Automatic Music Generation (AMG) has become an interesting research topic for many scientists in artificial intelligence, who are also interested the music industry. One of main challenges is that there no clear objective evaluation criterion can measure grammar, structural rules, and audience satisfaction. Also, original contains different elements should work together, such as melody, harmony...

This paper proposes an efficient approach for the identification of the predominant voice from polyphonic musical audio. The algorithm implements an auditory streaming model which builds upon tone objects and salient pitches. The formation of voices is based on the regular update of the frequency and the magnitude of so called streaming agents, which aim at salient tones or pitches close to the...

APOPCALEAPS is a logic-based music generation program that uses high level probabilistic rules. The music produced by APOPCALEAPS is controlled by parameters that can be customized by a user to create personalized songs. Perlin noise is a type of gradient noise algorithm which generates smooth and controllable variations of random numbers. This paper introduces the idea of using a Perlin noise ...

This paper describes a multiobjective approach for melody harmonization in evolutionary music. There are numerous methods and a myriad of results to a process of harmonization of a given melody. Some implicit rules can be extracted from musical theory, but some harmonic aspects can only be defined by preferences of a composer. Thus, a multiobjective approach may be useful to allow an evolutiona...

This article introduces two swarm intelligent algorithms, a group search optimizer (GSO) and an artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA). A single intelligent algorithm always has both merits in its specific formulation and deficiencies due to its inherent limitations. Therefore, we propose a mixture of these algorithms to create a new hybrid optimization algorithm known as the group search-artif...

This study introduces an effective population-based optimization algorithm, namely the Golden Search Optimization Algorithm (GSO), for numerical function optimization. The new algorithm has a simple but strategy solving complex problems. GSO starts with random possible solutions called objects, which interact each other based on mathematical model to reach global optimum. To provide fine balanc...

Main contribution of this work is improving transient stability by installing Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) in power systems. For do this, Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) has been selected. Also a novel structure has been suggested to improve classic Harmony Search algorithm and suggested improved Harmony Search (iHS) algorithm. This algorithm has been used to obtain UPFC paramet...

The main aim of the present study is to propose a modified harmony search (MHS) algorithm for size and shape optimization of structures. The standard harmony search (HS) algorithm is conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of the harmony. It uses a stochastic random search instead of a gradient search. The proposed MHS algorithm is designed based on elitism. In...