source: branches/2915-AbsoluteSymbol/HeuristicLab.Problems.NK/3.3/BinaryVectorComparers/MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer.cs @ 16659

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using System.Linq;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Encodings.BinaryVectorEncoding;
using HeuristicLab.Persistence.Default.CompositeSerializers.Storable;

namespace HeuristicLab.Problems.NK {
  [Item("Median Bit Binary Vector Comparer", "Compares two binary vectors by the median positive bit location")]
  [StorableClass]
  public sealed class MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer : Item, IBinaryVectorComparer {
    [StorableConstructor]
    private MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer(bool deserializing) : base(deserializing) { }
    private MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer(MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer original, Cloner cloner)
      : base(original, cloner) { }
    public MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer() { }
    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new MedianBitBinaryVectorComparer(this, cloner);
    }

    private static int MedianBit(BinaryVector x) {
      var activeIndices = x.Select((b, i) => new { b, i }).Where(v => v.b).ToList();
      if (activeIndices.Count > 0)
        return activeIndices[activeIndices.Count / 2].i;
      else
        return 0;
    }

    public int Compare(BinaryVector x, BinaryVector y) {
      return MedianBit(x) - MedianBit(y);
    }
  }
}