# A Comprehensive Survey of the Harmony Search Algorithm in Clustering Applications
## 3 Variants of the HSA
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**Proposed** & **Application** & **Description** & **Results and Conclusion** & **Year** & **Ashteou(Web)** \\ \hline H-KHA & Data clustering & Introduced a new data clustering method based on a hybrid strategy of the KHA and HSA, called Harmacy-KHA & The obtained results revealed that the proposed hybrid method (Harmacy-KHA) provided accurate clusters, especially for the large dataset. & 2016 & [PERSON] et al. in [25] \\ \hline ISA & Wireless Sensor Networks & A new clustering method, based on using improved ISA, is proposed to address the energy hole problem. & The obtained results showed that the proposed ISA is a robust clustering technique, and it got better clustering results. & 2017 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] in [60] \\ \hline P-HSA & Wireless Sensor Networks & An approach for developing network lifetime proposed by utilizing PSO 30 GB/mesh-based clustering in ISAS and HSDSAGE routing in VINS & The obtained results showed that the proposed ISA is a robust clustering technique, and it got better clustering results. & 2017 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] in [61] \\ \hline IMS-CD & Clustering application in & A Protein-Protein interaction (FFD) network systems exposure (_medium_) is proposed based on the HSDSAGE-CD & The obtained results on a real benchmark dataset like a system FFD network. & 2017 & [PERSON] et al. in [62] \\ \hline ISA & Wireless sensor networks & A new grouping protocol for WSNs is proposed, which can enhance entire network power and increase the network lifetime & The results showed that the proposed protocol obtained an optimal number of clusters. & 2018 & [PERSON] in [63] \\ \hline ISA & Wireless sensor networks & A novel ISA is proposed based on energy-efficient load-balanced clustering method & The obtained results confirmed that the proposed method has faster convergence and provides several critical load-balanced clustering compared to the best ISA and other several similar methods in the literature. & 2018 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] in [64] \\ \hline CS-HSA & Clustering protocols & A hybrid CS with HSA-based energy equivalent node clustering protocol is proposed, which utilizes a new objective function for the uniform pattern of cluster headless & The proposed clustering clustering protocol. & 2018 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] in [65] \\ \hline ISA & Wireless sensor networks & Multiple-robies based on using ISAS are proposed and compared in terms of their effectiveness for solving the underlying protocols in WSNs & The proposed method decreased the computational time demands and network performance in regard to the base location. & 2018 & [PERSON] et al. in [64] \\ \hline CDHS & Test clustering & CDHS, new clustering method, is proposed based on using the DGE crossover with the Differential ISA for the same time, the proposed method (CDFS) obtains superior results compared to other similar methods. & 2018 & [PERSON] et al. in [67] \\ \hline MH-CCA & Wireless sensor networks & A multi-objective tournament HSA coverage aware load-balanced (MISC-CCA) is proposed to solve the clustering problems in WSNs & The proposed method obtained better results in terms of average shape, lifetime getroways, lifetimes sensors, power consumption, and network lifetime compared to other similar methods. & 2019 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] in [68] \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Conf.