package net.adaptivebox.sco; /** * Description: The description of social cognitive agent. * * @Information source: a) external library (L); b) the own memory: a point that * generated in the last learning cycle * * @Coefficients: TaoB and TaoW * * @ Author Create/Modi Note * Xiaofeng Xie Mar 11, 2003 * Xiaofeng Xie May 11, 2004 * Xiaofeng Xie May 20, 2004 * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * Please acknowledge the author(s) if you use this code in any way. * * @version 1.0 * @Since MAOS1.0 * * @References: * [1] Xie X F, Zhang W J. Solving engineering design problems by social cognitive * optimization. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2004: 261-262 */ import net.adaptivebox.global.*; import net.adaptivebox.space.*; import net.adaptivebox.goodness.*; import net.adaptivebox.problem.*; import net.adaptivebox.knowledge.*; public class SCAgent { //Describes the problem to be solved (encode the point into intermediate information) private ProblemEncoder problemEncoder; //Forms the goodness landscape private IGoodnessCompareEngine specComparator; //the coefficients of SCAgent protected int TaoB = 2; //The early version set TaoW as the size of external library (NL), but 4 is often enough protected int TaoW = 4; //The referred external library protected Library externalLib; //store the point that generated in current learning cycle protected SearchPoint trailPoint; //the own memory: store the point that generated in last learning cycle protected SearchPoint pcurrent_t; public void setExternalLib(Library lib) { externalLib = lib; } public void setProblemEncoder(ProblemEncoder encoder) { problemEncoder = encoder; trailPoint = problemEncoder.getFreshSearchPoint(); pcurrent_t = problemEncoder.getEncodedSearchPoint(); } public void setSpecComparator(IGoodnessCompareEngine comparer) { specComparator = comparer; } public SearchPoint generatePoint() { //generate a new point generatePoint(trailPoint); //evalute the generated point problemEncoder.evaluate(trailPoint); return trailPoint; } protected void generatePoint(ILocationEngine tempPoint) { SearchPoint Xmodel, Xrefer, libBPoint; // choose Selects a better point (libBPoint) from externalLib (L) based // on tournament selection int xb = externalLib.tournamentSelection(specComparator, TaoB, true); libBPoint = externalLib.getSelectedPoint(xb); // Compares pcurrent_t with libBPoint // The better one becomes model point (Xmodel) // The worse one becomes refer point (Xrefer) if(specComparator.compare(pcurrent_t.getEncodeInfo(), libBPoint.getEncodeInfo())==IGoodnessCompareEngine.LARGER_THAN) { Xmodel = libBPoint; Xrefer = pcurrent_t; } else { Xmodel = pcurrent_t; Xrefer = libBPoint; } // observational learning: generates a new point near the model point, which // the variation range is decided by the difference of Xmodel and Xrefer inferPoint(tempPoint, Xmodel, Xrefer, problemEncoder.getDesignSpace()); } //1. Update the current point into the external library //2. Replace the current point by the generated point public void updateInfo() { //Selects a bad point kw from TaoW points in Library int xw = externalLib.tournamentSelection(specComparator, TaoW, false); //Repaces kw with pcurrent_t externalLib.getSelectedPoint(xw).importPoint(pcurrent_t); //Repaces pcurrent_t (x(t)) with trailPoint (x(t+1)) pcurrent_t.importPoint(trailPoint); } // 1---model point, 2---refer point public boolean inferPoint(ILocationEngine newPoint, ILocationEngine point1,ILocationEngine point2, DesignSpace space){ double[] newLoc = newPoint.getLocation(); double[] real1 = point1.getLocation(); double[] real2 = point2.getLocation(); for (int i=0; i