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/*!
 *  \file   beagle/GA/MutationGaussianFltVecOp.hpp
 *  \brief  Definition of the class GA::MutationGaussianFltVecOp.
 *  \author Christian Gagne
 *  \author Marc Parizeau
 *  $Revision: 1.4 $
 *  $Date: 2004/01/15 21:08:56 $
 */

#ifndef Beagle_GA_MutationGaussianFltVecOp_hpp
#define Beagle_GA_MutationGaussianFltVecOp_hpp

#include <string>

#include "beagle/config.hpp"
#include "beagle/macros.hpp"
#include "beagle/Object.hpp"
#include "beagle/MutationOp.hpp"


namespace Beagle {
namespace GA {

/*!
 *  \class MutationGaussianFltVecOp beagle/GA/MutationGaussianFltVecOp.hpp
 *    "beagle/GA/MutationGaussianFltVecOp.hpp"
 *  \brief Real-valued GA Gaussian mutation operator class.
 *  \ingroup GAF
 *  \ingroup GAFV
 */
class MutationGaussianFltVecOp : public Beagle::MutationOp {

public:

  //! GA::MutationGaussianFltVecOp allocator type.
  typedef AllocatorT<MutationGaussianFltVecOp,Beagle::MutationOp::Alloc>
          Alloc;
  //! GA::MutationGaussianFltVecOp handle type.
  typedef PointerT<MutationGaussianFltVecOp,Beagle::MutationOp::Handle>
          Handle;
  //! GA::MutationGaussianFltVecOp bag type.
  typedef ContainerT<MutationGaussianFltVecOp,Beagle::MutationOp::Bag>
          Bag;

  explicit MutationGaussianFltVecOp(std::string inMutationPbName="ga.mutgauss.indpb",
                                    std::string inMutateFloatPbName="ga.mutgauss.floatpb",
                                    std::string inMutateGaussMuName="ga.mutgauss.mu",
                                    std::string inMutateGaussSigmaName="ga.mutgauss.sigma",
                                    std::string inName="GA-MutationGaussianFltVecOp");
  virtual ~MutationGaussianFltVecOp() { }

  virtual void initialize(System& ioSystem);
  virtual bool mutate(Beagle::Individual& ioIndividual, Context& ioContext);
  virtual void readWithMap(XMLNode::Handle& inNode, OperatorMap& inOpMap);
  virtual void writeContent(XMLStreamer& ioStreamer) const;

protected:
  Float::Handle mMutateFloatPb;        //!< Single value mutation probability.
  Float::Handle mMutateGaussMu;        //!< Gaussian mutation mean.
  Float::Handle mMutateGaussSigma;     //!< Gaussian mutation standard deviation.
  Float::Handle mFloatsValueMax;       //!< Maximum values of floating-point numbers.
  Float::Handle mFloatsValueMin;       //!< Minimum values of floating-point numbers.
  std::string   mMutateFloatPbName;    //!< Single value mutation probability parameter name.
  std::string   mMutateGaussMuName;    //!< Gaussian mutation mean parameter name.
  std::string   mMutateGaussSigmaName; //!< Gaussian mutation std deviation parameter name.
  
};

}
}

#endif // Beagle_GA_MutationGaussianFltVecOp_hpp
