“…To eliminate the RPD problems, various optimization algorithms have been implemented over a period of time to achieve the optimal results. Some of the known stochastic methods implemented for solution of RPD problem includes the linear programming (LP) [ 7 ], interior point method (IPM) [ 8 ], quadratic programming (QP) [ 9 ], genetic algorithm (GA) [ 10 ], particle swarm optimization (PSO) [ 11 , 12 ], multi-objective optimization particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm [ 13 ], fractional Order PSO (FO-PSO) [ 6 ], harmony search algorithm (HSA) [ 14 ], gaussian bare-bones water cycle algorithm (NGBWCA) [ 15 ], tabu search (TS) [ 16 ], comprehensive learning particle swarm optimization [ 17 ], teaching learning based optimization (TLBO) [ 18 ], adaptive GA (AGA) [ 19 ], seeker optimization algorithm (SOA) [ 20 ], jaya algorithm [ 21 ], differential evolution (DE) [ 2 , 3 , 5 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ], Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm [ 26 ], Hybrid Artificial Physics PSO [ 27 ], improved antlion optimization algorithm [ 28 ], Chaotic Bat Algorithm [ 29 ], classification-based Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm [ 30 ], evolution strategies (ES) [ 31 ], evolutionary programming (EP) [ 32 ], firefly algorithm (FA) [ 33 ], gravitation search optimization algorithm (GSA) [ 34 , 35 ], bacteria foraging optimization (BFO) [ 36 ], bio-geography-based optimization algorithm (BBO) [ 37 ] and grey wolf based optimizer algorithm (GWO) [ 38 ]. In 2017, another advanced optimizer has also been applied to the problems RPD known as gradient-based WCA (GWCA) [ 39 , 40 ] and results demonstrate the relevance and pr...…”