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9783642001840

Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm

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    9783642001840

  • ISBN10:

    364200184X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-01
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

Calculus has been used in solving many scientific and engineering problems. For optimization problems, however, the differential calculus technique sometimes has a drawback when the objective function is step-wise, discontinuous, or multi-modal, or when decision variables are discrete rather than continuous. Thus, researchers have recently turned their interests into metaheuristic algorithms that have been inspired by natural phenomena such as evolution, animal behavior, or metallic annealing.This book especially focuses on a music-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, harmony search. Interestingly, there exists an analogy between music and optimization: each musical instrument corresponds to each decision variable; musical note corresponds to variable value; and harmony corresponds to solution vector. Just like musicians in Jazz improvisation play notes randomly or based on experiences in order to find fantastic harmony, variables in the harmony search algorithm have random values or previously-memorized good values in order to find optimal solution.

Table of Contents

Harmony Search as a Metaheuristic Algorithmp. 1
Overview of Applications and Developments in the Harmony Search Algorithmp. 15
Harmony Search Methods for Multi-modal and Constrained Optimizationp. 39
Solving NP-Complete Problems by Harmony Searchp. 53
Harmony Search Applications in Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineeringp. 71
Optimum Design of Steel Skeleton Structuresp. 87
Harmony Search Algorithms for Water and Environmental Systemsp. 113
Identification of Groundwater Parameter Structure Using Harmony Search Algorithmp. 129
Modified Harmony Methods for Slope Stability Problemsp. 141
Harmony Search Algorithm for Transport Energy Demand Modelingp. 163
Sound Classification in Hearing Aids by the Harmony Search Algorithmp. 173
Harmony Search in Therapeutic Medical Physicsp. 189
Author Indexp. 205
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