com.rubecula.darwin.core
Class MateChoice_Abstract

java.lang.Object
  com.rubecula.darwin.core.MateChoice_Abstract

All Implemented Interfaces:

MateChoice

Direct Known Subclasses:

MateChoice_Default, MateChoice_PepperedMoth

public abstract class MateChoice_Abstract
extends Object
implements MateChoice

Abstract class defining the base methods of MateChoice.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Field Summary

protected static org.apache.commons.logging.Log

log The logger for this class.

Constructor Summary

MateChoice_Abstract(Random random)
protected constructor.

Method Summary

double	getDesirabilityIndex(Organism female, Organism male) Method to determine the desirability of a given male in the eyes, etc.
protected Random	getRandom()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.core.MateChoice

getMinimumDesirability

Field Detail

log

protected static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log log

The logger for this class.

Constructor Detail

MateChoice_Abstract

public MateChoice_Abstract(Random random)

protected constructor.

Method Detail

getDesirabilityIndex

public double getDesirabilityIndex(Organism female,
                                   Organism male)

Description copied from interface: MateChoice

Method to determine the desirability of a given male in the eyes, etc. of a given female.

Specified by:

getDesirabilityIndex in interface MateChoice

Parameters:

female - the choosy female.

male - the poor schmuck male.

Returns:

the desirability from 0 (not desirable) through infinity (totally desirable).

getRandom

protected Random getRandom()

Returns:

the random