Patent ID: 8538899

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media holding executable instructions that when executed on processing logic provide a user with information about the relative performance of a first model with respect to a second model, the media holding one or more instructions for: receiving a user input identifying objectives and constraints for evaluating the performance of a design, where: the design is represented in a baseline version via the first model, the design is represented in a modified version via the second model, a first one of the objectives conflicts with a second one of the objectives such that satisfying the first objective inhibits satisfying the second objective, and the first objective and the second objective have user-specified weightings that indicate the importance of the first objective with respect to the second objective to the user; identifying a measurement space using the objectives and the constraints, the measurement space including objective functions that include the objectives, where: the objective functions are subject to the constraints; executing the first model and the second model over the measurement space to produce a first result for the first model and a second result for the second model; and displaying: the first result produced by executing the first model representing the baseline version of the design, the second result concurrently with the first result, where the second result is produced by executing the second model representing the modified version of the design, and information about the objective functions, where: the displaying allows the user to determine which of the baseline version of the model or the modified version of the model satisfies the objectives subject to the constraints.