antsim
Interface Experiment

All Superinterfaces:

Clearable

All Known Subinterfaces:

GeneticExperiment

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExperimentImpl, RangeExperiment, TimeExperiment

public interface Experiment

extends Clearable

The Experiment interface represents the execution of a set of Scenarios. When executed, an experiment returns a collection of Stats objects containing statistics about the behavior of the current ant algorithm.

Different Experiment implementations may provide distinct functionalities to ant developers. For example, a basic implementation could simply repeat the execution of the same scenario for a certain number of times, while others could collect statistics for different scenarios, or show the behavior of an algorithm over time.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Alberto Montresor

Field Summary

static String

NAME Identifier used in the configuration files

Method Summary

Object

evaluate() Perform the evaluation of the current ant algorithm.

Methods inherited from interface anthill.util.Clearable

clear

Field Detail

NAME

public static final String NAME

Identifier used in the configuration files

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

evaluate

public Object evaluate()

Perform the evaluation of the current ant algorithm. Returns an array of Stats objects containing the statistics collected during the simulation.