A method for determining trial designs is provided. The method includes receiving, via at least one processor, one or more trial design criteria and one or more scenarios corresponding to a set of trial designs, and generating, via the at least one processor, simulation data based at least in part on replicating each of the set of trial designs with the one or more trial design criteria and the one or more scenarios. The simulation data includes performance parameters and performance parameter values associated with each design in the set of designs for a set of criteria. The method further includes determining, via the at least one processor, an optimality criteria for evaluating the trial designs, searching, within the set of trial designs, via the at least one processor, for globally optimum designs based on the optimality criteria, and transmitting, via the at least one processor, globally optimum designs.