Hybrid Harmony Search Differential Evolution Algorithm

Differential evolution (DE) algorithm has some excellent attributes including strong exploration capability. However, it cannot balance the exploitation with exploration ability in the search process. To enhance the performance of the DE algorithm, this paper proposes a new algorithm named hybrid harmony differential evolution algorithm (HHSDE). The key features of HHSDE algorithm are as follows. First, a new mutation operation is developed for improving the efficiency of mutation, in which the New Harmony generation mechanics of the harmony algorithm (HS) is employed. Second, the harmony memory size is updated with the iteration. Third, a self-adaptive parameter adjustment strategy is presented to control scaling factor. Fourth, a new evaluation method is proposed to effectively assess the algorithm convergence performance. Two classical DE algorithms, HS algorithm, improvement Differential evolution algorithm(ISDE) and Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony algorithm with Differential Evolution(HABCDE) have been tested against HHSDE based on 25 benchmark functions of CEC2005 and the results reveal that the proposed algorithm is better than the other algorithms under consideration.