Kauffman's NK model defines a combinatorial phase space, consisting of every string (chosen from a given alphabet) of length N. For each string in this search space, a scalar value (called the fitness) is defined. If a distance metric is defined between strings, the resulting structure is a landscape. | Kauffman's NK model defines a combinatorial phase space, consisting of every string (chosen from a given alphabet) of length N. For each string in this search space, a scalar value (called the fitness) is defined. If a distance metric is defined between strings, the resulting structure is a landscape. |