Dakota A Multilevel Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Design Optimization Parameter Estimation Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis: Version 6.14 Theory Manual.
By Brian M. Adams, Mohamed S. Ebeida, Michael S. Eldred, John D. Jakeman, Laura Painton Swiler, John Stephens, Dena M. Vigil, Timothy M. Wildey, W. Bohnhoff, John P. Eddy and 4 more. 2020
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The Dakota (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications) toolkit provides a flexible and extensible interface between simulation codes and iterative analysis methods. Dakota contains algorithms for optimization with gradient and nongradient-based methods; uncertainty quantification with sampling, reliability, and stochastic expansion methods; parameter estimation with nonlinear least squares methods; and sensitivity/variance analysis with design of experiments and parameter study methods. These capabilities may be used on their own or as components within advanced strategies such as surrogate-based optimization, mixed integer nonlinear programming, or optimization under uncertainty. By employing object-oriented design to implement abstractions of the key components required for iterative systems analyses, the Dakota toolkit provides a flexible and extensible problem-solving environment for design and performance analysis of computational models on high performance computers. This report serves as a theoretical manual for selected algorithms implemented within the Dakota software. It is not intended as a comprehensive theoretical treatment, since a number of existing texts cover general optimization theory, statistical analysis, and other introductory topics. Rather, this manual is intended to summarize a set of Dakota-related research publications in the areas of surrogate-based optimization, uncertainty quantification, and optimization under uncertainty that provide the foundation for many of Dakota’s iterative analysis capabilities. Dakota Version 6.1 Theory Manual generated on November 7, 2014
Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability
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Citations in the corpus
- Assessment of parametric uncertainty for groundwater reactive transport modeling (2014, methodology): “…are listed in Table 1, and they are almost identical to those obtained using the global optimization methods of Shuffled complex evolution (SCE-UA) [Duan et al., 1992, 1993, 1994] and Multistart Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) method implemented in DAKOTA [Adams et al., 2010] (Table 1).”
- Structural and electronic transformation in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene (2017, methodology): “The fit has been performed with the non-linear minimizer provided by DAKOTA code [51].”