org.apache.commons.math.genetics

## Class RandomKeyMutation

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.commons.math.genetics.RandomKeyMutation

All Implemented Interfaces:
  MutationPolicy

    public class RandomKeyMutation
    extends java.lang.Object
    implements MutationPolicy

Mutation operator for `RandomKey`s. Changes a randomly chosen element of the array representation to a random value uniformly distributed in [0,1].

Since:
  2.0
Version:
  $Revision: 983921 $ $Date: 2010-08-10 12:46:06 +0200 (mar. 10 août 2010) $

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`RandomKeyMutation()`

### Method Summary

Methods
`Chromosome` `mutate(Chromosome original)` Mutate the given chromosome.

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

### Constructor Detail

#### RandomKeyMutation

    public RandomKeyMutation()

### Method Detail

#### mutate

    public Chromosome mutate(Chromosome original)

Mutate the given chromosome.

Specified by:
  `mutate` in interface `MutationPolicy`
Parameters:
  `original` - the original chromosome.
Returns:
  the mutated chromomsome.
Throws:
  `java.lang.IllegalArgumentException` - if `original` is not a `RandomKey` instance