A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm Approach to Construction of Trading Agents for Artificial Market Study

  • Authors:
  • Rikiya Fukumoto;Hajime Kita

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Joint JSAI 2001 Workshop on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

To construct agents that have trading strategies with adequate rationality and variety is an intrinsic requirement for artificial market study. Difference of preference to return and risk among agents will be one candidate reason of variety of the trading strategies. It can be treated as a multi-objective optimization problem taking both criteria as objective functions. This paper proposes a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) approach to construction of trading agents for an artificial market. The U-Mart system, an artificial market simulator, is used for a test bed. Agents are evaluated in the U-Mart with other agents having simple strategies, and evolved with the MOGA. Computer simulation shows that various agents having non-dominated trading strategies can be obtained with this approach.