The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers’ components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components...

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but...

It’s like taking a continuous curve and breaking it into pieces. Otherwise, the form is too complex to analyze.

These are all problems in which a shape needs to be modified. In the case of solder, you are talking about what shape a droplet should take ‘ – the boundaries of the droplet are constantly...