antsim.genie
Interface GeneticNest

All Superinterfaces:

Clearable, Nest

All Known Implementing Classes:

LocalGeneticNest

public interface GeneticNest

extends Nest

The GeneticNest interface extends Nest with methods for managing genetic codes to be used in the creation of new ants during the evaluation of the fitness of a genetic ant algorithm.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Alberto Montresor

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface anthill.nest.Nest

NAME

Method Summary

void	addGeneticCode(GeneticCode code) Add a new genetic code to the set of genetic codes known to this nest.

Methods inherited from interface anthill.nest.Nest

addAntNeighbour, addClientNeighbour, createResourceManager, getNeighbours, getNestId, getResourceManager, removeNeighbour, request

Methods inherited from interface anthill.util.Clearable

clear

Method Detail

addGeneticCode

public void addGeneticCode(GeneticCode code)

Add a new genetic code to the set of genetic codes known to this nest. When creating a new ant, this nest may choose from one of the available genetic codes. If an implementation of GeneticNest does not enable the use of more than one genetic code, duplicated invocations of addGeneticCode() must throw an IllegalStateException.

Parameters:

code - the genetic code to be added

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if no other genetic code can be added to this nest