“…While the effectiveness of the approach was validated in some benchmark cases involving fewer test systems, for large power systems, it suffers from the curse of dimensionality due to the matrix size and coupled with the sequentiality of the algorithm. Evolutionary and other stochastic methods such as: Genetic Algorithm (GA) [12], Fuzzy Logic (FL) [13], Artificial Neural Network (ANN) [7], Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) [4], Differential Evolution [14], Simulated Annealing (SA) [15], their hybrids and variants including: Hopfield Neural Network/Quadratic Programming [16], Harmony Search Algorithm [17], Evolutionary Programming/Sequential Quadratic Programming [18], Fuzzy Logic/Simulated Annealing [19], etc, have attracted great interest in the recent past for realising optimal solutions, and applied to solve DELD problems. These algorithms are population-based search methods, with random control parameters, and use probabilistic rules to update the positions of their potential solutions in the search space.…”