“…Evolutionary algorithms, because of their ability in converging to the global optima, have been widely used for FIR filter design (Ababneh and Bataineh, 2008;Ahmad and Antoniou, 2006;Boudjelaba et al, 2014;Ghoshal et al, 2012;Karaboga and Cetinkaya, 2006;Liu et al, 2010;Lu and Tzeng, 2000;Mandal et al, 2012;Najjarzadeh and Ayatollahi, 2008;Radecki et al, 2005;Saha et al, 2013aSaha et al, , 2013c. The various techniques reported in this context include simulated annealing (Radecki et al, 2005), genetic algorithms (GA) (Ahmad and Antoniou, 2006;Boudjelaba et al, 2014;Lu and Tzeng, 2000), particle swarm optimization (PSO) (Ababneh and Bataineh, 2008;Mandal et al, 2012), Differential evolution (DE) (Karaboga and Cetinkaya, 2006;Liu et al, 2010), Hybrid differential evolution and PSO (DEPSO) (Luitel and Venayagamoorthy, 2008), orthogonal harmony search algorithm (OHS) (Saha et al, 2013a), Cat swarm optimization (CSO) (Saha et al, 2013b), bacteria foraging optimization algorithm (Saha et al, 2013c) and Seeker optimization algorithm (SOA) . However, a common limitation with most of the optimization based FIR filter design techniques is that they aim at meeting a specific objective i.e.…”