net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single
Class Fitness

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single.Fitness

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Measurement, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

RNAFitness

public class Fitness
extends Object
implements Measurement

Author:

Edwin Peer

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Fitness()
Creates a new instance of Fitness.

Fitness(Fitness copy)
Copy constructor.

Method Summary

Fitness	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
String	getDomain() Get the domain string representing what this measurement's results will conform to.
Type	getValue(Algorithm algorithm) Get the value of the measurement.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Fitness

public Fitness()

Creates a new instance of Fitness.

Fitness

public Fitness(Fitness copy)

Copy constructor. Create a copy of the provided instance.

Parameters:

copy - The instance to copy.

Method Detail

getClone

public Fitness 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 Measurement

Specified by:

getClone in interface Cloneable

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

getDomain

public String getDomain()

Get the domain string representing what this measurement's results will conform to.

Specified by:

getDomain in interface Measurement

Returns:

The Domain String representing the represenation of the measurement

getValue

public Type getValue(Algorithm algorithm)

Get the value of the measurement. The represenation of the measurement will be based on the domain string defined Measurement.getDomain()

Specified by:

getValue in interface Measurement

Parameters:

algorithm - The algorithm to obtain the measurement from.

Returns:

The Type representing the value of the measurement.