edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.selection
Class BackwardElimination

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.IndividualOperator
      edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.selection.BackwardElimination

All Implemented Interfaces:

PopulationOperator

public class BackwardElimination
extends IndividualOperator

This PopulationOperator realises backward elimination, i.e. creates a list of clones of each individual and switches of one attribute in each of the clones.

Version:

$Id: BackwardElimination.java,v 1.1 2006/04/14 11:42:27 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Constructor Summary

BackwardElimination()

Method Summary

java.util.List<Individual>

operate(Individual individual) Subclasses must implement this method providing a list of new individuals.

Methods inherited from class edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.IndividualOperator

operate, performOperation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BackwardElimination

public BackwardElimination()

Method Detail

operate

public java.util.List<Individual> operate(Individual individual)

Description copied from class: IndividualOperator

Subclasses must implement this method providing a list of new individuals. individual will be removed from the population so it might be useful to return a list of size 1 containing only the modified individual. If the original individual should also be part of the new population it must also be added to the result list.

Specified by:

operate in class IndividualOperator