ants.jxtagnutant
Class BackwardGnutant

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

Ant, Serializable

public class BackwardGnutant

extends Object

implements Ant, Serializable

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $

Author:

Hein Meling

, Francesco Russo (frusso@cs.unibo.it)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

BackwardGnutant()
Default constructor for externalization

BackwardGnutant(HashedKeyword keyhash, Resource[] resources, ArrayList path)
Initializes a new BackwardGnutant with the set of resources to be used for updating the distributed index.

Method Summary

String	getSpecies() Returns the identifier of the "species" of this ant.
void	init(AntView view) This method is called on ants at the initialization time.
void	run(AntView view) This method encapsulate the computation performed by the ant.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BackwardGnutant

public BackwardGnutant()

Default constructor for externalization

BackwardGnutant

public BackwardGnutant(HashedKeyword keyhash,
                       Resource[] resources,
                       ArrayList path)

Initializes a new BackwardGnutant with the set of resources to be used for updating the distributed index.

Method Detail

getSpecies

public String getSpecies()

Description copied from interface: Ant

Returns the identifier of the "species" of this ant. Different ant species may have access to different pheromone information in nests.

Specified by:

getSpecies in interface Ant

init

public void init(AntView view)

Description copied from interface: Ant

This method is called on ants at the initialization time. The view delivered to ants is not fully functional; for example, ants cannot move to other nests or create new ants during the execution of init(). FIXME Implement the control in LocalAntView.

Specified by:

init in interface Ant

run

public void run(AntView view)

This method encapsulate the computation performed by the ant.

Specified by:

run in interface Ant

Parameters:

view - reference to the AntView object which constitutes the controlled environment of the ant