“…The genetic algorithm also gets the credit for being the first algorithm that was used in initial research works on wind farm design [12]. Until today, GA is being utilized in wind farm layout design problems [4,8,10,11,13,16,17]. Apart from GA, several other intelligent algorithms, such as simulated annealing [6,14,15], cuckoo search [3,7], imperialist competitive algorithm [9], differential evolution [16,17], and many others,have been employed for efficient layout design of a wind farm.…”