net.openai.ai.ga.selection.common
Class SelectComplement

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

SelectionAlgorithm

public class SelectComplement

extends java.lang.Object

implements SelectionAlgorithm

SelectComplement is a SelectionAlgorithm that will return the complement of the results of two specified SelectionAlgorithms.

Since:

JDK1.3

Version:

%I%, %G%

Author:

Jared Grubb

Constructor Summary

SelectComplement(SelectionAlgorithm toComplement)
Creates a new SelectComplement object for taking the complement of the Populations returned by the two passed SelectionAlgorithms.

Method Summary

Population

selectFromPopulation(Population pop) Returns a Population that represents the complement (disjunction) of the SelectionAlgorithm specified in the constructor.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SelectComplement

public SelectComplement(SelectionAlgorithm toComplement)

Creates a new SelectComplement object for taking the complement of the Populations returned by the two passed SelectionAlgorithms.

Parameters:

toComplement - the first SelectionAlgorithm

Method Detail

selectFromPopulation

public Population selectFromPopulation(Population pop)

Returns a Population that represents the complement (disjunction) of the SelectionAlgorithm specified in the constructor. The return is a new Population clone of the specified Population with all results of the selection algorithm removed from it via the Population.removeCells method.

Specified by:

selectFromPopulation in interface SelectionAlgorithm

Parameters:

pop - the Population to choose from

Returns:

the complement Population of the selection algorithm