net.sourceforge.cilib.problem
Interface Problem

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

OptimisationProblem

All Known Implementing Classes:

BinaryMSAProblem, ClusteringProblem, CompetitiveCoevolutionGameLearningOptimizationProblem, CompetitiveCoevolutionProblemAdapter, CooperativeOptimisationProblemAdapter, CriterionBasedMOProblemAdapter, DeratingFunctionMaximisationProblem, DiscreteOptimisationProblem, FunctionDimensionMappingProblem, FunctionLearningProblem, FunctionMaximisationProblem, FunctionMinimisationProblem, FunctionOptimisationProblem, GameLearningOptimizationProblem, GradientFunctionMinimisationProblem, KnightCoverageProblem, LinearMappingProblem, MappingProblem, MOOptimisationProblem, MSAProblem, NeuralNetworkProblem, OptimisationProblemAdapter, PerformanceEvaluationOptimizationProblem, RNAOptimisationProblem

public interface Problem
extends Serializable, Cloneable

This is a common abstraction for all problem classes. All problems should extend this interface. All problems are effectively dynamic problems where non-dynamic problems are essentially problems that are "frozen" at an arbitrary time step.

Author:

Edwin Peer

Method Summary

void	changeEnvironment() Change the environment.
Problem	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.

Method Detail

getClone

Problem 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

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

changeEnvironment

void changeEnvironment()

Change the environment. TODO: this might need to be refactored.