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Harmony Search

Harmony Search (HS) is a population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm introduced by Geem, Kim, and Loganathan in 2001. It mimics the improvisation process of jazz musicians seeking a perfect state of harmony, using three operators — memory consideration, pitch adjustment, and random selection — to generate candidate solutions. The algorithm applies to both continuous and discrete variables and has found wide use in engineering design, water distribution network optimization, and combinatorial problems.

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Harmony Search Algorithm
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / optimization
  • Geem, Z. W., Kim, J. H., & Loganathan, G. V. (2001). A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search. Simulation, 76(2), 60–68. · DOI 10.1177/003754970107600201
  • Mahdavi, M., Fesanghary, M., & Damangir, E. (2007). An Improved Harmony Search Algorithm for Solving Optimization Problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 188(2), 1567–1579. · DOI 10.1016/j.amc.2006.11.033
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