Visually inspecting the search behavior of Harmony Search and its variants with Viz3D

Author

Lotif, Marcelo ; Coelho, André L V

Author_Institution

Grad. Program in Appl. Inf. (MIA), Univ. of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

5-8 June 2011

Firstpage

616

Lastpage

623

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess the Harmony Search (HS) meta-heuristic and some of its variants when submitted to benchmark continuous optimization problems to reveal whether and how such variants change the patterns of search behavior exhibited by the canonical version. For this purpose, a new Visual Mining tool based on the Viz3D algorithm was developed to aid in the visualization of how the HS algorithms effectively explore the search space. The results achieved provide evidence that the gains in performance usually promoted by the HS variants are indeed related to noticeable modifications in the search behavior as displayed by the original version.

Keywords

data mining; optimisation; search problems; Viz3D algorithm; benchmark continuous optimization problems; canonical version; harmony search meta-heuristic; search space; visual mining tool; Algorithm design and analysis; Data mining; Data visualization; Nickel; Optimization; Search problems; Visualization; Continuous Optimization; Harmony Search; Information Visualization; RadViz; Visual Data Mining; Viz3D;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2011 IEEE Congress on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7834-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC.2011.5949676

Filename

5949676