src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math/genetics/RandomKeyMutation.java

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package org.apache.commons.math.genetics;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.math.MathRuntimeException;
import org.apache.commons.math.exception.util.LocalizedFormats;

/**
 * Mutation operator for {@link RandomKey}s. Changes a randomly chosen element
 * of the array representation to a random value uniformly distributed in [0,1].
 *
 * @since 2.0
 * @version $Revision: 983921 $ $Date: 2010-08-10 12:46:06 +0200 (mar. 10 août 2010) $
 */
public class RandomKeyMutation implements MutationPolicy {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if <code>original</code> is not a
     * {@link RandomKey} instance
     */
    public Chromosome mutate(Chromosome original) {
        if (!(original instanceof RandomKey<?>)) {
            throw MathRuntimeException.createIllegalArgumentException(
                    LocalizedFormats.RANDOMKEY_MUTATION_WRONG_CLASS,
                    original.getClass().getSimpleName());
        }

        RandomKey<?> originalRk = (RandomKey<?>) original;
        List<Double> repr = originalRk.getRepresentation();
        int rInd = GeneticAlgorithm.getRandomGenerator().nextInt(repr.size());

        List<Double> newRepr = new ArrayList<Double> (repr);
        newRepr.set(rInd, GeneticAlgorithm.getRandomGenerator().nextDouble());

        return originalRk.newFixedLengthChromosome(newRepr);
    }

}