source: branches/Breadcrumbs/HeuristicLab.Selection/3.3/RightChildReducer.cs @ 11503

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

namespace HeuristicLab.Selection {
  /// <summary>
  /// Reduces the sub-scopes, so that the selected sub-scope contains all selected leaves (1) and (2)
  /// and the remaining sub-scope contains the sub-scopes of the bottom-most remaining scope (3).
  /// <pre>                                                      
  ///                  scope            scope  
  ///                   / \             /   \      
  ///                  R   S(1)   =>   R     S                 
  ///                 / \     \       /|\   /|\       
  ///               R(3) S(2)  C     ABCDEF  CDEF      
  ///               /|\  /|\                              
  ///             ABCDEF DEF                             
  /// </pre>
  /// </summary>
  [Item("RightChildReducer", "Merges all sub-scopes generated by successively selecting sub-scopes of the remaining part.")]
  [StorableClass]
  public class RightChildReducer : Reducer, IReducer {
    [StorableConstructor]
    protected RightChildReducer(bool deserializing) : base(deserializing) { }
    protected RightChildReducer(RightChildReducer original, Cloner cloner) : base(original, cloner) { }
    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new RightChildReducer(this, cloner);
    }
    public RightChildReducer() : base() { }
    /// <summary>
    ///  Reduces the sub-scopes, so that the selected sub-scope contains all selected leaves
    /// and the remaining sub-scope contains the sub-scopes of the bottom-most remaining scope.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="scope">The current scope to reduce.</param>
    /// <returns>A list of the new reduced sub scopes.</returns>
    protected override List<IScope> Reduce(List<IScope> scopes) {
      IScope rightChild = scopes[scopes.Count - 1];
      IScope leftChild = scopes[0];
      while (leftChild.SubScopes.Count > 1 && leftChild.SubScopes[0].SubScopes.Count > 0) {
        IScope leftRightChild = leftChild.SubScopes[leftChild.SubScopes.Count - 1];

        // merge right children
        while (leftRightChild.SubScopes.Count > 0) {
          IScope leftRightChildChild = leftRightChild.SubScopes[0];
          leftRightChild.SubScopes.RemoveAt(0);
          rightChild.SubScopes.Add(leftRightChildChild);
        }

        leftChild = leftChild.SubScopes[0];
      }
      List<IScope> subScopes = new List<IScope>();
      subScopes.Add(leftChild);
      subScopes.Add(rightChild);
      return subScopes;
    }
  }
}