“…The conventional techniques have a higher probability of becoming trapped in local minima solution due to the complex fuel cost function problem related to the highly nonlinear characteristic of present power generating units such as ramp rate limit and prohibited operating zones. Nowadays, in order to handle the nonlinear fuel cost function, many advanced optimization techniques based on nature-inspired meta-heuristic has been implemented on ELD such as Genetic Algorithm [6], Particle Swarm Optimization [7], Artificial Bee Colony [8,9], and Ant Colony Optimization [10], Cuckoo Search Algorithm [11,12], to name a few. In 2014, Mohseni, Gholami, Zarei and Zadeh [13] introduced a new meta-heuristic algorithm called Competition Over Resources (COR), inspired by a group of animal communities which compete for resources.…”