On the GUI level an EVE and its pertaining evaluation instances are represented as a spreadsheet with direct access to plot tools, DoE generation, and RSM generation (Figure 8.14). Furthermore, new evaluations can be requested or removed from the list of existing ones, and all kinds of editing tasks with respect to the definition of control and response variables can be performed.
Figure 8.14:
EVE spreadsheet-GUI provides a convenient interface for
initiating new evaluations and experiments,
generate one-dimensional plots, and build and view response surface models.
Figure 8.15 shows the GUI for exploring an RSM built from data points in an EVE object.
Figure 8.15:
Graphical user interface for viewing response surface models.
One or two parameters can be selected as plot axes, the remaining
ones are parameters of the plot, used to interactively explore
the model.
One-dimensional and two-dimensional cuts
of the N-dimensional parameter space can be selected and
displayed using the gnuplot tool (Figure 8.16) or
any other plot program
.
Figure 8.16:
Two-dimensional plot of response surface model.