| Article ID: | iaor20126655 |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 627 |
| End Page Number: | 629 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Journal: | Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization |
| Authors: | Le Riche Rodolphe, Haftka Raphael |
| Keywords: | global optimization, literature survey |
Recent discussions in the editorial committee of the SMO Journal, following a forum article (Sigmund, 2011) on non‐gradient methods in topology optimization, have shown that an analysis of global optimization contributions to SMO might be useful.