Yi Ren March 7 , 2010 1 Active Constraint Identification

We handle design problems with modeling and optimization. Sometimes this procedure is under question due to the lack of knowledge about the design constraints, especially when human evaluation is involved. In this work we look into the problem of indentifying constraints when they are not physically available and can only be identified by trial. The solution is indeed an application of active learning. Let D be the design space and a constraint be a manifold H = 0 in D such that