Comprehensive review of the development of the harmony search algorithm and its applications by Al-Omoush, A.A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Alamri, Hammoudeh S., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the development of the harmony search (HS) algorithm and its applications. …”
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Modified Opposition Based Learning to Improve Harmony Search Variants Exploration by Al-Omoush, Alaa A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Alamri, Hammoudeh S., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…Harmony Search Algorithm (HS) is a well-known optimization algorithm with strong and robust exploitation process. …”
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Pressure vessel design simulation using hybrid harmony search algorithm by Alaa A., Alomoush, Mohammed I., Younis, Khalid S., Aloufi, Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…Among several optimization algorithms, Harmony Search (HS) has been recently proposed for solving engineering optimization problems. …”
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Enhancing three variants of harmony search algorithm for continuous optimization problems by Alomoush, Alaa A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Kamal Z., Zamli, Alrosan, Ayat, Alomoush, Waleed, Alissa, Khalid

“…Meta-heuristic algorithms are well-known optimization methods, for solving real-world optimization problems. Harmony search (HS) is a recognized meta-heuristic algorithm with an efficient exploration process. …”
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Hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm with Grey Wolf Optimizer and Modified Opposition-based Learning by Alomoush, Alaa A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Alamri, Hammoudeh S., Aloufi, Khalid, Kamal Z., Zamli

“…Most metaheuristic algorithms, including harmony search (HS), suffer from parameter selection. …”
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Software product line test list generation based on harmony search algorithm with constraints support by Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Kabir, M. Nomani, Kamal Z., Zamli, Alaofi, Khalid S.

“…Thus, the current study is aimed to develop a new SPL test list generation strategy based on Harmony Search (HS) algorithm, namely SPL-HS. SPL-HS generates a minimum number of test cases that cover all of the features that are required to be tested based on the required interaction degree (t). …”
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Comparative Performance Analysis of Flower Pollination Algorithm and Harmony Search based strategies: A Case Study of Applying Interaction Testing in the Real World by Nasser, Abdul B., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Mu’azu, Aminu A., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…In this paper, we present a comparison between two strategies, Harmony Search (HS) and Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) based strategies. …”
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Solving 0/1 Knapsack Problem Using Hybrid HS and Jaya Algorithms by Alomoush, Alaa A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Alamri, Hammoudeh S., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…In this research, a new hybrid algorithm of Harmony search and Jaya search algorithms applied on 0/1 Knapsack problem to find a near optimal results. …”
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An Orchestrated Survey on T-Way Test Case Generation Strategies Based on Optimization Algorithms by Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Kamal Z., Zamli

“…This paper presents an orchestrated survey of the existing OpA t-way strategies as Simulated Annealing (SA), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Ant Colony Algorithm (ACA), Particle Swarm Optimization based strategy (PSTG), and Harmony Search Strategy (HSS). The results demonstrate the strength and the limitations of each strategy, thereby highlighting possible research for future work in this area.…”
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An elitist-flower pollination-based strategy for constructing sequence and sequence-less t-way test suite by Abdullah, Nasser, Kamal Z., Zamli, Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Ahmed, Bestoun S.

“…In line with the upcoming of a new field called search-based software engineering (SBSE), many newly developed t-way strategies adopting meta-heuristic algorithms can be seen in the literature for constructing interaction test suite (such as simulated annealing (SA), genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimisation algorithm (ACO), particle swarm optimisation (PSO), harmony search (HS) and cuckoo search (CS). Although useful, most of the aforementioned t-way strategies have assumed sequence-less interactions amongst input parameters. …”
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On Adopting Parameter Free Optimization Algorithms for Combinatorial Interaction Testing by Kamal Z., Zamli, Alsariera, Yazan A., Nasser, Abdullah B., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A.

“…Genetic Algorithm (GA), Ant Colony (AC), Simulated Annealling (SA), Particle Swarm Optimization, and Harmony Search Algorithm (HS) as their basis in an effort to generate the most optimal solution. …”
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A kidney algorithm with elitism for combinatorial testing problem by Bahomaid, Ameen A., Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Kamal Z., Zamli, Alhendawi, Kamal M., Al-Janabi, Ala Aldeen

“…Kidney algorithm (KA) is a recent computational AI algorithm with sufficient optimization capability which outperforms the other AI algorithms (such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Cuckoo Search (CS), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Harmony Search (HS)) from some aspects. Although, KA may be easy to fall into local optima by keeping the worst solutions from the past generation as a new population with the best solutions. …”
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Classification Algorithms and Feature Selection Techniques for a Hybrid Diabetes Detection System by Al-Hameli, Bassam Abdo, Alsewari, Abdulrahman A., Alraddadi, Abdulaziz Saleh, Aldhaqm, Arafat

“…Several combinations of Harmony search algorithm, genetic algorithm, and particle swarm optimization algorithm are examined with K-means for feature selection. …”
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