scholarly journals Harmony Search Method: Theory and Applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Z. Gao ◽  
V. Govindasamy ◽  
H. Xu ◽  
X. Wang ◽  
K. Zenger
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Harmony Search ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Optimal Design Problem ◽  
Pareto Dominance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithm

The Harmony Search (HS) method is an emerging metaheuristic optimization algorithm, which has been employed to cope with numerous challenging tasks during the past decade. In this paper, the essential theory and applications of the HS algorithm are first described and reviewed. Several typical variants of the original HS are next briefly explained. As an example of case study, a modified HS method inspired by the idea of Pareto-dominance-based ranking is also presented. It is further applied to handle a practical wind generator optimal design problem.

Use of Direct Search in Automated Optimal Design

1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Mathematical Programming ◽  
Penalty Function ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Direct Search ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Pattern Search ◽  
Search Procedure ◽  
Optimal Design Problem ◽  
Variable Step

A direct search penalty function procedure is described for treating a rather general mathematical programming form of the optimal design problem. A rotating coordinate modification of the pattern search of Hooke and Jeeves is proposed and compared with the original method, and an earlier variable step modification, as the basic optimal search method. The algorithm is successfully applied to several design examples which indicate that both modifications are comparable and are significantly superior to the original pattern search procedure.

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

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