ants.freeant
Class Gnutant

java.lang.Object
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  +--ants.freeant.Gnutant

All Implemented Interfaces:

Ant, Serializable

public class Gnutant

extends Object

implements Ant, Serializable

Version:

$Revision: 1.6 $

Author:

Alberto Montresor

, Hein Meling

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Gnutant(RequestId rid, String query, HashedKeyword key, NestId requestor, float explorationProbability, int trailAttempts, double trailDev, int explorationAttempts, int maxResources, int maxProviders)
Instantiate a new Gnutant by setting the query to be satisfied and the hash value to be searched.

Method Summary

void	doSearch(AntView view)
String	getSpecies() Returns the identifier of the "species" of this ant.
void	init(AntView view) FIXME: add this method to AntView; add the invocation of this method in the local nest.
void	readExternal(ObjectInput in)
void	run(AntView view) This method encapsulate the computation performed by the ant.
void	writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Gnutant

public Gnutant(RequestId rid,
               String query,
               HashedKeyword key,
               NestId requestor,
               float explorationProbability,
               int trailAttempts,
               double trailDev,
               int explorationAttempts,
               int maxResources,
               int maxProviders)

Instantiate a new Gnutant by setting the query to be satisfied and the hash value to be searched.

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)

FIXME: add this method to AntView; add the invocation of this method in the local nest. Note that this method should be used only for ant configuration, so we may want to disable move and addAnt in view.

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

doSearch

public void doSearch(AntView view)

writeExternal

public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out)
                   throws IOException

IOException

readExternal

public void readExternal(ObjectInput in)