AbsoluteRanking

Class AbsoluteRanking

java.lang.Object

core.AbstractComponent

core.AbstractRanking

AbsoluteRanking.AbsoluteRanking

public class AbsoluteRanking
extends AbstractRanking

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbsoluteRanking()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	sortCandidates(java.util.ArrayList<AbstractRepresentation> pop, ProblemXMLData problem, java.util.Random random) Sorts the given array of representations in a descending order of fitness and returns the number of evaluation that was required for the ranking to finish.

Methods inherited from class core.AbstractComponent

getProperties, getPropertyValue, getTypeOfProperty, getXMLData, setProperties, setXMLData

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbsoluteRanking

public AbsoluteRanking()

Method Detail

sortCandidates

public int sortCandidates(java.util.ArrayList<AbstractRepresentation> pop,
                 ProblemXMLData problem,
                 java.util.Random random)

Description copied from class: AbstractRanking

Sorts the given array of representations in a descending order of fitness and returns the number of evaluation that was required for the ranking to finish. Evaluation of the candidates is done by the provided problem component.

Specified by:

sortCandidates in class AbstractRanking

Parameters:

pop - The population to be sorted.

problem - The problem descriptor to be used for evaluation.

random - The random generator object used for sorting.

Returns:

the number of evaluations that were needed to rank the given set of representations