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The paper presents a methodology for nondeterministic design optimization of hierarchically coupled structural systems. Deterministic multilevel decomposition-based design formulations for such systems have been modified to incorporate the presence of uncertainty in both the problem parameters, and in design variables at various levels of a multilevel hierarchical system. These formulations not only...