CrossoverPolicy (Apache Commons Math 4.0-SNAPSHOT)

All Known Implementing Classes:

CycleCrossover, NPointCrossover, OnePointCrossover, OrderedCrossover, UniformCrossover
```
public interface CrossoverPolicy
```
Policy used to create a pair of new chromosomes by performing a crossover operation on a source pair of chromosomes.

Since:

2.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ChromosomePair`	`crossover(Chromosome first, Chromosome second)`	Perform a crossover operation on the given chromosomes.

- Method Detail
  - crossover
```
ChromosomePair crossover(Chromosome first,
                         Chromosome second)
                  throws MathIllegalArgumentException
```
    Perform a crossover operation on the given chromosomes.
    
    Parameters:
    
    first - the first chromosome.
    
    second - the second chromosome.
    
    Returns:
    
    the pair of new chromosomes that resulted from the crossover.
    
    Throws:
    
    MathIllegalArgumentException - if the given chromosomes are not compatible with this CrossoverPolicy