Biogeography-Based Optimization for short-term hydrothermal scheduling

This paper presents Biogeography Based Optimization or BBO technique to determine short term hydrothermal scheduling, taking into account most of the equality and inequality operating constraints. Biogeography deals with the geographical distribution of biological species. Mathematical models of biogeography describe how a species arises, migrates from one habitat to another and gets wiped out The proposed algorithm has been found to perform better in terms of computational time and minimum fuel cost, due to which this method seems to be a promising alternative approach for solving the hydrothermal scheduling problems in practical power system.