org.jgap.distr
Interface IPopulationMerger

All Known Implementing Classes:

FittestPopulationMerger

public interface IPopulationMerger

Interface for implementations allowing to merge two or more independent Population's to be merged together into one Population.

Since:

2.0

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CVS_REVISION String containing the CVS revision.

Method Summary

Population

mergePopulations(Population a_population1, Population a_population2, int a_new_population_size) Merges two Population's into one that has the given size.

Field Detail

CVS_REVISION

static final java.lang.String CVS_REVISION

String containing the CVS revision. Read out via reflection!

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

mergePopulations

Population mergePopulations(Population a_population1,
                            Population a_population2,
                            int a_new_population_size)

Merges two Population's into one that has the given size.

Parameters:

a_population1 - Population first Population

a_population2 - Population second Population

a_new_population_size - int size of merged Population

Returns:

Population the resulting Population

Since:

2.0