individualoperator.java

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/*
 *  YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment
 *  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003
 *      Simon Fischer, Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, 
 *          Katharina Morik, Oliver Ritthoff
 *      Artificial Intelligence Unit
 *      Computer Science Department
 *      University of Dortmund
 *      44221 Dortmund,  Germany
 *  email: [e-mail]
 *  web:   http://yale.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
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package edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features;

import edu.udo.cs.yale.example.ExampleSet;
import edu.udo.cs.yale.example.AttributeWeightedExampleSet;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;

/** A <tt>PopulationOperator</tt> that modifies a population by modifying
 *  all individuals independently.
 *
 *  @author simon
 *  @version $Id: IndividualOperator.java,v 2.5 2003/08/24 22:42:33 mierswa Exp $ <br>
 */
public abstract class IndividualOperator implements PopulationOperator {

    /** Subclasses must implement this method providing a list of new
     *  individuals (of class ExampleSet). <tt>exampleSet</tt> will be removed
     *  from the population so it might be useful to return a list of size 1 containing
     *  only the modified <tt>exampleSet</tt>. */
    public abstract List operate(AttributeWeightedExampleSet exampleSet) throws Exception;

    /** Operates on all individuals, removes the original individuals and
     *  adds the new ones. */
    public void operate(Population pop) throws Exception {
	List newIndividuals = new LinkedList();
	for (int i = 0; i < pop.getNumberOfIndividuals(); i++) {
	    List individuals = operate(pop.get(i));
	    newIndividuals.addAll(individuals);
	}
	//pop.clear();
	ListIterator i = newIndividuals.listIterator();
	while (i.hasNext())
	    pop.add((AttributeWeightedExampleSet)i.next());
    }

}