“…The methods available for DG allocation problem can be broadly categorized as analytical approaches and heuristic method‐based approaches. Heuristic methods include genetic algorithms (GA), ant colony optimization, simulated annealing, tabu search (TS), particle swarm optimization, artificial bee colony algorithm, shuffled bat algorithm, GA with point estimate method, modified simulated annealing, and harmony search with differential operator . Population‐based heuristic methods are widely adapted in both operational and planning studies because of their efficient handling of multiple constraint criteria.…”