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The document discusses the Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm, a metaheuristic optimization technique inspired by music, which has been applied to various scientific and engineering problems. It highlights the analogy between music and optimization, where musical elements represent decision variables and solutions. The book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the algorithm's theory and applications across multiple fields, with contributions from various authors.

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The document discusses the Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm, a metaheuristic optimization technique inspired by music, which has been applied to various scientific and engineering problems. It highlights the analogy between music and optimization, where musical elements represent decision variables and solutions. The book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the algorithm's theory and applications across multiple fields, with contributions from various authors.

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Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm

Article in Studies in Computational Intelligence · January 2009

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Preface

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.
The recently-developed harmony search algorithm has been vigorously applied to
various optimization problems. Thus, the goal of this book is to show readers full spectrum
of the algorithm in theory and applications in the form of an edited volume with the
following subjects: justification as a metaheuristic algorithm by Yang; literature review by
Ingram and Zhang; multi-modal approach by Gao, Wang & Ovaska; computer science
applications by Mahdavi; engineering applications by Fesanghary; structural design by
Saka; water and environmental applications by Geem, Tseng & Williams; groundwater
modeling by Ayvaz; geotechnical analysis by Cheng; energy demand forecasting by
Ceylan; sound classification in hearing aids by Alexandre, Cuadra & Gil-Pita; and
therapeutic medical physics by Panchal.
As an editor of this book, I’d like to express my deepest thanks to reviewers and
proofreaders including Mike Dreis, John Galuardi, Sanghun Kim, Una-May O’Reilly,
Byungkyu Park, Ronald Wiles, and Ali Rıza Yıldız, as well as the above-mentioned chapter
authors. Furthermore, as a first inventor of the harmony search algorithm, I especially thank
Joel Donahue, Chung-Li Tseng, Joong Hoon Kim, and the late G. V. Loganathan (victim of
Virginia Tech shooting) for their ideas and support. Finally, I’d like to share the joy of the
publication with my family who are unceasing motivators in life.

Zong Woo Geem

Editor

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