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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

PopulationOperator

public class ForwardSelection
extends IndividualOperator

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

Version:

$Id: ForwardSelection.java,v 1.3 2006/08/03 14:39:29 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Field Summary

private ExampleSet

original

Constructor Summary

ForwardSelection(ExampleSet original)

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

Field Detail

original

private ExampleSet original

Constructor Detail

ForwardSelection

public ForwardSelection(ExampleSet original)

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