com.rapidminer.operator.features.selection
Class ForwardSelection

java.lang.Object
  com.rapidminer.operator.features.IndividualOperator
      com.rapidminer.operator.features.selection.ForwardSelection

All Implemented Interfaces:

PopulationOperator

public class ForwardSelection
extends IndividualOperator

This PopulationOperator realises forward selection, i.e. creates a list of clones of each individual and switches on one attribute in each of the clones.

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Constructor Summary

ForwardSelection()

Method Summary

java.util.List<Individual>

operate(Individual individual) Subclasses must implement this method providing a list of new individuals.

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.operator.features.IndividualOperator

operate, performOperation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ForwardSelection

public ForwardSelection()

Method Detail

operate

public java.util.List<Individual> operate(Individual individual)

Description copied from class: IndividualOperator

Subclasses must implement this method providing a list of new individuals. individual will be removed from the population so it might be useful to return a list of size 1 containing only the modified individual. If the original individual should also be part of the new population it must also be added to the result list.

Specified by:

operate in class IndividualOperator