“…Building a metamodel involves two procedures: (1) employing design of experiments (DOEs) to sample the computer simulation; and (2) selecting an approximation model to represent the data and fit the model with the sampling data . Various metamodels have been developed, such as the polynomial model (Montgomery 2007), kriging model (Chen et al 2014;Li et al 2013), radial basis functions (RBF) (Fang and Horstemeyer 2006), multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) (Friedman 1991), support vector regression (Clarke, Griebsch, and Simpson 2005;, high-dimensional model representation (Shan and Wang 2010;Wang, Tang, and Li 2011;Hajikolaei and Wang 2012;Li, Wang, and Li 2012), and multisurrogate models (Zerpa et al 2005;Goel et al 2006;Zhang, Chowdhury, and Messac 2012;Zheng et al 2013), which combine some of the basic metamodels. *Corresponding author.…”