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+/*
+* <moeoHyperVolumeDifferenceMetric.h>
+* Copyright (C) DOLPHIN Project-Team, INRIA Futurs, 2006-2007
+* (C) OPAC Team, LIFL, 2002-2007
+*
+* Jeremie Humeau
+* Arnaud Liefooghe
+*
+* This software is governed by the CeCILL license under French law and
+* abiding by the rules of distribution of free software.  You can  use,
+* modify and/ or redistribute the software under the terms of the CeCILL
+* license as circulated by CEA, CNRS and INRIA at the following URL
+* "http://www.cecill.info".
+*
+* As a counterpart to the access to the source code and  rights to copy,
+* modify and redistribute granted by the license, users are provided only
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+* economic rights,  and the successive licensors  have only  limited liability.
+*
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+* therefore means  that it is reserved for developers  and  experienced
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+*/
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#ifndef MOEOHYPERVOLUMEDIFFERENCEMETRIC_H_
+#define MOEOHYPERVOLUMEDIFFERENCEMETRIC_H_
+
+#include <metric/moeoMetric.h>
+
+/**
+ * The contribution metric evaluates the proportion of non-dominated solutions given by a Pareto set relatively to another Pareto set
+ * (Meunier, Talbi, Reininger: 'A multiobjective genetic algorithm for radio network optimization', in Proc. of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, pp. 317-324)
+ */
+template < class ObjectiveVector >
+class moeoHyperVolumeDifferenceMetric : public moeoVectorVsVectorBinaryMetric < ObjectiveVector, double >
+  {
+
+  };
+
+#endif /*MOEOHYPERVOLUMEMETRIC_H_*/