“…6 the number of iterations needed for the presented algorithms (10 to 30) to the typical number of iterations needed for genetic (25600 (van Zijl, 2013), 843 to 33072 (Jouffroy, 2007)), adaptive particle swarm optimization (6000 (van Zijl, 2013)) or the stochastic design improvement (555, (Mareschi et al, 2005)), this approach is much faster. The number of parameters of the models used in these evaluations is comparable to the complex model used in this paper, but the the number of iterations needed for the tested algorithms is 20 to 1,000 times smaller than the number of iterations reported for genetic or adaptive particle swarm algorithms.…”