An improved Chaotic Harris Hawks Optimizer for solving numerical and engineering optimization problems

Harris Hawk’s Optimizer (HHO) is a recently developed meta-heuristics search algorithm with inherent capability to explore global minima and maxima. However, the local search of the basic HHO algorithm is sluggish and has slow convergence rate due to its poor exploitation capability. In the present work, exploration and exploitation phase of HHO have been improved using a chaotic variant of the present optimizer. The proposed chaotic variant has...