?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eledia.org%2Fstudents-reports%2F513%2F&rft.title=Evolutionary-based+Optimization+Techniques+for+Inverse+Scattering%3A+A+Review&rft.creator=Rocca%2C+Paolo&rft.creator=Massa%2C+Andrea&rft.subject=TU+Technical+Reports+and+Publications&rft.description=The+use+of+stochastic+global+optimizers+has+had+a+non%3Fnegligible+impact+on+several+areas+of+research+and+industry+and+they+have+been+effectively+applied+to+several+problems+in+engineering+and+sciences+%5B1%5D.+Thanks+to+the+availability+and+growing+of+computational+resources+with+the+large+diffusion+of+modern+computers%2C+optimization+techniques+based+on+Evolutionary+Algorithms+(EAs)+have+received+a+wide+attention+because+of+their+attractive+features.+As+a+matter+of+fact%2C+EAs+are+hill%3Fclimbing+algorithms+and+do+not+require+the+differentiation+of+the+cost+function%2C+which+is+a+%22must%22+for+gradientbased+methods.+They+are+based+on+stochastic+iterative+procedures+where+a+pool+of+trial+solutions+is+used+to+sample+the+solution+space+at+each+iteration+thus+improving+the+search+capability+as+compared+to+single%3Fagent+techniques+(e.g.%2C+Simulated+Annealing).+A%3Fpriori+information+can+also+be+easily+introduced+in+terms+of+additional+constraints+on+the+actual+solution+or+the+boundaries+of+the+solution+space.+Moreover%2C+they+can+directly+deal+with+real+values+as+well+as+with+coded+representations+of+the+unknowns+(e.g.%2C+binary+coding).+Their+main+drawback+(i.e.%2C+the+convergence+rate)+has+been+also+further+contrasted+by+exploiting+their+implicit+and+explicit+parallelism+thanks+to+modern+computer+clusters+%5B2%5D.&rft.date=2011-01&rft.type=Technical+Report&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eledia.org%2Fstudents-reports%2F513%2F1%2FDISI-11-177.C190.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rocca%2C+Paolo+and+Massa%2C+Andrea++(2011)+Evolutionary-based+Optimization+Techniques+for+Inverse+Scattering%3A+A+Review.++%5BTechnical+Report%5D+++++