Ant Colony Search, Advanced Engineered-Conditioning Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic Controlled Genetic Algorithms: Economic Dispatch Problems

Various novel search algorithms have been proposed in recent years, some of which have been described in some details in the previous chapters. This chapter is to present some newly developed techniques in the areas of natural phenomena inspired algorithms and hybridisations. The three algorithms described are: ant colony search [1,2], advanced engineered-conditioning genetic algorithm [3] and fuzzy logic controlled genetic algorithms [4]. Some test results on economic dispatch problems have also been given.