A Memetic Approach for Improving Minimum Cost of Economic Load Dispatch Problems

Algorithm 2

The general structure of the memetic approach to metaheuristic for ELD.

Step  1. Initialization of the population for the parent generation

Step  2. Iterations

  Step  2.1. Creation of the population for the new generation

  Step  2.2. Competition among population

  Step  2.3. Population update

Step  3. Gradient-based local search

Step  4. Termination