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.problem.ProblemEncoder; import net.adaptivebox.space.DesignSpace; import net.adaptivebox.space.ILocationEngine; import net.adaptivebox.global.RandomGenerator; import net.adaptivebox.goodness.IGoodnessCompareEngine; import net.adaptivebox.knowledge.Library; import net.adaptivebox.knowledge.SearchPoint; 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 private static final int TaoB = 2; // The early version set TaoW as the size of external library (NL), but 4 is often enough private static final int TaoW = 4; // The referred external library private Library externalLib; // store the point that generated in current learning cycle private SearchPoint trailPoint; // the own memory: store the point that generated in last learning cycle private 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); // evaluate the generated point problemEncoder.evaluate(trailPoint); return trailPoint; } private 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); // Replaces kw with pcurrent_t externalLib.getSelectedPoint(xw).importPoint(pcurrent_t); // Replaces pcurrent_t (x(t)) with trailPoint (x(t+1)) pcurrent_t.importPoint(trailPoint); } // 1---model point, 2---refer point private 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 < newLoc.length; i++) { newLoc[i] = real1[i] * 2 - real2[i]; // boundary handling newLoc[i] = space.boundAdjustAt(newLoc[i], i); newLoc[i] = RandomGenerator.doubleRangeRandom(newLoc[i], real2[i]); } return true; } }