ec.evolve

Class RandomRestarts

java.lang.Object

ec.Statistics

ec.evolve.RandomRestarts

All Implemented Interfaces:

Setup, Singleton, java.io.Serializable

public class RandomRestarts
extends Statistics

A special Statistics class which performs random restarts on the population, effectively reininitializing the population and starting over again. RandomRestarts has two ways of determining when to perform a restart. If the restart type is "fixed", then the restart will occur precisely when the generation is a multiple of restart-upper-bound, minus one. (That's hardly random, of course). If the restart type is "random", then at the beginning of the run, and after every restart, a new restart is chosen randomly from one to restart-upper-bound.

This class is compatible with populations which load from files -- it temporarily disables the load-from-file feature when telling the population to populate itself again, forcing the population to do so by creating random individuals.

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
int	countdown
static java.lang.String	P_RESTART_TYPE
static java.lang.String	P_RESTART_UPPERBOUND
static java.lang.String	P_START
int	start
int	upperbound

Fields inherited from class ec.Statistics

children, P_CHILD, P_MUZZLE, P_NUMCHILDREN, P_SILENT, P_SILENT_FILE, P_SILENT_PRINT, silentFile, silentPrint

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RandomRestarts()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	preEvaluationStatistics(EvolutionState state) Checks the clock; if it's time to restart, we repopulate the population.
void	setup(EvolutionState state, Parameter base) Gets the clock ticking.

Methods inherited from class ec.Statistics

enteringInitialPopulationStatistics, enteringSteadyStateStatistics, finalStatistics, generationBoundaryStatistics, individualsBredStatistics, individualsEvaluatedStatistics, postBreedingStatistics, postCheckpointStatistics, postEvaluationStatistics, postInitializationStatistics, postPostBreedingExchangeStatistics, postPreBreedingExchangeStatistics, preBreedingStatistics, preCheckpointStatistics, preInitializationStatistics, prePostBreedingExchangeStatistics, prePreBreedingExchangeStatistics

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

P_RESTART_TYPE

public static final java.lang.String P_RESTART_TYPE

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Constant Field Values

P_RESTART_UPPERBOUND

public static final java.lang.String P_RESTART_UPPERBOUND

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Constant Field Values

P_START

public static final java.lang.String P_START

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Constant Field Values

countdown

public int countdown

upperbound

public int upperbound

start

public int start

Constructor Detail

RandomRestarts

public RandomRestarts()

Method Detail

setup

public void setup(EvolutionState state,
                  Parameter base)

Gets the clock ticking.

Specified by:

setup in interface Setup

Overrides:

setup in class Statistics

preEvaluationStatistics

public void preEvaluationStatistics(EvolutionState state)

Checks the clock; if it's time to restart, we repopulate the population. Afterwards, we reset the clock. If it's not time yet, the clock goes tick.

Overrides:

preEvaluationStatistics in class Statistics