pSeven falls under the category of PIDO (Process Integration and Design Optimization) software.
Design space exploration functionality is based on the mathematical algorithms of pSeven Core (formerly named MACROS) Python library.
In 2003, researchers from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems started collaborating with Airbus to perform R&D in the domains of simulation and data analysis using the pSeven Core library as pSeven's background.
The first version of the pSeven Core library was created in association with EADS Innovation Works in 2009.
Users can solve both engineering optimization problems with cheap semi-analytical models and problems with expensive (in terms of CPU time) objective functions and constraints.