Heuristic techniques are optimization methods that inspired by nature. Although there are many heuristics in the … validity of this method called Search and Rescue Optimization Algorithm (AKOA), the technique applied to find the global …

method. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with an upper bound that is achieved by applying Karush …–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. Computational results show that our algorithm finds near the upper bound solutions in a reasonable time. …

algorithm which was developed based on the musical process of searching for the optimal condition of harmony to produce an … appropriate search approach for design optimization purposes. Besides, the Tribe-Harmony Search (Tribe-HS) algorithm is also … proposed for the first time in this paper to improve the performance of the HS algorithm which divides the HS's searching phase …

Harmony search algorithm (HS) cannot always avoid being trapped in local optima, and several local search algorithms …), tabu search algorithm (TB), simulated annealing algorithm (SA), and variable neighborhood search algorithm (VNS)) with HS …

Harmony search algorithm (HS) cannot always avoid being trapped in local optima, and several local search algorithms …), tabu search algorithm (TB), simulated annealing algorithm (SA), and variable neighborhood search algorithm (VNS)) with HS …