Class WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Splittable<MutationOperator<Permutation>>
,IterableMutationOperator<Permutation>
,MutationOperator<Permutation>
,UndoableMutationOperator<Permutation>
BlockMoveMutation
mutation operator
on permutations. A window-limited mutation operator on permutations is a mutation operator such
that there is a window constraint, w, on the random indexes used by the mutation. For a mutation
operator like BlockMoveMutation
that uses three random indexes (i, j, k), two to define
the block and the third for the reinsertion point, these indexes are constrained such that |i-j|
≤ w, |i-k| ≤ w, |j-k| ≤ w. All index triples that satisfy the window constraint are
equally likely.
The runtime (worst case and average case) of both the mutate
and
undo
methods is O(min(n,w)), where n is the length of the permutation.
For further discussion of window limited permutation mutation operators see:
V. A. Cicirello, "On the Effects of Window-Limits on the Distance Profiles of Permutation Neighborhood
Operators," in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Information and
Communications Technologies, pages 28–35, December 2014.
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorsConstructorDescriptionConstructs a WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation mutation operator with a default window limit of Integer.MAX_VALUE.WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation
(int windowLimit) Constructs a WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation mutation operator. -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionCreates and returns aMutationIterator
that can be used to systematically iterate over all of the direct neighbors (i.e., a single mutation step away) of a candidate solution, as one might do in a hill climber.split()
Generates a functionally identical copy of this object, for use in multithreaded implementations of search algorithms.Methods inherited from class org.cicirello.search.operators.permutations.BlockMoveMutation
mutate, undo
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Constructor Details
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WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation
public WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation()Constructs a WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation mutation operator with a default window limit of Integer.MAX_VALUE. -
WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation
public WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation(int windowLimit) Constructs a WindowLimitedBlockMoveMutation mutation operator.- Parameters:
windowLimit
- The window limit, which must be positive.- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if windowLimit ≤ 0
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Method Details
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split
Description copied from interface:Splittable
Generates a functionally identical copy of this object, for use in multithreaded implementations of search algorithms. The state of the object that is returned may or may not be identical to that of the original. Thus, this is a distinct concept from the functionality of theCopyable
interface. Classes that implement this interface must ensure that the object returned performs the same functionality, and that it does not share any state data that would be either unsafe or inefficient for concurrent access by multiple threads. The split method is allowed to simply return the this reference, provided that it is both safe and efficient for multiple threads to share a single copy of the Splittable object. The intention is to provide a multithreaded search with the capability to provide spawned threads with their own distinct search operators. Such multithreaded algorithms can call the split method for each thread it spawns to generate a functionally identical copy of the operator, but with independent state.- Specified by:
split
in interfaceIterableMutationOperator<Permutation>
- Specified by:
split
in interfaceSplittable<MutationOperator<Permutation>>
- Specified by:
split
in interfaceUndoableMutationOperator<Permutation>
- Overrides:
split
in classBlockMoveMutation
- Returns:
- A functionally identical copy of the object, or a reference to this if it is both safe and efficient for multiple threads to share a single instance of this Splittable object.
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iterator
Description copied from class:BlockMoveMutation
Creates and returns aMutationIterator
that can be used to systematically iterate over all of the direct neighbors (i.e., a single mutation step away) of a candidate solution, as one might do in a hill climber.The worst case runtime of the
MutationIterator.hasNext()
and theMutationIterator.setSavepoint()
methods of theMutationIterator
created by this method is O(1). The amortized runtime of theMutationIterator.nextMutant()
method is O(1). And the worst case runtime of theMutationIterator.rollback()
method is O(n), where n is the length of the Permutation.- Specified by:
iterator
in interfaceIterableMutationOperator<Permutation>
- Overrides:
iterator
in classBlockMoveMutation
- Parameters:
p
- The candidate solution subject to the mutation. Calling methods of theMutationIterator
that is returned changes the state of that candidate solution. See the documentation of those methods for details of how such changes may occur.- Returns:
- A MutationIterator for iterating over the direct neighbors of a candidate solution.
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