edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.weighting
Class SimpleWeighting

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.IndividualOperator
      edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features.weighting.SimpleWeighting

All Implemented Interfaces:

PopulationOperator

public class SimpleWeighting
extends IndividualOperator

This PopulationOperator realises a simple weighting, i.e. creates a list of clones of each individual and weights one attribute in each of the clones with some different weights.

Version:

$Id: SimpleWeighting.java,v 1.16 2006/08/03 14:39:35 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Ingo Mierswa

Field Summary

private double	compareWeight If a weight is equal to this compare weight, all weights are used for building a new individual.
private double[]	weights These weights are used for building new individuals.

Constructor Summary

SimpleWeighting(double compareWeight, double[] weights)
Creates a simple weighting.

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

compareWeight

private double compareWeight

If a weight is equal to this compare weight, all weights are used for building a new individual.

weights

private double[] weights

These weights are used for building new individuals.

Constructor Detail

SimpleWeighting

public SimpleWeighting(double compareWeight,
                       double[] weights)

Creates a simple weighting.

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