“…Recently, stochastic search algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA) [5], evolutionary programming (EP) [6], genetic algorithm (GA) [7,8], evolutionary programming technique [9], differential evolution (DE) [10][11][12], particle swarm optimization [13], artificial immune system [14], clonal selection algorithm [15] and teaching learning based optimization [16] have been successfully used to solve hydrothermal scheduling problem.…”