A Systematic Literature Review of Solution-Space Visualization Approaches in the Context of Optimization Problems

The solution space of an optimization problem consists of all its feasible solutions. In this work, we present a systematic literature review on the application of Information Visualization (IV) techniques for understanding and exploring such solution spaces. The review was conducted on several search databases, and we identified 264 papers that satisfied our inclusion criteria. A performance filter was applied to these papers, and we further analyzed and extracted data from 65 of them. Our analysis shows that there are a variety of solution space visualization approaches and provides useful references to support further studies on the subject.