“…This is the New England System which has 10 generating units, 39 buses and 46 transmission lines with quadratic cost curves, the requirement being to schedule over a period of 12 h (Attaviriyanupap et al, 2002) 1,051,163 --EP (Attaviriyanupap et al, 2002) 1,048,638 -80 £ 50,000 Hybrid EP -SQP (Attaviriyanupap et al, 2002) 1,031,746 -60 £ 30,000 MHEP -SQP (Victoire & Jeyakumar, 2005a) 1,028,924 1,031,179 60 £ 30,000 PSO -SQP (Victoire & Jeyakumar, 2005b) 1,027,334 1,028,546 100 £ 30,000 Modified DE (Yuan et al, 2008) 1,031,612 1,033,630 100 £ 20,000 QEA (Babu et al, 2008) 1,022,422 1,024,340 -hybrid DE 1,031,077 -100 £ 10,000 Shor's r-algorithm 1,038,976 --IPSO 1,023,807 1,026,863 20 £ 2000 AHDE (Lu et al, 2010) 1,020,082 1,022,474 60 £ 2000 CE (Immanuel Selvakumar, 2011) 1,022,701 1,024,024 50 £ 1000 ECE (Immanuel Selvakumar, 2011) 1,022,271 1,023,334 50 £ 1000 Chaotic sequence-based DE (He et al, 2011) 1,023,432 1,026,475 600 £ 410 ABC (Hemamalini & Simon, 2011a) 1,021,576 1,022,686 200 £ 300 PSO (Hemamalini & Simon, 2011a) 1,027,679 1,031,716 200 £ 300 GA (Hemamalini & Simon, 2011a) 1,033,481 1,038,014 200 £ 300 AIS (Hemamalini & Simon, 2011b) 1,021,980 1,023,156 100 £ 300 HQPSO (Chakraborty et al, 2011) 1,031,559 1,033,837 50 £ 1500 HHS (Pandi & Panigrahi, 2011) 1,019,091 -100 £ 2000 IGA -NSPF (Ganjefar & Tofighi, 2011) 1,019,145 1,021,453 100 £ 6000 Hybrid DE -SQP (Elaiw et al, 2012) 1,030,500 -60 £ 20,000 BCO-SQP (Basu, 2013) 1,032,200 -200 £ 300 CSDE/best/1 1,019,536 1,022,883 10 £ 6000 Q. Niu et al 18 Table 11. Best solution obtained using the CSDE/best/1 method for power system 1.…”