net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.continuous
Class Step

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

public class Step
extends ContinuousFunction

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See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Step()
Create an instance of the Step function.

Method Summary

double	evaluate(Vector x) Evaluate the function with the given Vector as input.
Step	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.

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

evaluate, getMaximum, getMinimum

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

Step

public Step()

Create an instance of the Step function.

Method Detail

getClone

public Step 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()

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.