NAME

Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::Base - Base class for fitness functions

SYNOPSIS

Shouldn't be used directly, it's an abstract class whose siblings are used to implement fitness functions.

DESCRIPTION

This module includes functionality that should be common to all fitness. Or at least it would be nice to have it in common. It counts the number of evaluations and includes a common API for caching evaluations.

METHODS

new()

Initializes common variables, like the number of evaluations. Cache is not initialized.

initialize()

Called from new, initializes the evaluations counter.

apply( $individual )

Applies the instantiated problem to a chromosome. Actually it is a wrapper around "_apply"

_apply( $individual )

This is the one that really does the stuff. Should be overloaded by derived clases

evaluations()

Returns the number of evaluations made with this object. Useful for collecting stats

reset_evaluations()

Sets to 0 the number of evaluations; useful for repeated use of the fitness object

cache()

Returns a reference to the internal evaluations cache. Not very encapsulated, but...

Known subclasses

Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::MMDP
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::P_Peaks
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::wP_Peaks
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::Knapsack
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::ECC
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::Royal_Road
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::String
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::Trap
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Fitness::Noisy

Copyright

  This file is released under the GPL. See the LICENSE file included in this distribution,
  or go to http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt