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her/his creativity and intuition. This is particularly disadvantageous when a
variety of alternative combinations of disciplines and system configurations
are capable of satisfying the objective function. To encourage creativity and
intuitiveness, in producing efficient, better, and novel designs, the core of
the problem is abstracted using causal word graphs. The ensuing transforma-
tion to bond graphs provide a solid analytical platform for further mani-
pulations including possible expansions, inclusion of nonlinearities, and
extraction of variables and parameters. Result of synthesis is presented as
an ICD which is uniquely suitable to be adopted as the criterion for further
evaluations. The ICD derived using bond graph technology has an adaptive
capacity in producing an energy domain-independent solution which is
optimized in terms of functional connectivity and energetic management.

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