A Research Agenda for Iterative Approaches to Inverse Problems Using Evolutionary Computation

This position paper addresses the relevance of evolution ary computation for iterative approaches to inverse prob lems We focus on a set of six real world problems se lected from the areas of space dynamics materials science geophysics heat transfer oceanography and meteorology These problems are far from being trivial and their asso ciated direct models yield a wide structural diversity thus providing a rich sample of the space of inverse problems We neither discuss any particular problem in depth nor present any results obtained so far Our emphasis is on the research agenda de ned by them for the issue of deriving a generic methodology for approaching inverse problems that has evolutionary computation in its core