Said Gani

Quantifying the Explore-Exploit Trade-off in Metaheuristics via Normalised Positional Diversity

This study introduces a standardized framework based on a Normalized Positional Diversity Index (D*) to quantify optimizer behaviour and demonstrates that D* is a geometric generalization of existing measures, by replacing stochastic, path-dependent historical maximums with a fixed global upper bound anchored to the search space geometry.