A Novel Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization Method: Harris’ Hawk Optimization

Abstract

Swarm intelligence is a modern optimization technique, and one of the most promising techniques for solving optimization problems. In this paper, a new swarm intelligence based algorithm namely, Harris’ Hawk Optimizer (HHO) is proposed. The algorithm mimics the cooperative hunting behaviour of Harris’ hawks. The algorithm is analysed for twenty five well known benchmark functions. Performance of HHO is compared with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) and The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). HHO is implemented and results present HHO as one of the efficient optimization methods.