org.jaga.definitions
Interface Fitness

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbsoluteFitness, ClassifierFitness

public interface Fitness

Basis for all classes which implement the fitness of an individual. Every individual has a property of this type (its subtype), which describes how fit that indivudual is compared to others. It must be possible to compare two fitness-objects. However, the fitnesses of all indivuduals in the population are not nessecerily all comparable: for example, it is possible that the fitness is determined in an N-Tournament selection process. According to the nature of that tournament the fitness might not be absolut, i.e. fitness doen not have to be transitive: A < B and B < C does not always mean A <. In particular, this applies to fitnesses of game strategies.

Project: JAGA - Java API for Genetic Algorithms.

Company: University College London and JAGA.Org (http://www.jaga.org).

Copyright: (c) 2004 by G. Paperin.
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Version:

JAGA public release 1.0 Beta

Author:

Greg Paperin (greg@jaga.org)

Method Summary

boolean	isBetter(Fitness fitness) Compares this fitness to the specified fitness.
boolean	isWorse(Fitness fitness) Compares this fitness to the specified fitness.

Method Detail

isBetter

boolean isBetter(Fitness fitness)
                 throws java.lang.ClassCastException

Compares this fitness to the specified fitness.

Parameters:

fitness - - another fitness object.

Returns:

true, if this fitness is "fitter" then the specified, false otherwise.

Throws:

java.lang.ClassCastException - if these types of fitness are not comparable.

isWorse

boolean isWorse(Fitness fitness)
                throws java.lang.ClassCastException

Compares this fitness to the specified fitness.

Parameters:

fitness - - another fitness object.

Returns:

true, if this fitness is "less fit" then the specified, false otherwise.

Throws:

java.lang.ClassCastException - if these types of fitness are not comparable.