Harmony search

Omran M G H, Mahdavi M. 2008. Global-best harmony search. Applied Mathematics and Computation 198 643-656. 

This section will introduce several representative evolutionary optimization techniques, including genetic algorithms (GA), evolution strategies (ES) and harmony searches (HS). 

Lee, K. and Geem, Z., 2004. A new structural optimization method based on the harmony search algorithm. Computers [Pg.39]

Mahdavi, M., Fesanghary, M. and Damangir, E., 2007. An improved harmony search algorithm for solving optimization problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 188(2), 1567-1579. 

Intelligent sales forecasting for fashion retailing using harmony search algorithms and extreme learning machines... 

Key words fashion sales forecasting, harmony search, neural network, extreme learning machine. 

Zou D, Gao L, Li S, Wu J (2011) Solving 0-1 knapsack problem by a novel global harmony search algorithm. Appl Soft Comput 11 1556-1564... 

Z.W. Geem, Novel derivative of harmony search algorithm for discrete design variables. Appl. Math. Comput. 199(1), 223-230 (2008)... 

Wong, W.K., Guo, Z.X., 2010. A hybrid inteUigent model for medium-term sales forecasting in fashion retail supply chains using extreme learning machine and harmony search algorithm. Int. J. Prod. Econ. 128, 614-624. 

Kaveh, A., Talatahari, S. (2009). Particle swarm optimizer, ant colony strategy and harmony search scheme hybridized for optimization oftruss stmc-tures. Computers Structures, 87, 267-283. doi 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.01.003... 

Bormann, F. H., et al. (1993). Redesigning the American lawn A search for environmental harmony. New Haven and London Yale University Press. 

For some early history of efforts to understand the origins of cancer, see R. A. Weinberg, Racing to the Beginning of the Road The Search for the Origin of Cancer, Harmony Books, New York, 1996. 

Psychologically, outer harmony may allow for a clearer experience of inner factors and conflicts, as well as a search for new information, as represented graphically by the explorations of the... 

The most important aspects of our contemporary scientific worldview arose from religion, philosophy, art, and everyday social life. The aspiration of contemporary science to express everything in numbers came from music. The search for numerical harmony penetrated science in the form of a concept of music through the school of Pythagoras. Number plays in contemporary science the same mystic role as it played in antic religious cults. Scientific reason rests on its laurels when it finds numeric proportions. It is noteworthy that Vernadsky (1988, p. 54) remarks in this cormection that the. .mathematical constructions" are the jideal creations of our reason". Thus the wide-spread concepts of contemporary science such as atom, energy, force, and heredity penetrated science from the other forms of intellectual activity. 

The ancient Greek philosophers searched harmony in the universe as well as in the human arts. Certain geometric constmctions are addressed as platonic bodies. The school named after Pythagoras tried to measure harmony in numbers. As simpler a ration of numbers that are characterizing a system, more harmonic the system is itself. The starting point was problems of music, because here harmony is very easy to demonstrate. 

Some evolutionary optimization techniques do not originate in natural evolution. The HS is a relatively new evolutionary optimization algorithm developed by Geem et al. (2001), which is inspired by musicians improvisation of their instnrments pitches to search for perfect harmony. 

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