Incorporation of Evolutionary Computation For Implementing The Benefit Of Inconvenience

The present paper discusses the relationship between evolutionary computation (EC) and further benefit of a kind of inconvenience (FUBEN-EKI), which is a research project to explore methods by which to design artifacts while appreciating the benefits of inconvenience. Evolutionary computation contributes to FUBEN-EKI both theoretically and practically. The design theory for implementing the benefits of inconvenience suggests that there are desirable systems between “a stick, a stone, or a handkerchief” and “an optimal system for a certain task.” Similarly, exploration vs. exploitation is a key issue in EC, which performs well when the balance between exploration and exploitation is desirable. The present paper also describes how EC contributes, in practice, to the implementation of an explanatory example of a FUBEN-EKI system that uses covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES), which is a type of EC, to extract features from multi-dimensional time-series data.