Evaluating landscape characteristics of dynamic benchmark functions

This work provides a landscape analysis of the dynamic benchmark functions commonly used in multi-modal optimization. The benchmark analysis results reveal that the mechanisms responsible for dynamism in the current dynamic benchmarks do not significantly affect landscape features; thus suggesting a lack of representation for problems whose landscape features vary over time.

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