“…The outcomes of these problems are beneficial to initiate different demand response actions and demand side flexibility assessment [7][8][9][10]. Several prominent optimizations algorithms that tried to solve these problems include: Genetic algorithm (GA) [11], simulated annealing (SA) [12], differential evolution (DE) [13,14], moth swarm optimization algorithm (MSA) [15], spider monkey optimization (SMO) [16], particle swarm optimization (PSO) [17,18], grey wolf optimizer (GWO) [19], gravitational search algorithm (GSA), fire fly algorithm (FFA) [20,21], harmony search algorithm (HSA) [22,23], spiral optimization algorithm (SOA) [24], squirrel search algorithm (SSA) [25], harris hawks optimization (HHO) [26], sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) [27], artificial bee colony (ABC) [28], bacterial forging algorithm (BFA) [29], flower pollination algorithm (FPA) [30], differential evolution (DE) [31], modified flower pollination algorithm (FPA) [32], , Fluid search optimization (FSO) [33], improved ABC (IABC) [34], modified BFA (MBFA) [35], whale optimization algorithm (WOA) [36], hybrid hierarchical evolution (HHE) [37], hybrid particle swarm gravitational search algorithm (PSOGSA) [38], chaos turbo PSO (CTPSO) [39], new global PSO (NGPSO) [40], multiobjective PSO (MOPSO) [41], multi-objective DE based PSO (MODE/PSO) [42] quantum inspired glowworm swarm optimization (QGSO) [43], combination of cont...…”