Patent ID: 7921371

Claim:
A method of visualizing and interacting with an interactive parallel coordinate chart representing N objective functions, wherein each objective function is defined by a unique set of variables and at least two of the objective functions include at least one variable in common with another objective function and N is an integer greater than 3, the method comprising: computing a set of Pareto optimal solution points for each of the N objective functions; displaying the interactive parallel coordinate chart with the set of computed Pareto optimal solutions points for each of the N objective functions, wherein the set of computed Pareto optimal solution points include a high constrainer point and a low constrainer point for each of the N objective functions, the interactive parallel coordinate chart includes N parallel axes, each objective function is associated with one of the parallel axes, and the high and low constrainer points for each objective function are disposed on the parallel axes associated with the objective function; receiving user input to vary at least one of the constrainer points of at least one of the N objective functions; and modifying the display of the interactive parallel coordinate chart to indicate each constrainer point variation by the user and an effect on the constrainer points of each of the N objective functions.