C.22:12.1 - SoTA-Echoing
Wolpert and Macready’s “No Free Lunch Theorems for Optimization”, 1997, remains historical lineage for the warning that method superiority is distribution-dependent. It does not by itself supply the current C.22 field set, a selector policy, or evidence that one TaskSignature is adequate. The current sources below change the pattern by value.
| Current source and status | Adopted or adapted move | Effect in C.22 | Limitation and review condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Jiao, “Towards rigorous problem formulation for engineering design research: from motivations to measurable claims via metric-measure-method”, Journal of Engineering Design 37, 2026; Szajnfarber, Lifshitz, and Tushman, “Beyond translation: how context work during problem formulation enables effective solving by outsiders”, 2026 research article. | Adopt problem-before-method formulation, operational characteristics and measures, and a named decision or action that will use the result. Adapt context work into the signature’s exact task or work target, direct declaration fields, Vocabulary, and Applicability plus the problem-side and receiving-use slots of TaskSignatureAssignmentRelation. | Changes the working question, local mantra, signature content, assignment relation, reliance replay, and the manufacturing and clinical transfer cases. A fashionable method or available dataset cannot define the TaskSignature or its assignment. | These sources study engineering research formulation and outsider problem solving; they do not establish FPF kinds or one universal signature schema. Review the adaptation if later cross-domain evidence overturns the importance of measurable problem characteristics or receiving-use locality. |
| Cenikj, Kudela, Tuba, and Eftimov, “Evaluating Real-World Generalizability of Algorithm Selection Models”, current June 2026 conference-linked paper and arXiv version. | Adopt measurable problem characteristics as selector inputs and the empirical warning that transfer between benchmark and real-world landscapes can fail. | Changes ScopeSlice(G), evidence and currentness relations, crossing discipline, unknown handling, and the rule that an old selector result reopens only when it depended on a changed field. | The study concerns optimization landscapes and algorithm-selection models, not all methods or sectors. Do not infer universal transfer failure or a complete TaskSignature field list from its benchmark set. |
| Qin et al., “A survey on Quality-Diversity optimization: Approaches, applications, and challenges”, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 100, 2026; Lin et al., “Quality-Diversity Optimization as Multi-Objective Optimization”, current 2026 preprint. | Adopt collection-valued QD results, user-declared behavior or characteristic space, explicit containers and policies, and set-aware comparison. Adapt the MOO reformulation as one current option rather than the definition of QD. | Changes the optional QD positions, DominanceRegime, report-only illumination boundary, archive case, and refusal of one default scalar score. | The survey is broad but QD-specific; the MOO reformulation is a current preprint and one competing approach. Neither authorizes every diversity measure to enter dominance. Review when stronger comparative evidence changes container, metric, or scalarization treatment. |
| SciML, “Problem Interface” and “Common Solver Options”, living documentation generated in June 2026. | Adapt the practical separation between a constructed problem value and later solver dispatch, plus explicit problem remake when fields change. | Changes the ODE case and the smallest-repair rule: a semantic field change requires C.22:5.2’s identity, membership, and edition-continuity checks, and a changed problem-side or receiving-use episteme requires the assignment to be checked again before selector replay; solver implementation does not become the problem or TaskSignature. | This is current software practice, not a transdomain ontology and not evidence that every project needs an immutable software record. Review on material interface or dispatch changes; preserve the general separation only while it continues to improve the declared use. |