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“methodology for the design of systems in which strong—and usually conflicting—interaction between disciplines motivates designers to manipulate simultaneously variables in several disciplines” Two approaches: 1 Single-level: one optimizer applied to whole design — size and complexity typically make this impractical 2 Multiple-level: analyse and optimize by sub-system, integration via system-level optimizer Here focus on one sub-system: structural optimization Crick et al. (CS/ME, Bath UK) Services for Optimization September 2008 2 / 18 What is Multi-disciplinary Optimization? “methodology for the design of systems in which strong—and usually conflicting—interaction between disciplines motivates designers to manipulat