net.sourceforge.cilib.algorithm.initialisation
Class PopulationInitialisationStrategy

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.algorithm.initialisation.PopulationInitialisationStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClonedPopulationInitialisationStrategy, SpecializedPopluationInitialisationStrategy

public abstract class PopulationInitialisationStrategy
extends Object
implements Cloneable

Interface describing the manner in which populations are initialised.

Author:

Gary Pampara

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected int

entityNumber

Constructor Summary

PopulationInitialisationStrategy()

Method Summary

abstract PopulationInitialisationStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
int	getEntityNumber() Get the number of entities specified to be created by the InitialisationStrategy.
abstract Entity	getEntityType() Get the current entity type.
abstract void	initialise(Topology<? extends Entity> topology, OptimisationProblem problem) Initialise the Entity collection based on the given Topology and Problem.
void	setEntityNumber(int entityNumber) Set the number of entities that are required.
abstract void	setEntityType(Entity entity) Set the entity type to use.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

entityNumber

protected int entityNumber

Constructor Detail

PopulationInitialisationStrategy

public PopulationInitialisationStrategy()

Method Detail

getClone

public abstract PopulationInitialisationStrategy getClone()

Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it. In general the created copy will be a deep copy of the provided instance. As a result this operation an be quite expensive if used incorrectly.

Specified by:

getClone in interface Cloneable

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

setEntityNumber

public void setEntityNumber(int entityNumber)

Set the number of entities that are required.

Parameters:

entityNumber - The number of entities to set

setEntityType

public abstract void setEntityType(Entity entity)

Set the entity type to use.

Parameters:

entity - The entity type to use.

getEntityType

public abstract Entity getEntityType()

Get the current entity type.

Returns:

The entity being used.

initialise

public abstract void initialise(Topology<? extends Entity> topology,
                                OptimisationProblem problem)

Initialise the Entity collection based on the given Topology and Problem.

Parameters:

topology - The topology to initialise with Entity objects

problem - The Problem to based the initialisation on

getEntityNumber

public int getEntityNumber()

Get the number of entities specified to be created by the InitialisationStrategy.

Returns:

The number of entities to construct.