Enhanced Collaborative Optimization Using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Enhanced collaborative optimization (ECO) is a recently developed multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) method in the family of collaborative optimization (CO). While ECO achieves better optimization performance than its predecessors, its formulation is much more complex and incurs higher computation and communication costs, mainly due to the use of linear models of nonlocal constraints (LMNC). Consequently, ECO is often not the most...