SYSTEM FOR MULTI-CRITERIAL DECISION MAKING

An architecture for exploring large design spaces is disclosed. The architecture consists of three main components. A Design Seeker methodically considers and evaluates a very large number of design candidates. A Filter based on a dominance criterion locates a relatively small number of promising candidates that are retained for further analysis. A Viewer allows a designer to examine tradeoff diagrams that present the filtered candidates for evaluation, analysis, and further exploration. The computational load of the Design Seeker may be distributed among a large number of workstations in a client-server computing environment.