economic dispatch with valve point effect and prohibited operating zones (pozs) is a non-convex and discontinuous optimization problem. harmony search (hs) is one of the recently presented meta-heuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems, which has different variants. the performances of these variants are severely affected by selection of different parameters of the algorithm. intel...

‎a common approach to determine efficient solutions of a multiple objective optimization problem‎ ‎is reformulating it to a parameter dependent scalar optimization problem‎. ‎this reformulation is called scalarization approach‎. here, a well-known scalarization approach named pascoletti-serafini scalarization is considered‎. first, some difficulties of this scalarization are discussed and then ...