source: trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Evolutionary/3.2/UnidirectionalRingMigrator.cs @ 3446

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Data;

namespace HeuristicLab.Evolutionary {
  /// <summary>
  /// Operator class that migrates one sub scope of each child to its left neighbour sub scope, like a ring.
  /// </summary>
  public class UnidirectionalRingMigrator : OperatorBase {
    /// <inheritdoc select="summary"/>
    public override string Description {
      get { return @"TODO\r\nOperator description still missing ..."; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Migrates every first sub scope of each child to its left neighbour (like a ring).
    /// <pre>                                                               
    ///                    scope                    scope             
    ///                /     |     \            /     |     \         
    ///               A      B      C    =>    A      B      C           
    ///              /|\    /|\    /|\        /|\    /|\    /|\       
    ///             G H I  J K L  M N O      H I J  K L M  N O G     
    /// </pre>
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="scope">The scope whose sub scopes of the children should migrate.</param>
    /// <returns><c>null</c>.</returns>
    public override IOperation Apply(IScope scope) {
      IList<IScope> emigrantsList = new List<IScope>();

      for (int i = 0; i < scope.SubScopes.Count; i++) {
        IScope emigrants = scope.SubScopes[i].SubScopes[1];
        scope.SubScopes[i].RemoveSubScope(emigrants);
        emigrantsList.Add(emigrants);
      }

      // shift first emigrants to end of list
      emigrantsList.Add(emigrantsList[0]);
      emigrantsList.RemoveAt(0);

      for (int i = 0; i < scope.SubScopes.Count; i++)
        scope.SubScopes[i].AddSubScope(emigrantsList[i]);

      return null;
    }
  }
}