“…Related Research Works Genetic Algorithm (GA) [5], [10], [21], [28]- [36] Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) [6], [7], [40]- [52], [58] Differential Evolution (DE) [1], [3], [8], [9], [11]- [18], [60] Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) [53] Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) [54] Artificial Immune System (AIS) [56] Elitistic Evolution (EEv) [57] has outperformed the standard bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) with a larger population size [54]. For the environmental economic dispatch case study, a chaotic micro-bacterial foraging algorithm (CMBFA) with a time-varying chemotactic step size is proposed in [55].…”