net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single
Class ParticleBoundViolations

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Measurement, Cloneable

public class ParticleBoundViolations
extends Object
implements Measurement

Calculates the average number of particles in the current swarm that violates boundary constraints. This measure can be used as an indicator of whether the algorithm spend too much time exploring in infeasible space (with respect to the boundary constraints).

Author:

Andries Engelbrecht

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

ParticleBoundViolations()
Creates a new instance of ParticleBoundViolations.

ParticleBoundViolations(ParticleBoundViolations copy)
Copy constructor.

Method Summary

Measurement	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

ParticleBoundViolations

public ParticleBoundViolations()

Creates a new instance of ParticleBoundViolations.

ParticleBoundViolations

public ParticleBoundViolations(ParticleBoundViolations copy)

Copy constructor. Creates a copy of the provided instance.

Parameters:

copy - The instance to copy.

Method Detail

getClone

public Measurement 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.