“…Regarding the global search phase of the hybrid, in our group, and during the last decade, we have compared a number of different stochastic and deterministic global optimisation methods, making particular emphasis on the optimisation of non-linear dynamic systems (Banga and Seider, 1996;Banga et al, 1997Banga et al, , 2003Balsa-Canto et al, 1998;Carrasco and Banga, 1998;Moles et al, 2003a,b). The overall conclusions from these studies indicate that modern Evolution Strategies (Hansen and Ostermeier, 2001;Runarsson and Yao, 2000) have several key advantages over GAs and SA, namely better efficiency/robustness ratio, good scaling properties (i.e.…”