“…In regard to the domain of signal extraction and forecasting, GA has certainly played an active role in the recent decades. Some of the selected topics include: bankruptcy prediction [13][14][15], credit scoring [16,17], crude oil price [18][19][20], tourism demand [21][22][23], the beta systematic risk [24], financial data [25,26], gas demand [27], electric load [28,29], wind speed [30], rainfall [31], etc. Via comprehensively exploring existing literature, it came to our attention that although GA has been applied jointly with many data analytics techniques in practice, to name a few, neural network, principal component analysis, wavelet analysis, long and short memory network, support vector machines.…”