“…In the years since these pioneering works, the imaginativeness of researchers has continued to flourish. New metaheuristic methods have been applied to the CHP dispatch problem such as cuckoo search [23][24][25][26], invasive weed optimization [27], the artificial immune system algorithm [28], the firefly algorithm [29], krill herd optimization [30], the harmony search algorithm [31][32][33][34], grey wolf optimization [35,36], whale optimization [37], and the hybridizing bat algorithm with artificial bee colony [38]. This is by no means an exhaustive list of metaheuristic approaches investigated.…”