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#ifndef MOEOMANHATTANDISTANCE_H_
#define MOEOMANHATTANDISTANCE_H_

#include <math.h>
#include <distance/moeoObjSpaceDistance.h>
#include <utils/moeoObjectiveVectorNormalizer.h>

/**
 * A class allowing to compute the Manhattan distance between two solutions in the objective space normalized objective values (i.e. between 0 and 1).
 * A distance value then lies between 0 and nObjectives.
 */
template < class MOEOT >
class moeoManhattanDistance : public moeoObjSpaceDistance < MOEOT >
  {
  public:

    /** the objective vector type of the solutions */
    typedef typename MOEOT::ObjectiveVector ObjectiveVector;
    /** the fitness type of the solutions */
    typedef typename MOEOT::Fitness Fitness;

    /**
      ctr with a normalizer
      @param _normalizer the normalizer used for every ObjectiveVector
      */
    moeoManhattanDistance (moeoObjectiveVectorNormalizer<MOEOT> &_normalizer):normalizer(_normalizer)
	  {}
    /**
      default ctr
      */
    moeoManhattanDistance ():normalizer(defaultNormalizer)
	  {}

    /**
     * Returns the Manhattan distance between _obj1 and _obj2 in the objective space
     * @param _obj1 the first objective vector
     * @param _obj2 the second objective vector
     */
    const double operator()(const ObjectiveVector & _obj1, const ObjectiveVector & _obj2)
    {
      double result = 0.0;
      double tmp1, tmp2;
      for (unsigned int i=0; i<ObjectiveVector::nObjectives(); i++)
        {
          tmp1 = normalizer(_obj1)[i];
          tmp2 = normalizer(_obj2)[i];
          result += fabs(tmp1-tmp2);
        }
      return result;
    }


  private:

    moeoObjectiveVectorNormalizer<MOEOT> defaultNormalizer;
    moeoObjectiveVectorNormalizer<MOEOT> &normalizer;

  };

#endif /*MOEOMANHATTANDISTANCE_H_*/
