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

Table 6

Test results and comparison.

Algorithm	Minimum cost ($)
Chaotic differential evolution and quadratic programming [54]	121,741.9700
PSO [55]	121,735.4700
Hybrid differential evolution [56]	121,698.5100
New PSO [57]	121,664.4300
Antipredatory PSO [55]	121,663.5200
Self-organizing hierarchical PSO [58]	121,501.1400
Biography-based optimization [59]	121,479.5000
GA-PS-SQP [60]	121,458,0000
Bacterial foraging [61]	121,423.6300
Harmony search (HS) [36]	121,415.4560
Memetic harmony search (this study)	121,415.4525
Pattern search [62]	121,415.1400
Firefly algorithm (FA) [33]	121,415.0522
Memetic firefly algorithm (this study)	121,414.9137
Honey bee mating optimization (HBMO) [34]	121,412.5704
Memetic HBMO (this study)	121,412.5702