net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.selection
Class SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.selection.OpponentSelectionStrategy
      net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.selection.SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

public class SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy
extends OpponentSelectionStrategy

Select N random opponents from the pool of competitors

Author:

Julien Duhain, leo

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected int	numberOfOpponents
protected RandomNumber	random

Fields inherited from class net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.selection.OpponentSelectionStrategy

ownPopulationID, selectFromOwnPopulation

Constructor Summary

SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy()

SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy(SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy copy)

Method Summary

OpponentSelectionStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
int	getNumberOfOpponents()
CoevolutionCompetitorList	selectCompetitors(CoevolutionCompetitorList pool) Select opponents from the pool
void	setNumberOfOpponents(int numberOfOpponents)

Methods inherited from class net.sourceforge.cilib.coevolution.selection.OpponentSelectionStrategy

addPoolSelectionStrategy, clearPoolSelectionStrategies, setCompetitors, setOwnPopulationID, setSelectFromOwnPopulation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

numberOfOpponents

protected int numberOfOpponents

random

protected RandomNumber random

Constructor Detail

SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy

public SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy()

SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy

public SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy(SelectNOpponentSelectionStrategy copy)

Method Detail

getClone

public OpponentSelectionStrategy 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

Specified by:

getClone in class OpponentSelectionStrategy

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

selectCompetitors

public CoevolutionCompetitorList selectCompetitors(CoevolutionCompetitorList pool)

Select opponents from the pool

Specified by:

selectCompetitors in class OpponentSelectionStrategy

Parameters:

pool - the pool of potential opponents

Returns:

the selected opponents

getNumberOfOpponents

public int getNumberOfOpponents()

setNumberOfOpponents

public void setNumberOfOpponents(int numberOfOpponents)