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package com.rapidminer.operator.features;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException;
/**
* This evaluator is used by the feature selection / generation / weighting operators.
*
* @author Ingo Mierswa, Sebastian Land
*/
public interface PopulationEvaluator {
/**
* This method evaluates the individuals of a population and assigns them their performance
* vectors
*
* @param population
* the population to evaluate
* @throws OperatorException
*/
public void evaluate(Population population) throws OperatorException;
}