Efficient and cost-effective coordination of online generation facilities is essential to the
reliable operation multi-area power system (PS) especially in a deregulated environment …

A number of modern metaheuristic optimization techniques are being exploited to work out a
single-objective economic dispatch (ED) problem. The dispatch problems even become …

This article presents a new evolutionary optimization approach named grey wolf
optimization (GWO), which is based on the behaviour of grey wolves, for the optimal …

This paper presents a novel evolutionary optimization algorithm namely the modified crow
search algorithm (MCSA) for solving the non-convex economic load dispatch (ELD) problem …

A modified cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is proposed to solve economic dispatch (ED)
problems that have non-convex, non-continuous or non-linear solution spaces considering …

In this study we present a new and effective grouping optimization algorithm (namely, the
Turbulent Flow of Water-based Optimization (TFWO)), inspired from a nature search …

Scientists have long looked to nature and biology in order to understand and model
solutions for complex real-world problems. The study of bionics bridges the functions …

This paper presents backtracking search algorithm (BSA) for solving economic dispatch
(ED) problems with considering valve-point loading effects, prohibited operating zones, and …

Owing to no free lunch theorem, meta-heuristic search algorithms, behaviour and
performance are different for solving specific class of optimization problems than another …

Concrete filled steel tubes (CFSTs) show advantageous applications in the field of
construction, especially for a high axial load capacity. The challenge in using such structure …