Recent advances in harmony search algorithm /

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Imprint:Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 174 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 270
Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 270.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11073883
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Other authors / contributors:Geem, Zong Woo.
ISBN:9783642043178
3642043178
9783642043161
364204316X
1280003146
9781280003141
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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, the algorithm utilizes musician{u2019}s experience as a derivative in searching for an optimal solution. This can be a new paradigm and main reason in the successes of various applications. The goal of this book is to introduce major advances of the harmony search algorithm in recent years. The book contains 14 chapters with the following subjects: State-of-the-art in the harmony search algorithm structure; robotics (robot terrain and manipulator trajectory); visual tracking; web text data mining; power flow planning; fuzzy control system; hybridization (with Taguchi method or SQP method); groundwater management; irrigation ; logistics; timetabling; and bioinformatics (RNA structure prediction). This book collects the above-mentioned theory and applications, which are dispersed in various technical publications, so that readers can have a good grasp of current status of the harmony search algorithm and foster new breakthroughs in their fields using the algorithm.
Other form:Print version: Kacprzyk, Janusz. Recent Advances in Harmony Search Algorithm. Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ©2010 9783642043161