Khums Optimization Algorithm

Abstract

This paper proposes new algorithm called Khums Optimization Algorithm (KOA). KOA is a population based algorithm like GA, BBO and PSO, and inspired from the religious Islamic tax objectives and execution. KOA has two process in searching the optimal solution:collection and distribution. In both process new candidate solution will be generated and ranked based on the objective function. furthermore this paper will explore the performance of KOA in solving 14 benchmark from the literature and compare the performance with other methods. Then it is used to solve the economic dispatch problem with valve point effect for three generator system and thirteen generator system.