Introduction

KADMOS (Knowledge- and graph-based Agile Design with Multidisciplinary Optimization System) is a new software system which is currently being developed in the AGILE innovation project. It aims at increasing the agility of aircraft design teams that perform multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). By increased agility, an MDO-based development process is meant that better fits the iterative nature of performing aircraft design. KADMOS has been developed on the notion that performing MDO is analogous to performing music with a large symphonic orchestra, however, in the MDO domain a music notation system is missing, which prevents us from composing large, complex pieces.

Repository Structure

The repository is structured as follows:

• dist/

  contains copies of all major distributions of KADMOS

• docs/

  contains the documentation

• examples/

  contains two example knowlegde bases and scripts

• kadmos/

  • cmdows

    contains tools for interacting with CMDOWS files

  • external

    contains mainly third party scripts used at various parts in the code

  • graph

    contains the main graph-based logic for KADMOS

  • interface

    contains a script for launching a web-based interface for accessing a few KADMOS functionalities

  • knowledgebase

    contains the definition of a knowledge base model

  • utilities

    contains several helper functions

  • vistoms

    contains source files for the VISTOMS visualizations

• license.md

  contains the license

• readme.md

  contains this document

Credits

KADMOS is currently being developed at TU Delft by Imco van Gent as an open-source project. KADMOS can still be considered as an early beta and is subjected to change. Ideas and improvement suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Changelog

0.8.1 (17/04/2018)

• Included first stable version of interactive VISTOMS
• Detailed adjustments to match KADMOS and CMDOWS 0.8

0.8.0 (29/03/2018)

• Matching KADMOS with CMDOWS 0.8
• Inclusion of distributed architectures CO and BLISS-2000
• Added SuperSonic Business Jet (SSBJ) example

0.7.7 (05/02/2017)

• Additional CMDOWS functions
• Bug fixes
• Pip install for latest KE-chain 2.7

0.7.6 (21/12/2017)

• Further matching of KADMOS with CMDOWS 0.7
• General improvements, enhancements and bug fixes
• Deprecated KnowledgeBase class and enhanced CMDOWS load to handle XML I/Os
• Improved MDAO Process Graph determination to account for data dependencies
• Extended CMDOWS file operations library
• Improved determination of function hierarchy
• Added function to automatically determine an optimal function order
• Updated all code to work with NetworkX 2.0

0.7 (08/09/2017)

• Matching KADMOS with CMDOWS 0.7
• General improvements and enhancements

0.6

• Skipped

0.5 (31/05/17)

• First public release of KADMOS