This paper presents the use of the improved harmony search method for solving economic load dispatch problems. The harmony search method mimics a jazz improvisation process by musicians in order to seek a fantastic state of harmony. To assess the searching performance of the proposed method, a six-unit thermal generating system acquired from the standard IEEE 30-bus test system was challenged. ...

The paper describes software combining parametric geometric modeling with a version of the harmony search method, modified to support multimodal structural optimization. Researchers have recognized the potential of population-based optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms, to support multimodal optimization: that is, generating a diverse range of good alternative solutions, rather than ...

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) technology shows great interest in the recent scientific literatures. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a interconnection of energy storage of PHEVs and grid. By implementation of V2G dependencies of the power system on small expensive conventional units can be reduced, resulting in reduced operational cost. This paper represents an intelligent unit commitment (UC...