modeFRONTIER
3 User Manual

Table of Contents

1. Installation Procedure

1.1. WINDOWS^TM NT/2000/XP Installation and Uninstallation Procedure.

1.1.1. Installation Procedure on WINDOWS^TM NT/2000/XP
1.1.2. Uninstallation Procedure on WINDOWS^TM NT/2000/XP

1.2. UNIX Installation and Unistallation Procedure

1.2.1. Installation Procedure on Unix Systems
1.2.2. Uninstallation Procedure on Unix Systems

2. Running modeFRONTIER^TM

2.1. Run modeFRONTIER^TM on WINDOWS^TM NT/2000/XP.
2.2. Run modeFRONTIER^TM on Unix systems.
2.3. Command Line Options

3. Licensing Policy

3.1. The License File
3.2. Setting Up The Licensing Process
3.3. Starting the License Manager on WINDOWS^TM (NT/2000/XP)
3.4. Starting the License Manager on UNIX

4. The Work Flow Tab

4.1. The Node Library

4.1.1. DOE Node

4.1.2. Scheduler Node

4.1.3. Input Variable Node

4.1.4. Multiple Input Variables Node

4.1.5. Output Variable Node

4.1.6. Buffer Variable Node

4.1.7. Transfer Variable Node

4.1.8. Objective Node

4.1.9. Objective Graient Node

4.1.10. Objective Target Node

4.1.11. Utility Node

4.1.12. Constraint Node

4.1.13. Constraint Gradient Node

4.1.14. Input File Node

4.1.14.1. Template Input Editor

4.1.15. Output File Node

4.1.15.1. Template Output Editor

4.1.16. Transfer File Node

4.1.17. Support File Node

4.1.18. Script Node

4.1.18.1. Script Editor

4.1.19. Excel Workbook Node

4.1.20. Catia Node

4.1.21. AMESim Node

4.1.22. Workbench Node

4.1.23. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Node

4.1.24. Send Mail Node

4.1.25. OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Node

4.1.26. Matlab Script Node

4.1.27. Synchronizer Node

4.1.27.1. Synchronization Start Node
4.1.27.2. Synchronization End Node

4.1.28. Switch Condition Node

4.1.29. Logic End Node

4.2. The Work Flow Canvas

4.2.1. Working with Nodes
4.2.2. Working with Links
4.2.3. Working with Labels
4.2.4. Working with Subsystems
4.2.5. Setting the Project Properties
4.2.6. General Editing Commands
4.2.7. Appendix on Syntax Rules

4.3. The Logic Log

4.4. The Summary Panel

5. Work Flow Patterns

5.1. Overview

5.1.1. The Simple Work Flow Pattern
5.1.2. The Transfer Function Pattern
5.1.3. The Independent Applications Pattern
5.1.4. The Serial Applications Pattern
5.1.5. The Parallel Applications Pattern
5.1.6. The Conditional Work Flow Pattern
5.1.7. The Robust Design Work Flow Pattern

6. Design of Experiments (DOE)

6.1. Available DOE Algorithms

6.1.1. User Sequence

6.1.2. Random Sequence

6.1.3. Constraint Satisfaction Problem

6.1.4. Sobol Sequence

6.1.5. Latin Hypercube - Monte Carlo

6.1.6. Full Factorial Panel

6.1.7. Reduced Factorial (Fractional Factorial)

6.1.8. Cubic Face Centred

6.1.9. Box-Behnken

6.1.10. Latin Square

6.1.11. Taguchi Matrix

6.1.11.1. 2-levels Matrices
6.1.11.2. 3-levels Matrices
6.1.11.3. 4-levels Matrices
6.1.11.4. 5-levels Matrices

6.1.12. Plackett-Burman

6.1.13. D-Optimal

6.1.14. Cross Validation

6.2. DOE Import/Export of Data

7. Design Schedulers

7.1. Available Schedulers

7.1.1. DOE Sequence

7.1.2. Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm II (MOGA-II)

7.1.3. Simplex

7.1.4. Bounded BFGS (B-BFGS)

7.1.5. Levenberg-Marquardt

7.1.6. Simulated Annealing (SA)

7.1.7. Adaptive Range Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (ARMOGA)

7.1.8. Multi Objective Simulated Annealing (MOSA)

7.1.9. Multivariate Adaptive Crossvalidating Kriging (MACK)

7.1.10. Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II)

7.1.11. Multi Objective Game Theory (MOGT)

7.1.12. Fast Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm (FMOGA)

7.1.13. Fast SIMPLEX (FSIMPLEX)

7.1.14. Evolution Strategies

7.1.14.1. (1+1)-Evolution Strategy
7.1.14.2. Derandomized Evolution Strategy (DES)
7.1.14.3. Multimembered Multiobjective Evolution Strategy (MMES)

7.1.15. Sequential Quadratic Programming (NLPQLP)

7.1.16. Normal-Boundary Intersection Method coupled with NLPQLP (NBI-NLPQLP)

7.2. Genetic Algorithms (GAs)

7.2.1. Optimisation Algorithm
7.2.2. Selection Schemas
7.2.3. Cross-over Operators
7.2.4. GA for Multi Objective Optimisation
7.2.5. Constraints handling methods

7.3. MACK Example

8. Run Project

8.1. Run Project Dialog
8.2. Run Logs Panel
8.3. Project Running Directory

9. Design Space

9.1. Designs Space Explorer

9.1.1. Designs Space Buttons
9.1.2. Designs Space Toolbar
9.1.3. Designs Space Properties

9.2. Designs Table

9.2.1. Import and Export Designs

9.2.1.1. ASCII File (*.des)
9.2.1.2. Binary File (*.ddb)

9.2.2. Add and Edit Designs

9.2.3. Designs Selection

9.2.3.1. Select-unselect designs
9.2.3.2. Mark-unmark designs

9.2.4. Categories

9.2.5. Find Dialog

9.2.6. Remove Designs

9.2.7. Work Tables

9.3. Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)

9.3.1. Create MCDM

9.3.1.1. MCDM Setup panel
9.3.1.2. MCDM Attributes panel
9.3.1.3. MCDM Designs panel
9.3.1.4. MCDM algorithm panel

9.3.2. MCDM Available Algorithms

9.3.2.1. MCDM Linear Algorithm
9.3.2.2. MCDM GA Algorithm
9.3.2.3. Hurwicz criterion
9.3.2.4. Savage Minimax Regret criterion

9.3.3. MCDM Utility

9.4. Response Surfaces Methodology (RSM)

9.4.1. Create RSM

9.4.2. RSM Available Algorithms

9.4.2.1. User Defined Response Surface
9.4.2.2. Single Value Decomposition
9.4.2.3. K-Nearest
9.4.2.4. Kriging
9.4.2.5. Parametric
9.4.2.6. Gaussian Processes
9.4.2.7. Neural Net

9.4.3. Export a synthetic model

9.4.4. Chauvenet Criterion

9.5. Design Space Charts

9.5.1. Design Charts

9.5.1.1. History Chart
9.5.1.2. Multi-History Chart
9.5.1.3. Scatter Chart
9.5.1.4. Parallel Coordinate Chart
9.5.1.5. Scatter 3D Chart
9.5.1.6. Bubble Chart 3D
9.5.1.7. Bubble Chart 4D

9.5.2. Statistic Charts

9.5.2.1. Frequency Chart
9.5.2.2. Student Chart
9.5.2.3. Broken Constraints Chart
9.5.2.4. Correlation 3D Chart
9.5.2.5. Designs Summary Chart
9.5.2.6. Global Student Chart
9.5.2.7. Global Student 3d Chart

9.5.3. RSM Charts

9.5.3.1. RSM Coefficents Chart
9.5.3.2. RSM Residual Chart
9.5.3.3. RSM Distance Chart
9.5.3.4. Explore RSM 3D Chart
9.5.3.5. Surface Graph Types

9.5.4. MCDM Charts

9.5.4.1. Mcdm Utility Chart
9.5.4.2. Mcdm Rank Chart

10.1. Report concepts

10.2. Using the Report Template Editor

10.2.1. Report Template Editor Explained
10.2.2. Available items
10.2.3. Other Items
10.2.4. Composing a Report Template

10.3. Using the report editor

10.3.1. Report editor explained
10.3.2. Available items
10.3.3. Other items
10.3.4. Composing a Report

10.4. Report Generation

10.5. Report Preview

10.6. AutoReport

10.6.1. Why use AutoReport
10.6.2. What you can obtain from AutoReport

10.7. Changes since version 3.0

11. Data Wizard Tutorial

11.1. Data Wizard Tutorial - Excel files

11.1.1. Data Wizard Tutorial - Excel files - Step 1
11.1.2. Data Wizard Tutorial - Excel files - Step 2
11.1.3. Data Wizard Tutorial - Excel files - Step 3
11.1.4. Data Wizard Tutorial - Excel files - Step 4

11.2. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text Files

11.2.1. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text files - Step 1
11.2.2. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text files - Step 2
11.2.3. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text files - Step 3
11.2.4. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text files - Step 4
11.2.5. Data Wizard Tutorial - Text files - Step 5

12. Print & Print to File

12.1. Print

12.2. Print To File

12.2.1. Print To File modeFrontier objects
12.2.2. Print To File Formats
12.2.3. Common options

A. Frontier Menu

B. General Preferences

B.1. IDE Configuration

B.1.1. System

B.2. Work Flow preferences

B.2.1. General
B.2.2. Project Defaults

B.3. Designs Space Preferences

B.4. External Applications

B.4.1. Matlab
B.4.2. Excel
B.4.3. Catia
B.4.4. ANSYS Workbench
B.4.5. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire

B.5. The Print to File Preferences

B.6. The Print Preferences

B.7. The AutoReport Preferecens

C. Editors & choosers

C.1. Color Chooser
C.2. Page Format Chooser
C.3. Font Chooser
C.4. Expression Editor
C.5. The Helper Database Editor
C.6. Table Column Chooser

D. User Expression Syntax

E. Random Sequence

F. Statistical Distributions

F.1. Beta Distribution
F.2. Cauchy Distribution
F.3. Chi Square Distribution
F.4. Exponential Distribution
F.5. Gamma Distribution
F.6. Logistic Distribution
F.7. Lognormal Distribution
F.8. Normal Distribution
F.9. Student Distribution
F.10. Uniform Distribution
F.11. Weibull Distribution

G. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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