An Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm solution to Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problem

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1763-1770

  Aristidis, Vlachos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; Ant System; Ant System with elitist strategy; Economic Load Dispatch

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ANT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC LOAD DISPATCH; ELITIST STRATEGY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33746879901     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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