The use of optimization in a simulation based design environment has become a common trend in industry today. Computer simulation tools are common place in many engineering disciplines, providing the designers with tools to evaluate a design’s performance without building a physical prototype. This has triggered the development of optimization techniques suitable for dealing with such simulatio...

Multifidelity approximate Bayesian computation (MF-ABC) is a likelihood-free technique for parameter inference that exploits model approximations to significantly increase the speed of ABC algorithms [T. P. Prescott and R. E. Baker, SIAM/ASA J. Uncertain. Quantif., 8 (2020), pp. 114--138]. Previous work has considered MF-ABC only in context rejection sampling, which does not explore space parti...

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is typically used to assess the reliability of material's lifetime under desired stress levels. Recent advances in material engineering have made a variety alternatives readily available. To identify most reliable setting with efficient experimental design, sequential test planning strategy preferred. guarantee tractable statistical mechanism for information colle...