Conference name: Special Session on Computationally Efficient
Simulation-Driven Engineering Design Optimization and Modeling - SDDOM
2012

In conjunction with the 2nd International COnference on Simulation and
Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications


Venue: Rome, Italy


Conference date: 28-31 July, 2012

Co-chairs

Slawomir Koziel
Reykjavik University
Iceland

Leifur Leifsson
Reykjavik University
Iceland


SCOPE

The use of computer simulations is ubiquitous in contemporary
engineering design. High-fidelity numerical models are very accurate
but, at the same time, computationally expensive and inherently noisy.
Depending on the structure complexity and required accuracy level,
evaluation time for a single design can take hours, days or even
weeks. Therefore, direct use of high-fidelity simulations in the
optimization loop may be prohibitive. On the other hand, in many
cases, simulation-driven design is the only option due to complexity
of the structure under consideration and the lack of analytical models
and/or systematic design procedures. In such instances,
computationally efficient design can be performed using surrogate-
based optimization (SBO), where the high-fidelity model is replaced by
its computationally cheap but still reasonably accurate
representation, a surrogate. The surrogate model can be created using
various approximation schemes. The surrogate can also be knowledge-
based, i.e., constructed from the low-fidelity model that enjoys the
same physics as the high-fidelity one. One of the important goals of
SBO procedures is to reduce the number of high-fidelity model
evaluations, and, consequently, to lower the overall optimization
cost. The special session will focus on reviewing state-of-the-art and
promoting new directions of surrogate-based and knowledge-based design
optimization and modeling methodologies exploiting computer
simulations as well as their applications in various fields of science
and engineering.
This is the second edition of the SDDOM. The first edition, SDDOM
2011, took place during SIMULTECH 2011 and attracted a large number of
high-quality speakers.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Computationally Efficient Optimization of Expensive Objective
Functions
* Simulation-driven Design
* Function-approximation-based and Physics-based Surrogate Models
* Surrogate-based Modeling and Optimization
* Multi-fidelity and Variable-resolution Analysis and Optimization
* Knowledge-based Methods
* Response Surface Approximation, Space Mapping, and Response
Correction Techniques
* Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization
* Adjoint Sensitivities in Simulation-driven Design
* Software Architectures for Optimization-oriented Design
* Application Case Studies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: May 28, 2012
Authors Notification: June 13, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: June 22, 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in a
special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN
reference and on CD-ROM support - and submitted for indexation by
Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC,
DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/
DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://
www.crossref.org/).

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

e-mail: simultech.secretariat (AT) insticc (DOT) org
Website:http://www.simultech.org/SDDOM.aspx