VMDO 2014 - Symposium on Validation Methods for Design Optimization

We invite novel research contributions related to the broad and general field of multi-disciplinary design optimization (MDO), which deals with solving engineering design problems involving multiple disciplines possibly associated with different (sub)systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
MDO architectures
Decomposition and coordination methods for MDO
MDO applications, case and benchmarking studies
MDO problem formulations and methods for cooperating systems with both individual and collective objectives
MDO problem formulations and methods for complex engineered systems
Numerical optimization algorithms for MDO
Parallel and high-performance computing in MDO
MDO methods for design and control interactions
MDO under uncertainty
Multi-fidelity and surrogate modeling for MDO