“…Surprisingly, the nonlinear dynamics literature has been neglecting the CE method, although it is a relatively known technique in the combinatorial optimization community. To the best of the author's knowledge, there are few studies in the open literature applying the CE method for numerical optimization problems involving nonlinear mechanical systems [15,16,17,25,34,63], which leaves space for new contributions in this line. In particular, the development of a simplistic and robust optimization framework, easily customizable, which can be used by naive users without major performance losses.…”