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, Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Yohan Entails, Michel Castagné, Fabien Chaudoye, Roland Dauphin, Adrien Hallé and Frédéric Nicolas for their explanations on the engine calibration problem, their advices and last but not least for providing the real dataset for this study