
126 Flower Pollination Algorithm
Table 6.1: FPA hybridizations and sample references
Hybrid with Target Sample Reference
Particle swarm optimization
(PSO)
To enhance premature
convergence
[6]
Harmony search (HS) To enhance premature
convergence
[9]
used FPA is a chaotic one where the p parameter of the FPA is updated using a logistic
map according to the following equation:
p
n+1
= µp
n
(1 − p
n
) (6.8)
where µ is set to 0.4, n is the iteration number, and p is the probability for switching
between local and global pollination.
6.3.2 FPA hybridized with chaos enhanced harmony search
In [9] FPA population is initialized with the population at the convergence of the ...