Improved differential evolution approach based on cultural algorithm and diversity measure applied to solve economic load dispatch problems

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3136-3147

  Coelho, Leandro dos Santos ^a   Souza, Rodrigo Clemente Thom ^a   Mariani, Viviana Cocco ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cultural algorithm; Differential evolution; Economic dispatch; Evolutionary algorithms; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; COMPETITION STRATEGY; COMPUTER-BASED PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; CULTURAL ALGORITHM; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; DIVERSITY MEASURE; ECONOMIC DISPATCH; ECONOMIC LOAD DISPATCH PROBLEM; GLOBAL SEARCH CAPABILITY; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; KEY ELEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MUTATION OPERATORS; NON-SMOOTH FUEL COST FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL BENCHMARK; OPTIMIZATION AND DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; REAL-WORLD OPTIMIZATION; RELIABLE PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SIMULATION RESULT; STOCHASTIC SEARCH METHODS; TEST SYSTEMS; THERMAL GENERATORS; VALVE-POINT LOADING EFFECT;

BENCHMARKING; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67349234197     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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