net.openai.ai.ga.environment
Interface Environment

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEnvironment

public interface Environment

The Environment is the encapsulation of the problem that the population will try to solve. It is provided as an interface so as to allow maximum flexibility for the type of implementation an Environment can be. The Environment is passed along to every Cell in the Population. The Population and the World groups are completely ignorant of what is in the Environment (except for the methods included in this interface). Therefore, the Cells (the possible solutions) are fitted to the Environment (the problem) and must know how to communicate with it.

Since:

JDK1.3

Version:

%I%, %G%

Author:

Jared Grubb

Method Summary

void	reactToPopulation(Population pop) Tells the Environment to react to the given Population.

Method Detail

reactToPopulation

public void reactToPopulation(Population pop)

Tells the Environment to react to the given Population. This allows for evolution of the problem model according to what its population is. This method is called by a World during each Iteration and may also be used as an age counter. For many programs, this function may be stubbed {} in cases when the problem does not need to evolve.

Parameters:

pop - the Population that works on it