Research Article

A Novel Self-Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm

Table 7

Algorithm parameters.

AlgorithmHMSHMCRPARBwNIOthers

HS90.90.30.0150,000None
IHS90.9Min: 0.01; max: 0.99Min: 0.0001; max: 1/(20(ublb))50,000None
HSw90.9Min: 0.01; max: 0.99Needless50,000None
DLHS9Initial: 0.91Initail: 0.5Min: 0.0001; max: (ublb)/20050,000 ; : len = 200
SGHS9Initial: 0.98Initial: 0.9Min: 0.0005; max: (ublb)/1050,000LP = 100
NSHS*91 − 1/( )NeedlessNo initial value, using (11)50,000None

NSHS has only two key parameters HMCR and Bw, but they do not require the user's inputs.