Package org.cicirello.permutations.distance

Class CyclicRTypeDistance

java.lang.Object

org.cicirello.permutations.distance.CyclicRTypeDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer, NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurerDouble, PermutationDistanceMeasurer, PermutationDistanceMeasurerDouble

public final class CyclicRTypeDistance
extends Object
implements NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer

Cyclic RType Distance:

Cyclic RType distance treats the permutations as if they represent sets of directed edges, and counts the number of edges that differ. It treats the last to the first element as an edge.

Consider the example permutation: [1, 5, 2, 4, 0, 3]. Cyclic RType distance treats this as equivalent to the set of directed edges: {(1,5), (5,2), (2,4), (4,0), (0,3), (3,1)}.

E.g., distance between [1, 5, 2, 4, 0, 3] and [ 5, 1, 4, 0, 3, 2] is 4. Why? Well, the first permutation has the directed edges: {(1,5), (5,2), (2,4), (4,0), (0,3), (3,1)}. The second has 2 of these (4,0), and (0,3), but does not include 4 of the edges: (1,5), (5,2), (2,4), (3,1)

Runtime: O(n), where n is the permutation length.

Cyclic RType distance was introduced in:
V.A. Cicirello, "The Permutation in a Haystack Problem and the Calculus of Search Landscapes," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 20(3):434-446, June 2016.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CyclicRTypeDistance()	Constructs the distance measurer as specified in the class documentation.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	distance(Permutation p1, Permutation p2)	Measures the distance between two permutations.
int	max(int length)	Computes the maximum possible distance between permutations of a specified length.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.cicirello.permutations.distance.NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer

maxf, normalizedDistance

Methods inherited from interface org.cicirello.permutations.distance.PermutationDistanceMeasurer

distancef

Constructor Detail

CyclicRTypeDistance

public CyclicRTypeDistance()

Constructs the distance measurer as specified in the class documentation.

Method Detail

distance

public int distance(Permutation p1,
                    Permutation p2)

Measures the distance between two permutations.

Specified by:

distance in interface PermutationDistanceMeasurer

Parameters:

p1 - first permutation

p2 - second permutation

Returns:

distance between p1 and p2

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if p1.length() is not equal to p2.length().

max

public int max(int length)

Description copied from interface: NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer

Computes the maximum possible distance between permutations of a specified length.

Specified by:

max in interface NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer

Parameters:

length - Permutation length.

Returns:

the maximum distance between a pair of permutations of the specified length.