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1#region License Information
2/* HeuristicLab
3 * Copyright (C) 2002-2015 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
9 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
10 * (at your option) any later version.
11 *
12 * HeuristicLab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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19 */
20#endregion
21
22using System.Collections.Generic;
23using HeuristicLab.Core;
24
25namespace HeuristicLab.Optimization {
26  /// <summary>
27  /// An interface which represents an operator for similarity calculation.
28  /// </summary>
29  public interface ISolutionSimilarityCalculator : IItem, IEqualityComparer<IScope> {
30    /// <summary>
31    /// Calculates the similarity of two solutions.
32    /// </summary>
33    /// <param name="leftSolution">The first scope that contains a solution.</param>
34    /// <param name="rightSolution">The second scope that contains a solution.</param>
35    /// <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>
36    double CalculateSolutionSimilarity(IScope leftSolution, IScope rightSolution);
37
38    /// <summary>
39    /// Calculates the similarity of solutions in one scope.
40    /// </summary>
41    /// <param name="solutionCrowd">The scope that contains solutions.</param>
42    /// <returns>A similarity matrix. Zero means the two solutions differ in every aspect, one indicates that the two solutions are the same.</returns>
43    double[][] CalculateSolutionCrowdSimilarity(IScope solutionCrowd);
44
45    /// <summary>
46    /// Calculates the similarity of solutions in two scopes.
47    /// </summary>
48    /// <param name="leftSolutionCrowd">The first scope that contains solutions.</param>
49    /// <param name="rightSolutionCrowd">The second scope that contains solutions.</param>
50    /// <returns>A similarity matrix. Zero means the two solutions differ in every aspect, one indicates that the two solutions are the same.</returns>
51    double[][] CalculateSolutionCrowdSimilarity(IScope leftSolutionCrowd, IScope rightSolutionCrowd);
52  }
53}
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