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The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 125625, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/125625
Research Article

An Effective Hybrid Firefly Algorithm with Harmony Search for Global Numerical Optimization

Lihong Guo,1 Gai-Ge Wang,2 Heqi Wang,1 and Dinan Wang1

1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
2School of Computer Science and Technology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China

Received 10 August 2013; Accepted 29 September 2013

Academic Editors: Z. Cui and X. Yang

Copyright © 2013 Lihong Guo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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