source: branches/2839_HiveProjectManagement/HeuristicLab.Encodings.IntegerVectorEncoding/3.3/SimilarityCalculators/EuclideanSimilarityCalculator.cs @ 17912

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using System;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Optimization.Operators;
using HeuristicLab.Persistence.Default.CompositeSerializers.Storable;

namespace HeuristicLab.Encodings.IntegerVectorEncoding {
  [Item("Euclidean Similarity Calculator for IntegerVector", "Calculates the solution similarity based on the Euclidean distance and a transformation into (0;1] between two integer vectors.")]
  [StorableClass]
  public sealed class EuclideanSimilarityCalculator : SingleObjectiveSolutionSimilarityCalculator {
    protected override bool IsCommutative {
      get { return true; }
    }

    [Storable]
    private double scaling;
    /// <summary>
    /// The higher the scaling, the higher the similarity score for solutions of larger Euclidean distance.
    /// A value of 1 means no scaling is applied. The function for squashing the numbers into (0;1] is
    /// 1 / (1 + x / scaling) where x is the Euclidean distance.
    /// </summary>
    public double Scaling {
      get { return scaling; }
      set { scaling = value; }
    }

    [StorableConstructor]
    private EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(bool deserializing) : base(deserializing) { }
    private EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(EuclideanSimilarityCalculator original, Cloner cloner)
      : base(original, cloner) {
      scaling = original.scaling;
    }
    public EuclideanSimilarityCalculator() {
      scaling = 1;
    }

    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(this, cloner);
    }

    public static double CalculateSimilarity(IntegerVector left, IntegerVector right, double scaling = 1.0) {
      if (left == null || right == null)
        throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because one or both of the provided solutions is null.");
      if (left.Length != right.Length)
        throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because the provided solutions have different lengths.");
      if (left.Length == 0)
        throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because solutions are of length 0.");
      if (scaling <= 0)
        throw new ArgumentException("Cannot choose a 0 or negative scaling value.");
      if (ReferenceEquals(left, right)) return 1.0;

      var distance = 0.0;
      for (int i = 0; i < left.Length; i++)
        distance += (left[i] - right[i]) * (left[i] - right[i]);
      return 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.Sqrt(distance) / scaling);

    }

    public override double CalculateSolutionSimilarity(IScope leftSolution, IScope rightSolution) {
      var left = leftSolution.Variables[SolutionVariableName].Value as IntegerVector;
      var right = rightSolution.Variables[SolutionVariableName].Value as IntegerVector;

      return CalculateSimilarity(left, right, Scaling);
    }
  }
}