Harmony Search in Water Pump Switching Problem

• Published in: Advances in Natural Computation pp. 751 - 760
• Main Author: Geem, Zong Woo
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Biomimetics; Pumping; Genetic algorithm; Branch and bound method; Musical acoustics; Problem solving; Modeling; Optimization; Pump; Search algorithm

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a recently-developed nature-inspired algorithm, harmony search (HS), and to apply the algorithm to water pump switching problem. The HS algorithm is conceptualized using the musical improvisation process of searching for a better state of harmony. This paper...