Solving Power Economic Dispatch Problem with a Novel Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

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Figure 1: Solving Power Economic Dispatch Problem with a Novel Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm 