“…Most notably, Dynamic Programming (DP), Lagrangian Relaxation (LR), Linear Programming (LP), Quadratic Programming (QP), Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) as well as Artificial Intelligence based algorithms like Genetic Algorithm (GA), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Tabu Search (TS), Simulated Annealing (SA), Ant Colony Systems (ACS) have been proposed for solving the underlying optimization problem (Padhy, 2004;Yamin, 2004;Sen & Kothari, 1998;Sheble et al, 1994). Most recently, emerging techniques from Swarm Intelligence are being investigated for treating complex optimization problems .…”