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One of the major difficulties in applying optimization to reservoir engineering problems is that each function evaluation requires a complete simulation which is computationally expensive. Moreover, some problems are known to be multimodal with several local minima. A common approach to tackle these problems is to construct cheap global approximation models of the responses often called metamodels...