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iSIGHT Library The listing below of iSIGHT documents and technical papers represents a range of resources available to the engineer on the topics of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Approximations, DOE and Quality Engineering Methods. Documents linked are saved as PDF or HTML files and may be examined online or downloaded.   FIPER Library The FIPER Library contains a variety of materials, white papers and abstracts that have been published about the FIPER project and similar initiatives. To download any of these materials click on the title below, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to review and print any of the following PDF documents. Click here if you would like to view a list of other relevant papers they may be found online.

iSIGHT Materials: Title Source Multidisciplinary Design Optimization The Synaps Pointer Optimization Engine Proceedings of DETC/CIE:Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Sept. 29- Oct. 2, 2002 Montreal CIE-34403 Interdigitation for Effective Design Space Exploration Using iSIGHT Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 111-126 Bi-Level Integrated System Synthesis with Response Surfaces Presented at the 40th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 12-15, 1999 BLISS/S: A New Method for Two-Level Structural Optimization Presented at the 40th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Strucutral Dynamics and Materials Conference, St. Louis, MO April 12-15, 1999 Inital Results of An MDO Method Evaluation Study Presented at the 7th AIAA/NASA/USAF/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, St. Louis, September, 1998 Evaluation of Methods for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), Phase I NASA/CR-1998-208716, September 1998 Design of Experiments, Quality Methods and Approximations Simulation-Based Design in the Face of Uncertainty JANNAF Interagency Propulsion Committee, 2nd Modeling and Simulation Subcommittee, Destin, Florida Probabilistic Design: Optimizing for Six Sigma Quality 43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 4th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Forum, Denver, Colorado, AIAA-2002-1471 Addressing Uncertainty using the iSIGHT Probabilistic Design Environment Presented at the First Annual Probabilistic Methods Conference, Newport Beach, CA, June 18-19, 2001 A Multi-Stage, Parallel Implementation of Probabilistic Design Optimization in an MDO Framework Presented at the 8th AIAA/NASA/USAF/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Long Beach, CA, AIAA-2000-4805 Variable Complexity Structural Reliability Analysis for Efficient Reliability-Based Design Optimization Presented at the 40th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Strucutral Dynamics and Materials Conference, St. Louis, MO April 12-15, 1999 Flexible Implementation of Approximation Concepts in an MDO Framework Presented at the 7th AIAA/NASA/USAF/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, St. Louis, September, 1998 Design of Experiments Based Response Surface Models for Design Optimization Note that this is an HTML page and does not require Acrobat) Presented at the39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Long Beach, California, April 20-23, 1998 Back to top FIPER Materials: Title Author Source FIPER Overview: Developing Innovative Design Technologies For Broad Economic Benefit A Distributed, Component-Based Integration Environment For Multidisciplinary Optimal and Quality Design Brett A. Wujek Patrick N. Koch Mark McMillan Wei-Shan Chiang 9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Atlanta, GA, September 4, 2002 A Federated Intelligent Product EnviRonment Peter J. Röhl Raymond M. Kolonay Rohinton K. Irani M ichael Sobolewski Kevin Kao Michael W. Bailey 8th AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Long Beach, CA, September 6-8, 2000 A Cost Estimation Tool Integrated into FIPER David Koonce Robert Judd Thomas Keyser Michael W. Bailey 4th International Conference on Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing, Melbourne, Australia, August 15-17, 2000 FIPER, An Intelligent System for the Optimal Design of Highly Engineered Products Michael W. Bailey Willaim H. VerDuin NIST Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop., Gaithersburg, MD, August 14-16, 2000 A Workflow Paradigm for Flexible Design Process Configuration in FIPER Brett Wujek Patrick Koch Wei-Shan Chiang 8th AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Long Beach, CA, September 6-8, 2000 Combustion Sub System Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Using a Network Centric Approach Charles Seeley Venkat Tangirila Raymond M. Kolonay Michael Bailey XV ISABE Conference, September 2-7, 2001, Bangalore, India Turbine Blade Probabilistic Analysis Using Semi-analytical Sensitivities Scott Burton Raymond M. Kolonay Mustafa Dindar Proceedings AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference and Exhibit, 42nd, Paper No. AIAA-2001-1613 (2001). Intelligent Compressor Design In A Network-Centric Environment Peter J. Röhl Raymond M. Kolonay Michael J. Paradis Michael W. Bailey   Federated Model Processing Using Web services. A Joint Technology Solution Engineous Software and IBM Corporation Members of the Engineous/IBM solution team contributing to this document are: • Engineous – Wei-Shan Chiang, Mark McMillan • IBM – Dave Coffman, Lore Eisenstaedt, Keith Wright Members of the IBM team contributing to the solution creation are Amaresh Rajasekharan and Back to top