Recent Advances In Harmony Search Algorithm

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geem, Zong Woo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 270
• Subjects: Computer science.; Music.; Artificial intelligence.; Acoustics.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Intelligence.

Nowadays, music-inspired phenomenon-mimicking harmony search algorithm is fast growing with many applications. One of key success factors of the algorithm is the employment of a novel stochastic derivative which can be used even for discrete variables. Instead of traditional calculus-based gradient,...