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Engineering design often requires the optimisation of multiple objectives, and becomes significantly more difficult and time consuming when the response surfaces are multimodal, rather than unimodal. A surrogate model, also known as a metamodel, can be used to replace expensive …

Quality of life (QOL) is an increasingly popular outcome measure in medical and mental health research. Studies of determinants of QOL have primarily focused on variables in the physiological and psychological realms. If quality of life is to remain a useful construct, it needs …