An improved harmony search algorithm for solving optimization problems

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Multi-Verse Optimizer: a nature-inspired algorithm for global optimization (2015, background): “The pressure vessel design problem is another popular engineering test problem in the literature of meta-heuristics [42, 47].”
Metaheuristic design of feedforward neural networks: A review of two decades of research (2017, methodology): “Moreover, the efficiency of HS comes from using m many harmonies (weight vectors), and iteratively improvising each harmony by computing new harmony (new solution vectors) using heuristic inspired by music pitch modification [117,177,178].”
A new heuristic optimization algorithm for modeling of proton exchange membrane fuel cell: bird mating optimizer (2013, neutral): “003) [20], and self-adaptive global HS (SGHS:HMCR=0.”
Feature Selection With Harmony Search (2012, background): “its pitch adjustment rate and bandwidth with regard to search iterations [37].”