com.rubecula.darwin.foundation
Interface Evolvable

All Superinterfaces:

Generational, net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable, Terminal, Theological

All Known Subinterfaces:

Taxon

All Known Implementing Classes:

Evolvable_, Population_, Population_Malthusian, Population_Managed, Population_TS, Taxon_, Taxon_Darwinian

public interface Evolvable
extends net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable, Generational, Theological, Terminal

This interface defines the concept of an Evolvable, something which can evolve. This concept is central to the Darwin framework and forms part of a triad of fundamental concepts:

• Evolution;
• Evolvable, typically a Taxon;
• user interface, typically, but not necessarily, an Applet.

The properties of an Evolvable are as follows:

• generation (read-only property);
• finished (read-only property);
• the next generation (invoking Generational.nextGeneration() is what causes the Evolvable to evolve a generation at a time):
• the ability to be seeded.

Version:

$Revision: 1.15 $

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

int	getGeneration()
java.lang.Object	getResult()

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

getIdentifier

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.foundation.Generational

nextGeneration

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.foundation.Theological

cullMembers, seedMembers

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.foundation.Terminal

isFinished

Method Detail

getGeneration

int getGeneration()

Returns:

the sequence number of the current generation.

getResult

java.lang.Object getResult()

Returns:

the result