%0 Book Section
%T Progress in global optimization and shape design
publisher Springer
%D 2008
%U 978-3-540-79408-0
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53414
%X In this paper, we reformulate global optimization problems in terms of boundary value problems. This allows us to introduce a new class of optimization algorithms. Indeed, many optimization methods can be seen as discretizations of initial value problems for differential equations or systems of differential equations. We apply a particular algorithm included in the former class to the shape optimization of coastal structures
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