Rental Harmony is the problem of assigning rooms in a rented house to tenants with different preferences, and simultaneously splitting rent among them, such that no tenant envies bundle (room+price) given another tenant. Different papers have studied this under two incompatible assumptions: miserly assumption each prefers free room non-free room; quasilinear attributes monetary value room, whic...

Many authors have noted the role that anthropocentrism has played in creating humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with natural world. As human hubris (excessive pride or self-confidence) is an ailment contributes to anthropogenic sixth mass extinction of Earth’s biodiversity, we argue instead for ‘harmony nature’. In recent decades, even conservation discourse become increasingly anthropocent...

To enhance the performance of harmony search (HS) algorithm on solving the discrete optimization problems, this paper proposes a novel harmony search algorithm based on teaching-learning (HSTL) strategies to solve 0-1 knapsack problems. In the HSTL algorithm, firstly, a method is presented to adjust dimension dynamically for selected harmony vector in optimization procedure. In addition, four s...

The paper discusses two types of exclusive (dis)harmonies in Mandarin. Exclusive-(dis)harmony-A—only is compatible with few but not many, and exclusive-(dis)harmony-B—only is compatible with less than n but not more than n. We suggest Exclusive-(dis)harmony-A can be explained along the lines of Chen 2005. We further propose that Exclusive-disharmony-B can be explained by Maximization failure (F...

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...

The numerical index system of color harmony is intended to mark a great number of color pairs, optimally any number of existing color pairs, by a number between 0 and 100. This number expresses the extent to which a color pair is being felt harmonious by the average of people and the level of harmony content it possesses. The experiments described in this article have determined the basic data ...