Metaheuristic design pattern: interactive solution presentation

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT In interactive metaheuristic search, the human helps to steer the trajectory of search by providing qualitative evaluations of solution individuals in the population. Given that much metaheuristic search is typically population-based, it is challenging to design the presentation of solutions such that the human can provide effective qualitative evaluation [1]. Naively presenting each individual in a large population at each generation causes evaluation fatigue and a subsequent non-linearity of user focus making search trajectory inconsistent and ineffective [2].