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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 456047, 18 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/456047
Research Article

A New Hybrid Nelder-Mead Particle Swarm Optimization for Coordination Optimization of Directional Overcurrent Relays

An Liu1,2 and Ming-Ta Yang3

1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, St. John's University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan
2Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung Hsiao East Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
3Department of Electrical Engineering, St. John's University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan

Received 18 February 2012; Revised 26 April 2012; Accepted 10 May 2012

Academic Editor: Jianming Shi

Copyright © 2012 An Liu and Ming-Ta Yang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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