National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

Intera Incorporated

John H Gauthier

Michael Wilson

Nadine E Miner

John P Eddy

Stephen Michael Henry

Lucas Waddell

Matthew John Hoffman

Darryl J Melander

Adam J Pierson

Dennis E Longsine

Geoffry Scott Pankretz

A system and method for designing a physical system using a genetic algorithm includes building a plurality of data structures necessary to build, heal, and verify a plurality of dependency chains; ensuring that multiple dependencies in a respective one of the plurality of dependency chains are represented correctly; removing any dependencies that will be trivially satisfied at random; in response to determining that one or more dependencies is consistent with another dependency, considering one or more combinations of dependencies; and building configurations that satisfy the dependencies and combinations of dependencies by associating the dependencies and combinations of dependencies with selected technology options and recursively specifying and/or revising additional technology options that are consistent with the dependencies or combinations of dependencies, until a configuration is fully specified.

Seeding and healing a Genetic Algorithm to mitigate irreducible complexity

Methods, systems and computer program products to measure system re-taskability are disclosed. The methods, systems and computer program products may be used in the design of a new or redesign of an existing System of Systems (SoS). Systems re-tasking (aka substitutability or stand-in redundancy) is the process of using different systems to substitute for non-operational systems to meet required functionality, or using multi-function systems to fulfill higher-priority tasks. This ability can increase the overall operational availability of the SoS; it can also increase the adaptability and resilience of the SoS to unknown or changing conditions. The disclosed methods, systems and computer products include simulating an SoS over time, replacing systems that become non-operational (or damaged) with systems that can fulfill the same capability in order to maximize the SoS availability.

Methods, systems and computer program products for determining systems re-tasking

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

John H Gauthier