net.sourceforge.cilib.util.calculator
Class EntityBasedFitnessCalculator

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.cilib.util.calculator.EntityBasedFitnessCalculator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, FitnessCalculator<Entity>, Cloneable

public class EntityBasedFitnessCalculator
extends Object
implements FitnessCalculator<Entity>

A fitness calculator tht is specialised to determine the fitness of an Entity instance.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

EntityBasedFitnessCalculator()

Method Summary

EntityBasedFitnessCalculator	getClone() Create a cloned copy of the current object and return it.
Fitness	getFitness(Entity entity, boolean count) Get the fitness, given the position.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EntityBasedFitnessCalculator

public EntityBasedFitnessCalculator()

Method Detail

getClone

public EntityBasedFitnessCalculator 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 FitnessCalculator<Entity>

Specified by:

getClone in interface Cloneable

Returns:

An exact clone of the current object instance.

See Also:

Object.clone()

getFitness

public Fitness getFitness(Entity entity,
                          boolean count)

Get the fitness, given the position.

Specified by:

getFitness in interface FitnessCalculator<Entity>

Parameters:

entity - The Type to base the calculation on.

count - Whether or not the evaluation is to be counted.

Returns:

A Fitness object representing the fitness of the position.