Patent ID: 7991617

Claim:
An optimum design management apparatus that analyzes response variable values from groups of predictor variable values, and performs optimization using the analysis result, comprising: a predictor variable transmission unit that transmits, using a computer, first groups of predictor variable values to be used for the analysis to a calculation node, and designates the analysis; a response variable reception unit that receives, using the computer, response variable values of the analysis result from the calculation node; a response surface calculation unit that calculates, using the computer, at least one response surface from the first groups of predictor variable values and the received response variable values; an optimization calculation unit that calculates, using the computer, second groups of predictor variable values from the response variable values by using the at least one response surface in order that the second groups of predictor variable values come close to an optimization condition; and an analysis result substitution unit that calculates, using the computer, similarities between the first groups of predictor variable values and the second groups of predictor variable values respectively, and wherein when one of the calculated similarities fulfills a condition, the optimization calculation unit determines, as the first groups of predictor variable values for a next analysis, groups of predictor variable values corresponding to the calculated similarities except for the one of the calculated similarities, and the predictor variable transmission unit transmits the first groups of predictor variable values for the next analysis to the calculation node.