and Interface Library | |
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| Database Integrity Check | |
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| Adding and Deleting a Problem | |
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| MOVI 1.0 Operation | |
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| Main Menu Item Data Input | |
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| Main Menu Item Check of Primary Constraints | |
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| Main Menu Item Test Tables | |
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| Main Menu Item Tables | |
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| Main Menu Item Historgrams and Graphs | |
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| Main Menu Item Perform One Test | |
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| Main Menu Item Combine Solutions | |
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| Main Menu Item Service | |
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| Printing Reports | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Exercise A. Construction of a Full Test Table (Test Table I). Dialogues with the Computer. Truncated Test Table. Table of Criteria Failures | |
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| Exercise B. Truncated Test Table. Table of Functional Failures: Test Table II | |
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| Exercise C. Analysis of Tables of Criteria and Design Variables. Histograms. Graphs of Criteria versus Design Variables | |
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| Exercise D. Construction of the Combined Feasible and Pareto Optimal Sets. The Menu Item Combine Solutions | |
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| Examples of Points of the LP[subscript tau] Sequence | |
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| Problem Files | |