public Object clone() {
BitVectorIndividual myobj = (BitVectorIndividual) (super.clone());
// must clone the genome
myobj.genome = (boolean[]) (genome.clone());
return myobj;
}
/** Implements distance as hamming distance. */
public double distanceTo(Individual otherInd) {
if (!(otherInd instanceof BitVectorIndividual))
return super.distanceTo(otherInd); // will return infinity!
BitVectorIndividual other = (BitVectorIndividual) otherInd;
boolean[] otherGenome = other.genome;
double hammingDistance = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < other.genomeLength(); i++) {
if (genome[i] ^ otherGenome[i]) // ^ is xor
hammingDistance++;
}
return hammingDistance;
}