A Study on Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms and its Applications to Economics and Finance

Abstract:- The use of evolutionary algorithms in diversified application domains has gained ever increasing popularity in the last few years producing a wide range of interesting applications ranging from engineering and computer science to ecology, sociology and medicine. From these diversified application areas of evolutionary algorithms, economics and finance constitutes a very promising field. The use of evolutionary algorithms for solving multi-objective optimization problem emerges as a potential field of research in recent years. This paper presents the use of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for solving problems in economics and finance. Different applications of MOEA are explained briefly and a specific simulation work has been done for one particular application i.e. investment portfolio optimization. Index Terms — Multi-objective optimization, Pareto