Optimization of Economic Environmental Dispatch (eed) Using Recent Modified Abc Variants

This paper presents a study on optimization of a complex real-world application; economic environmental dispatch (EED) using two recently proposed modified ABC variants, named as JA-ABC3 and JA-ABC4a. EED is known to be a problem that is difficult yet crucial to be solved. Thus, robust optimization algorithms are needed to solve this kind of problem. JA-ABC3 and JA-ABC4a are recently proposed ABC variants claimed to perform better than the standard ABC as well as other existing variants. Their performances in optimizing EED are compared with the standard ABC algorithm, the existing ABC variants as well as other optimization algorithms. Those observations and evaluations are done in order to identify which variants would give the best optimal solution. The results clearly depict the superior performances of JA-ABC3 and JA-ABC4a in comparison to others in solving 10-generator unit system EED problem.