net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.positionupdatestrategies
Interface PersonalBestUpdateStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BoundedPersonalBestUpdateStrategy, StandardPersonalBestUpdateStrategy

public interface PersonalBestUpdateStrategy
extends Cloneable

Update the personal best of the particle. Updates are done in a variety of manners, refer to implmentations for details.

Author:

gpampara

Method Summary

PersonalBestUpdateStrategy	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
void	updatePersonalBest(Particle particle) Update the personal best of the provided Particle.

Method Detail

getClone

PersonalBestUpdateStrategy 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()

updatePersonalBest

void updatePersonalBest(Particle particle)

Update the personal best of the provided Particle.

Parameters:

particle - The particle to update.