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An Overview Of Optimization

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

This chapter is discussed about the project background, the problem of the project, the objective of the project and project scope.

1.1 PROJECT MOTIVATION

With the development of artificial intelligence in recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms inspired by the observation of natural phenomena. We can see that all the algorithms are good replacements as method to solve complex computational problems.

Various heuristic approaches have been adopted by researches including genetic algorithm (Holland 1975), simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick et al. 1983), immune system (Farmer et al. 1986), ant system (Dorigo et al. 1996) and particle swarm optimization (Kennedy and Eberhart 1995; Kennedy and Eberhart 1997).

All the above heuristics involve the desired problem solution from iterative cycles of iterations between the population members. Unfortunately, no algorithm can solve all the optimization problems and have some algorithms can be the best solution for a few problems than the others.

Optimization problems are widely encountered in various fields in science and technology. Sometimes such problems can be very complex due to the actual and practical nature of the objective function or the model constraints. Most of power system optimization problems have complex and nonlinear characteristics with heavy equality and inequality constraints.

Optimization is the important process to many systems in industry and it will produce

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