source: branches/Parameter-less Population Pyramid/HeuristicLab.Algorithms.ParameterlessPopulationPyramid/3.3/Problems/HIFFProblem.cs @ 11838

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

namespace HeuristicLab.Algorithms.ParameterlessPopulationPyramid {
  // This code is based off the publication
  // B. W. Goldman and W. F. Punch, "Parameter-less Population Pyramid," GECCO, pp. 785–792, 2014
  // and the original source code in C++11 available from: https://github.com/brianwgoldman/Parameter-less_Population_Pyramid
  [Item("Hierararchical If and only If problem", "Genome evaluated in nested subsets to see if each subset contains either all 0s or all 1s.")]
  [StorableClass]
  [Creatable("Parameterless Population Pyramid")]
  public class HIFFProblem : BinaryVectorProblem {
    [StorableConstructor]
    protected HIFFProblem(bool deserializing) : base(deserializing) { }
    protected HIFFProblem(HIFFProblem original, Cloner cloner)
      : base(original, cloner) {
    }
    public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
      return new HIFFProblem(this, cloner);
    }

    public override bool Maximization {
      get { return true; }
    }

    public HIFFProblem() : base() {
      Length = 64;
    }
    // In the GECCO paper, Section 4.1
    public override double Evaluate(bool[] individual) {
      int[] level = new int[individual.Length];
      int levelLength = individual.Length;

      // Initialize the level to the current solution
      for (int i = 0; i < levelLength; i++) {
        level[i] = Convert.ToInt32(individual[i]);
      }
      int power = 1;
      int nextLength = levelLength / 2;
      int total = 0;
      int maximum = 0;

      // Keep going while the next level actual has bits in it
      while (nextLength > 0) {
        int[] nextLevel = new int[nextLength];
        // Construct the next level using the current level
        for (int i = 0; i + 1 < levelLength; i += 2) {
          if (level[i] == level[i + 1] && level[i] != -1) {
            // Score points for a correct setting at this level
            total += power;
            nextLevel[i / 2] = level[i];
          } else {
            nextLevel[i / 2] = -1;
          }
          // Keep track of the maximum possible score
          maximum += power;
        }
        level = nextLevel;
        levelLength = nextLength;
        nextLength = levelLength / 2;
        power *= 2;
      }

      // Convert to percentage of total
      return (double)total / maximum;
    }
  }
}