com.rubecula.darwin.core
Interface Fitness

All Known Implementing Classes:

Fitness_Abstract, Fitness_Default, Fitness_PepperedMoth

public interface Fitness

Defines fitness functions for Darwinian (Evolutionary Computation) Systems.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

double	getFitness(Trait trait, EcoFactor factor) Method to evaluate the fitness of a trait of type Trait with respect to an environmental factor of type EcoFactor.
double	getWeight(Trait trait, EcoFactor factor) Method to get the weight fora trait/factor pair (see above).

Method Detail

getFitness

double getFitness(Trait trait,
                  EcoFactor factor)

Method to evaluate the fitness of a trait of type Trait with respect to an environmental factor of type EcoFactor.

Parameters:

trait - the trait to be evaluated in the environment.

factor - the environmental factor.

Returns:

a value between 0 (unfit) and 1 (fit).

getWeight

double getWeight(Trait trait,
                 EcoFactor factor)

Method to get the weight fora trait/factor pair (see above).

Parameters:

trait - the trait to be evaluated in the environment.

factor - the environmental factor.

Returns:

any value greater than 0 if the pairing is significant, otherwise 0.