Improved coordination in nonhierarchic system optimization

An improved coordination procedure for the optimization of nonhierarchic systems by decomposition into reduced subspaces is presented. A subspace coordination procedure based on sequential global approximation is extended to include second-order information. This second-order global approximation is formed using information obtained during subspace optimizations. The use of second-order information in the coordination procedure results in improved convergence for nonhierarchic system optimization as compared with the authors' earlier studies using a first-order coordination procedure