source: trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Modeling/3.2/PredictorBase.cs @ 2504

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#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.DataAnalysis;
using System.Xml;

namespace HeuristicLab.Modeling {
  public abstract class PredictorBase : ItemBase, IPredictor {
    public double UpperPredictionLimit { get; set; }
    public double LowerPredictionLimit { get; set; }
    public abstract double[] Predict(Dataset dataset, int start, int end);
    public abstract IEnumerable<string> GetInputVariables();

    public PredictorBase() : this(double.MinValue, double.MaxValue) { } // for persistence
    public PredictorBase(double lowerPredictionLimit, double upperPredictionLimit)
      : base() {
      this.UpperPredictionLimit = upperPredictionLimit;
      this.LowerPredictionLimit = lowerPredictionLimit;
    }

    public override object Clone(IDictionary<Guid, object> clonedObjects) {
      PredictorBase clone = (PredictorBase)base.Clone(clonedObjects);
      clone.UpperPredictionLimit = UpperPredictionLimit;
      clone.LowerPredictionLimit = LowerPredictionLimit;
      return clone;
    }

    public override System.Xml.XmlNode GetXmlNode(string name, System.Xml.XmlDocument document, IDictionary<Guid, IStorable> persistedObjects) {
      XmlNode node = base.GetXmlNode(name, document, persistedObjects);
      XmlAttribute minValue = document.CreateAttribute("LowerPredictionLimit");
      minValue.Value = XmlConvert.ToString(LowerPredictionLimit);
      XmlAttribute maxValue = document.CreateAttribute("UpperPredictionLimit");
      maxValue.Value = XmlConvert.ToString(UpperPredictionLimit);
      node.Attributes.Append(minValue); node.Attributes.Append(maxValue);
      return node;
    }

    public override void Populate(System.Xml.XmlNode node, IDictionary<Guid, IStorable> restoredObjects) {
      base.Populate(node, restoredObjects);
      LowerPredictionLimit = XmlConvert.ToDouble(node.Attributes["LowerPredictionLimit"].Value);
      UpperPredictionLimit = XmlConvert.ToDouble(node.Attributes["UpperPredictionLimit"].Value);
    }
  } 
}