“…In the literature, model exploitation and space exploration have been successfully combined by using the statistical measure of expected improvement (EI) (Jones, 2001). EI has been applied for model-aided optimization of various catalytic processes, including epoxidation of trans-stilbene (Yan et al, 2011a), CO oxidation (Yan et al, 2011b), and the Friedel-Crafts reaction (Omata, 2011). In this work, EI is implemented for the purpose of reliable optimization.…”