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source: branches/ScatterSearch (trunk integration)/HeuristicLab.Optimization/3.3/Interfaces/ISolutionSimilarityCalculator.cs @ 8319

Last change on this file since 8319 was 8319, checked in by jkarder, 12 years ago

#1331:

  • applied some of the changes suggested by ascheibe in comment:32:ticket:1331
  • restructured path relinking and improvement operators and similarity calculators
  • fixed bug in TSPMultipleGuidesPathRelinker
File size: 2.5 KB
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1#region License Information
2/* HeuristicLab
3 * Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL)
4 *
5 * This file is part of HeuristicLab.
6 *
7 * HeuristicLab is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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11 *
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16 *
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19 */
20#endregion
21
22using HeuristicLab.Core;
23
24namespace HeuristicLab.Optimization {
25  /// <summary>
26  /// An interface which represents an operator for similarity calculation.
27  /// </summary>
28  public interface ISolutionSimilarityCalculator : IItem {
29    /// <summary>
30    /// Calculates the similarity of two solutions.
31    /// </summary>
32    /// <param name="leftSolution">The first scope that contains a solution.</param>
33    /// <param name="rightSolution">The second scope that contains a solution.</param>
34    /// <returns>A double between zero and one. Zero means the two solutions differ in every aspect, one indicates that the two solutions are the same.</returns>
35    double CalculateSolutionSimilarity(IScope leftSolution, IScope rightSolution);
36
37    /// <summary>
38    /// Calculates the similarity of solutions in one scope.
39    /// </summary>
40    /// <param name="solutionCrowd">The scope that contains solutions.</param>
41    /// <returns>A similarity matrix. Zero means the two solutions differ in every aspect, one indicates that the two solutions are the same.</returns>
42    double[][] CalculateSolutionCrowdSimilarity(IScope solutionCrowd);
43
44    /// <summary>
45    /// Calculates the similarity of solutions in two scopes.
46    /// </summary>
47    /// <param name="leftSolutionCrowd">The first scope that contains solutions.</param>
48    /// <param name="rightSolutionCrowd">The second scope that contains solutions.</param>
49    /// <returns>A similarity matrix. Zero means the two solutions differ in every aspect, one indicates that the two solutions are the same.</returns>
50    double[][] CalculateSolutionCrowdSimilarity(IScope leftSolutionCrowd, IScope rightSolutionCrowd);
51  }
52}
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