Evaluating approaches to adaptive landscape visualization construction

Abstract

The construction of an adaptive landscape visualization entails the representation of the higher dimensional chromosome space onto a two-dimensional plane from which a depiction of the landscape can be created. Although it can sometimes be difficult to justify the investment of computational expense necessary to perform this representation properly, Van Wijk's visualization model is ideally suited for use as a framework in which to compare different adaptive landscape visualizations. This model is used to demonstrate that an adaptive landscape visualization that is constructed with an established multidimensional scaling technique will result in a visualization that imparts more accurate insights, and is thus more valuable, than one that does not first attempt a multidimensional scaling of the chromosome space.