In: Optimization in Polymer Processing ISBN # 9781611228182
Editor: A.GasparCunha, J. A.Covas, pp.133©2011 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
* Institute for Polymers and Composites/I3N, University of Minho,
Campus de Azurém, 4800058 Guimarães, Portugal
** Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Pólo II,
Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030290 Coimbra, Portugal and
CEGIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon,
1049101 Lisboa, Portugal
Multidisciplinary design optimization, Engineering design,
MultiObjective Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms
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Real engineering design and optimization problems are complex,
multidisciplinary and difficult to manage within reasonable timings; in some
cases, they can, at least to some extent, be mathematically described by
sophisticated computational tools, which generally require significant
resources. The momentous advances in some scientific and technological
subjects (e.g., computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics), coupled to
the development of highly performing computing techniques (e.g., parallel