A Novel Adaptive Elite-Based Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to VAR Optimization in Electric Power Systems

Table 4

Performance of different methods used to minimize 𝑓₂ based on 10 simulation results (number of iterations = 1000).

		Proposed method	PSO	CPSO	DE	GA
Best 𝑓2	𝑓2	0.0466	0.0258	65.8326	4.19𝑒−04	1.9769
	Time (s)	0.1152	0.0488	0.0545	0.6335	2.0670
Mean	𝑓2	0.0633	0.0717	70.1498	0.0037	6.1595
	Time (s)	0.1162	0.0493	0.0535	0.6406	2.1172
Worst 𝑓2	𝑓2	0.0816	0.1474	77.7252	0.0072	9.0414
	Time (s)	0.1157	0.0500	0.0543	0.6358	2.1768