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Abstract

A Modified Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm for Economic Dispatch (ED) problem has been proposed. The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm which is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarm gives a solution procedure for solving economic dispatch problem. It provides solution more effective than Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). However, ABC is good at exploration but poor at exploitation; its convergence speed is also an issue in some cases. To overcome this deficiency, this paper proposes a Modified ABC algorithm (MABC). The performance of the proposed algorithm (MABC) is applied to and tested on IEEE- 6 unit and IEEE- 13 unit systems. The results of the proposed algorithm are compared with that obtained by the basic ABC algorithm, lambda - iteration method to prove the validity and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.