net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution
Class FitnessSharingStrategy

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.FitnessSharingStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

StandardFitnessSharingStrategy

public abstract class FitnessSharingStrategy
extends Object
implements Cloneable

Author:

Julien Duhain

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

FitnessSharingStrategy()

Method Summary

abstract FitnessSharingStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
abstract Fitness	modifyFitness(CoevolutionAlgorithm ca, Entity ent) modifies the fitness of the entity according to a specific fitness sharing strategy.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FitnessSharingStrategy

public FitnessSharingStrategy()

Method Detail

modifyFitness

public abstract Fitness modifyFitness(CoevolutionAlgorithm ca,
                                      Entity ent)

modifies the fitness of the entity according to a specific fitness sharing strategy.

Parameters:

CoevolutionAlgorithm -

ent - Entity whose fitness is to be calculated

Returns:

the fitness of the entity

getClone

public abstract FitnessSharingStrategy getClone()

Description copied from interface: Cloneable

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()