backwardelimination.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
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 *  web:   http://yale.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
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package edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.features;

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

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

/** 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.
 *
 *  @author ingo
 *  @version $Id: BackwardElimination.java,v 2.3 2003/08/23 18:55:49 mierswa Exp $
 */
public class BackwardElimination extends IndividualOperator {

    public List operate(AttributeWeightedExampleSet es) {
	List l = new LinkedList();
	if (es instanceof AttributeSelectionExampleSet) {
	    AttributeSelectionExampleSet exampleSet = (AttributeSelectionExampleSet)es;
	    for (int i = 0; i < exampleSet.getNumberOfAttributes(); i++) {
		if (exampleSet.isAttributeUsed(i)) {
		    AttributeSelectionExampleSet nes = (AttributeSelectionExampleSet)exampleSet.clone();
		    nes.setAttributeUsed(i, false);
		    l.add(nes);
		}
	    }
	} else {
	    l.add(es);
	}
	return l;
    }
}