TournamentSelectStrategy.h

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00025  *                                                                         *
00026  *   This class is a implementation for the ISelectStrategy. It make a     *
00027  *   select by randomized comparison of two individual. The worse          *
00028  *   individual dosn't comes in the next generation.                       *
00029  *                                                                         *
00030  *   $Log: TournamentSelectStrategy.h,v $
00031  *   Revision 1.3  2009/07/21 08:37:59  robot12
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00034  *   Revision 1.2  2009/06/25 13:34:17  robot12
00035  *   finish the select strategy and add some comments.
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00038  *   rename of some files and moving files to other positions
00039  *    - SingletonGenAlgAPI has one error!!! --> is not ready now
00040  *
00041  *   Revision 1.2  2009/05/04 09:06:00  robot12
00042  *   some implements... Part7
00043  *
00044  *   Revision 1.1  2009/04/30 11:51:26  robot12
00045  *   some implements... new classes
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00050 
00051 #ifndef TOURNAMENTSELECTSTRATEGY_H_
00052 #define TOURNAMENTSELECTSTRATEGY_H_
00053 
00054 //includes
00055 #include <selforg/randomgenerator.h>
00056 
00057 //forward declaration
00058 class Generation;
00059 
00060 //ga_tools includes
00061 #include "ISelectStrategy.h"
00062 
00063 /**
00064  * This class makes a select by randomized comparison of two individual of the old generation.
00065  * The worse individual dosn't comes in the next generation. If enough individual "killed",
00066  * comes the living in the next generation.
00067  *
00068  * With this method it is possible that a bad individual comes in the next generation. So you dosn't
00069  * becomes a to elite generation and save some alternatives in the gens.
00070  * This way is in this point better than the EliteSelectStrategy.
00071  */
00072 class TournamentSelectStrategy : public ISelectStrategy {
00073 public:
00074         /**
00075          * constructor
00076          * @param random (RandGen*) a random generator for the randomized select of two individual.
00077          */
00078         TournamentSelectStrategy(RandGen* random);
00079 
00080         /**
00081          * default destructor
00082          */
00083         virtual ~TournamentSelectStrategy();
00084 
00085         /**
00086          * implementation for the interface ISelectStrategy
00087          * @param oldGeneration (Generation*) the old generation
00088          * @param newGeneration (Generation*) the next generation
00089          */
00090         virtual void select(Generation* oldGeneration, Generation* newGeneration);
00091 
00092 protected:
00093         /**
00094          * the random generator
00095          */
00096         RandGen* m_random;
00097 
00098 private:
00099         /**
00100          * disable the default constructor
00101          */
00102         TournamentSelectStrategy();
00103 };
00104 
00105 #endif /* TOURNAMENTSELECTSTRATEGY_H_ */

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