net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.continuous
Class Quadric

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.Function
      net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.ContinuousFunction
          net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.continuous.Quadric

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

public class Quadric
extends ContinuousFunction

Author:

Edwin Peer

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Quadric()

Method Summary

double	evaluate(Vector x) Evaluate the function with the given Vector as input.
Quadric	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
Object	getMaximum() Accessor for the function maximum.
Object	getMinimum() Get the minimum of the function.

Methods inherited from class net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.ContinuousFunction

evaluate

Methods inherited from class net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.Function

getBehavioralDomainRegistry, getDimension, getDomain, getDomainRegistry, setBehavioralDomain, setBehaviouralDomainRegistry, setDomain

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Quadric

public Quadric()

Method Detail

getClone

public Quadric 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 ContinuousFunction

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

getMinimum

public Object getMinimum()

Get the minimum of the function. It is defined to be a value of 0.0.

Overrides:

getMinimum in class ContinuousFunction

Returns:

The function minimum value.

getMaximum

public Object getMaximum()

Description copied from class: ContinuousFunction

Accessor for the function maximum. This is the maximum value of the function in the given domain.

Overrides:

getMaximum in class ContinuousFunction

Returns:

The maximum of the function.

evaluate

public double evaluate(Vector x)

Evaluate the function with the given Vector as input.

Specified by:

evaluate in class ContinuousFunction

Parameters:

x - The input Vector.

Returns:

The value of the evaluation.