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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

PopulationOperator

public class SelectionMutation
extends IndividualOperator

Inverts the used bit for every feature of every example set with a given fixed probability.

Version:

$Id: SelectionMutation.java,v 1.1 2006/04/14 07:47:17 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Field Summary

private double	probability
private java.util.Random	random

Constructor Summary

SelectionMutation(double probability, java.util.Random random)

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

probability

private double probability

random

private java.util.Random random

Constructor Detail

SelectionMutation

public SelectionMutation(double probability,
                         java.util.Random random)

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