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5 Reflection on the HS Literature
It is an exciting time to be involved in the HS world. The literature is still relatively
small, but is growing rapidly as seen in Figure 1. A critical mass of researchers is
forming around the world. HS is expanding its horizons. From its original application
to civil engineering and benchmark problems, there are now studies in medicine,
process engineering, information technology, ecology and other disciplines. Fittingly,
the Harmony Search has been applied to musical composition and hearing aid design!
Surely the diversity of applications will continue grow as the algorithm becomes more
widely known.
More than half the HS publications to date use some modification of the original al-
gorithm. This chapter, and indeed this topic, may catalyse further development of the
method. In Chapter 1, Yang encouraged us to use heuristics to develop variant and hy-
brid HS algorithms. Mukhopadhyay and colleagues have shown us how a theoretical
approach can lead to algorithmic innovations. The authors hope that the classification
and summary in Section 4 may also help to inspire readers to further development of
the HS method. There are intriguing hints that the power of the original HS lays
somewhat untapped, let alone that of the modified algorithms.
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