A systematic review on harmony search algorithm: theory, literature, and applications

M Dubey, V Kumar, M Kaur… - Mathematical Problems in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Harmony search algorithm is the recently developed metaheuristic in the last decade. It
mimics the behavior of a musician producing a perfect harmony. It has been used to solve …

A survey of the nurse rostering solution methodologies: The state-of-the-art and emerging trends

CM Ngoo, SL Goh, NR Sabar, S Abdullah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of recent advances for the Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP)
based on methodological papers published between 2012 to 2021. It provides a …

[PDF][PDF] Al-Biruni Earth Radius (BER) Metaheuristic Search Optimization Algorithm.

ESM El-Kenawy, AA Abdelhamid, A Ibrahim… - Comput. Syst. Sci …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Metaheuristic optimization algorithms present an effective method for solving several
optimization problems from various types of applications and fields. Several metaheuristics …

[PDF][PDF] Dipper throated optimization algorithm for unconstrained function and feature selection

AE Takieldeen, ESM El-kenawy, M Hadwan… - Comput. Mater …, 2022 - academia.edu
Dipper throated optimization (DTO) algorithm is a novel with a very efficient metaheuristic
inspired by the dipper throated bird. DTO has its unique hunting technique by performing …

Competitive and cooperative particle swarm optimization with information sharing mechanism for global optimization problems

Y Li, ZH Zhan, S Lin, J Zhang, X Luo - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an information sharing mechanism (ISM) to improve the performance of
particle swarm optimization (PSO). The ISM allows each particle to share its best search …

Harmony search: Current studies and uses on healthcare systems

MT Abdulkhaleq, TA Rashid, A Alsadoon… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the popular metaheuristic search algorithms is Harmony Search (HS). It has been
verified that HS can find solutions to optimization problems due to its balanced exploratory …

Jointly rostering, routing, and rerostering for home health care services: A harmony search approach with genetic, saturation, inheritance, and immigrant schemes

CC Lin, LP Hung, WY Liu, MC Tsai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
In home health care (HHC) services, nurses or professional caregivers are dispatched to
patients' homes to provide medical care services, such that each patient can stay at home to …

A multi-population harmony search algorithm with external archive for dynamic optimization problems

AM Turky, S Abdullah - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Dynamic optimization problems present great challenges to the research community
because their parameters are either revealed or changed during the course of an ongoing …

First-order linear programming in a column generation-based heuristic approach to the nurse rostering problem

P Strandmark, Y Qu, T Curtois - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
A heuristic method based on column generation is presented for the nurse rostering
problem. The method differs significantly from an exact column generation approach or a …

Meta-harmony search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows

ET Yassen, M Ayob, MZA Nazri, NR Sabar - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been proven that the hybridization of the harmony search algorithm with a local search
algorithm (LS) is essential to compensate for the inadequacy of its exploitation. However, the …