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Abstract : Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), are the bio-inspired algorithms to solve optimisation problems. Numerous works are in the pipeline for studying their behaviour on complex problems. This work is carried out in three phases. In phase 1, a comparative analysis of two population initialisation (PI) techniques of EAs was done. The results showed that DE performs better with opposition-based learning PI (OBLPI) than with the random PI (RPI) technique. The phase 2 analysed the performance of DE in solving the multi-objective optimisation problems (MOOP) with RPI and OBLPI techniques. This analysis revealed that DE with OBLPI and RPI performed well for problems with lower and higher population sizes, respectively. In phase 3, DE was used solving the radio frequency identification (RFID) reader placement problem, for buildings with single room and multiple rooms of different sizes. The design of experiment, the results obtained and the inferences are presented in this paper.