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OPTIMUS Base Edition allows users to graphically build workflows. With a few mouse clicks the user identifies his input and output files, input parameters and desired output results, together with the analysis codes and the relationships between the elements of the sequence. The user defines his input parameters and drives the workflow with his ‘virtual experiments’. The Base Edition contains two Design of Experiments methods (Full Factorial and Central Composites Faced) to explore the design space and a Sequential Quadratic Programming optimizer to find an optimum design.
OPTIMUS helps the user in interpreting his results through multiple Response Surface Modeling (RSM) techniques. RSM fits a continuous surface through the discrete results of the ‘experiments’ defined by the user to get more insight into the influence of the design variables on the specified result quantities. RSM is mainly used (a) for screening, where a very limited number of experiments combined with a linear model allows one to differentiate between the important and the less important factors, or (b) for making a surrogate model that replaces the workflow for quick optimizations.
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