Research Article

An Improved Symbiosis Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Economic Load Dispatch Problem

Table 5

Outputted results without considering the valve-point effect.

AlgorithmsBest ($)Worst ($)Mean ($)

ISPSO6.85e+037.03e+036.94e+03
PSO8.19e+038.19e+038.19e+03
ICPSO7.53e+038.19e+037.98e+03
SOS8.19e+038.19e+038.19e+03