e.</p>

<p><strong>MADS</strong> can internally coupled with any other simulators using object-oriented programming.</p>

<p><strong>MADS</strong> includes a series of <a href="#methods:functions" class="ajax-links">test functions</a> built in the code for performance (robustness and efficiency) analysis of existing model-analyses techniques.</p>

<p><strong>MADS</strong> automatically detects and utilizes the available parallel resources; for the user, there is no difference between serial (using single pr