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Two frameworks for cross-domain heuristic and parameter selection using harmony search

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Publication date30/09/2015
Host publicationHarmony Search Algorithm: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA2015)
PublisherSpringer
Pages83-94
Number of pages12
ISBN (electronic)9783662479261
ISBN (print)9783662479254
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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Name Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
PublisherSpringer
Volume382
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (electronic)2194-5365

Abstract

Harmony Search is a metaheuristic technique for optimizing problems involving sets of continuous or discrete variables, inspired by musicians searching for harmony between instruments in a performance. Here we investigate two frameworks, using Harmony Search to select a mixture of continuous and discrete variables forming the components of a Memetic Algorithm for cross-domain heuristic search. The first is a single-point based framework which maintains a single solution, updating the harmony memory based on performance from a fixed starting position. The second is a population-based method which co-evolves a set of solutions to a problem alongside a set of harmony vectors. This work examines the behaviour of each framework over thirty problem instances taken from six different, real-world problem domains. The results suggest that population co-evolution performs better in a time-constrained scenario, however both approaches are ultimately constrained by the underlying metaphors.