A Novel Adaptive Elite-Based Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to VAR Optimization in Electric Power Systems

Table 6

Performance of different methods used to minimize 𝑓₃ based on 10 simulation results (number of iterations = 1000).

		Proposed method	PSO	CPSO	DE	GA
Best 𝑓3	𝑓3	0.0004	0.0195	3.53𝑒−02	0.6151	0.3880
	Time (s)	0.1941	0.0820	0.1221	0.8560	2.7651
Mean	𝑓3	0.0129	0.0779	0.1293	0.6953	0.7267
	Time (s)	0.1927	0.1031	0.1157	0.8649	2.7097
Worst 𝑓3	𝑓3	0.0472	0.1687	1.87𝑒−01	0.8114	0.9426
	Time (s)	0.1922	0.1033	0.1144	0.8706	2.5987