Definitions for "Fitness landscape"
Apart from the field of evolutionary biology, the concept of a Fitness Landscape has gained importance in evolutionary optimization methods such as genetic algorithms or evolutionary strategies. In evolutionary optimization, one tries to solve real-world problems (e.g., engineering or logistics problems) by imitating the dynamics of biological evolution...
a distribution of fitness values over the space of genotypes
a graph where each point of the search space is a node with its associated fitness
A representation of how mutations can change the fitness of one or more organisms.