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 …

Comprehensive review of the development of the harmony search algorithm and its applications

A Ala'a, AA Alsewari, HS Alamri, KZ Zamli - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the development of the harmony search
(HS) algorithm and its applications. HS is a well-known human-based meta-heuristic …

A new hybrid algorithm based on grey wolf optimization and crow search algorithm for unconstrained function optimization and feature selection

S Arora, H Singh, M Sharma, S Sharma, P Anand - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is a very efficient metaheuristic inspired by the hierarchy of the
Canis lupus wolves. It has been extensively employed to a variety of practical applications …

A survey on applications of the harmony search algorithm

D Manjarres, I Landa-Torres, S Gil-Lopez… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper thoroughly reviews and analyzes the main characteristics and application
portfolio of the so-called Harmony Search algorithm, a meta-heuristic approach that has …

A tabu search hyper-heuristic strategy for t-way test suite generation

KZ Zamli, BY Alkazemi, G Kendall - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel hybrid t-way test generation strategy (where t indicates
interaction strength), called High Level Hyper-Heuristic (HHH). HHH adopts Tabu Search as …

Review of nature inspired metaheuristic algorithm selection for combinatorial t-way testing

AA Muazu, AS Hashim, A Sarlan - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The metaheuristic algorithm is a very important area of research that continuously improves
in solving optimization problems. Nature-inspired is one of the metaheuristic algorithm …

An experimental study of hyper-heuristic selection and acceptance mechanism for combinatorial t-way test suite generation

KZ Zamli, F Din, G Kendall, BS Ahmed - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, many meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed to serve as the basis of a t-
way test generation strategy (where t indicates the interaction strength) including Genetic …

A hybrid Q-learning sine-cosine-based strategy for addressing the combinatorial test suite minimization problem

KZ Zamli, F Din, BS Ahmed, M Bures - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) is a new population-based meta-heuristic algorithm. In
addition to exploiting sine and cosine functions to perform local and global searches (hence …

Constrained interaction testing: A systematic literature study

BS Ahmed, KZ Zamli, W Afzal, M Bures - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interaction testing can be used to effectively detect faults that are otherwise difficult to find by
other testing techniques. However, in practice, the input configurations of software systems …

Hybrid flower pollination algorithm strategies for t-way test suite generation

AB Nasser, KZ Zamli, ARA Alsewari, BS Ahmed - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The application of meta-heuristic algorithms for t-way testing has recently become prevalent.
Consequently, many useful meta-heuristic algorithms have been developed on the basis of …