org.biojavax.ga

Interface GAStoppingCriteria

All Known Implementing Classes:

GAStoppingCriteria.MaximumGeneration

public interface GAStoppingCriteria

Used by a GeneticAlgorithm.run() method to determine when the algorithm should stop

Since:

1.5

Version:

1.0

Author:

Mark Schreiber

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	GAStoppingCriteria.MaximumGeneration Simple Implementation of GAStoppingCriteria, signals a GeneticAlgorithm to stop after n generations Useful for pausing and seeing what the state of the algorithm is at any particular time and possibly changing parameters etc before calling the run() method of the GeneticAlgorithm again.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	stop(GeneticAlgorithm ga) Determines if an Algorithm should stop spawning new generations

Method Detail

stop

boolean stop(GeneticAlgorithm ga)

Determines if an Algorithm should stop spawning new generations

Parameters:

ga - the Algorithm to test

Returns:

true if it should stop, false otherwise.