Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm - Theory and Applications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in Computational Intelligence, 191
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2009
Editors:	Zong Woo Geem
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-10124-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Numerical analysis Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Data structures Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Algorithms & procedures Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematics for scientists & engineers Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematical modelling Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	3-642-10124-0
Barcode:	9783642101243

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