Metaheuristic Approaches for Hydropower System Scheduling

Table 4

Parameters of the algorithms: GA, SPEA, and ACO.

GA		GA + SPEA		ACO
Selection	Roulette	Selection	Elitism		2
Crossover	One point	Crossover	One point		5
Cross rate	0.9	Cross. rate	0.9	Pheromone	0.0001
Mutation	Inversion	Mutation	Inversion	Evap. rate	0.5
Mut. rate	0.1	Mut. rate	0.1	Ants	2000
Individuals	100	Individuals	100	Iterations	50
Iterations	50	Iterations	50	—	—
—	—	Ext. archive	40	—	—