Optimization plays an important role in design exploration. It’s the algorithmic backbone of the computational search process. It’s what allows hundreds of thousands of design configurations to be explored in just a matter of seconds.

Experimenting with concepts from modular product design and multi-objective optimization to benefit people living in poverty by Wasley, N. S., Lewis, P. K., Mattson, C. A., and Ottosson, H. J., Development Engineering, 2017, Vol. 2

Optimization of Excess System Capability for Increased Evolvability by Watson, J. D., Allen, J. D, Mattson, C. A., and Ferguson, S. M., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2016, Vol. 53., No. 6

Modular Product Optimization to Alleviate Poverty: An Irrigation Pump Case Study by Lewis, P. K., Mattson C. A., and Wood, C. D., International Journal of Product Development, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 1