edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features
Interface PopulationOperator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AttributeGenerator, BackwardElimination, BestSelection, BoltzmannSelection, ConstantGeneration, CutSelection, DirectedGeneratingMutation, EquivalentAttributeRemoval, ForwardSelection, FourierGeneratingMutation, FourierGenerator, GeneratingMutation, IndividualOperator, IterativeFeatureAdding, KeepBest, NonDominatedSortingSelection, PopulationPlotter, RankSelection, RedundanceRemoval, RemoveUselessAttributes, RouletteWheel, SelectionCrossover, SelectionMutation, SimpleWeighting, StochasticUniversalSampling, SwitchingForwardSelection, TournamentSelection, UnbalancedCrossover, UniformSelection, VarianceAdaption, WeightingCrossover, WeightingMutation

public interface PopulationOperator

An operator that modifies populations.

Version:

$Id: PopulationOperator.java,v 2.11 2006/03/21 15:35:42 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Method Summary

void	operate(Population pop) Modifies the population.
boolean	performOperation(int generation) Indicates if the operation should be performed in the given generation.

Method Detail

operate

void operate(Population pop)
             throws java.lang.Exception

Modifies the population.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

performOperation

boolean performOperation(int generation)

Indicates if the operation should be performed in the given generation. Allows pop ops which works only in a part of the generations.