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Re: [Cilib-users] PSO Class methods

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

Just bear in mind that CIlib handles the actual algorithm, problem and
then the associated measurements separately. They are tied together only
at the point where the algorithm is to be executed.


> Now that I have an "OptimisationProblem" defined I'm working to implement
> the PSO algorithm as a test. Progress is good but looking at the code for
> PSO I don't see a setParticles method. This differs from the specification
> in the API docs. If the API docs are wrong then how am I meant to
> configure this parameter?

Within all PopulationBasedAlgorithms there is a notion of a swarm or
population size. As a result we have pulled it out into a generic form
that all these algorithms an use.

We decided to refer to this as the PopulationInitialisationStrategy and
within the PSO class this is defaultly defined to be an instance of
ClonedPopulationInitialisationStrategy, whereby a prototype particle is
provided and the rest of the population look "similar" to the prototype.

On the PopuationInitialisationStrategy, there is an entityNumber variable
that you should alter to define the size of the swarm. This parameter is
defined to have a default value of 20.

Please note that CIlib has reasonable default values defined for all
classes. Differing behaviour can be added or set by redefining the default
values.

> Also, I see that there are different velocity, parameter and position
> updating strategies available amongst others. How are these applied to
> this
> algorithm? I see a IterationStrategy method but not much else.

PSO particles know how they are supposed to perform velocity / position
updates. All the required fields are set on the particle itself.

Using the above PopulationInitialisationStrategy, defining the way one
particle is structured, results in the entire swarm's particles having the
same velocity update strategy, position update strategy etc.

> p.s. I don't see the GCPSO algorithm amongst the listed PSO classes.

The GCPSO does in fact exsist. It's important to note that the algorithm
is not any different from a normal PSO. The only difference is the manner
in which VelocityUpdateStrategy is handled. As a result, a GCPSO can be
created by defining that the VelocityUpdateStrategy to use is a
GCVelocityUpdateStrategy.

Hope this helps.

We are currently formulating a "CIlib: Cookbook" where this type of recipe
information can be located. It's still very young, but please feel free to
post on this list and we'll get right back to you.

Regards,
Gary

[Cilib-users] PSO Class methods

[David R. <dav...@nt...>]

Hi,
Now that I have an "OptimisationProblem" defined I'm working to implement
the PSO algorithm as a test. Progress is good but looking at the code for
PSO I don't see a setParticles method. This differs from the specification
in the API docs. If the API docs are wrong then how am I meant to configure
this parameter?

Also, I see that there are different velocity, parameter and position
updating strategies available amongst others. How are these applied to this
algorithm? I see a IterationStrategy method but not much else.


Regards,
David

p.s. I don't see the GCPSO algorithm amongst the listed PSO classes. 

[Cilib-users] getClone(), why it exists

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

I was wondering why I added our own Cloneable interface to CIlib (after
Edwin asked me about it). I just looked at the javadoc associated with the
class and the reasons are actually rather obvious.

Currently within Java, java.util.Cloneable is a marker interface with no
methods defined within it. In Java, Object is defined to have the clone()
method, however, the method is protected and as a result you can only call
it from subclasses unless you change the access modifier.

The actual problem stems from the manner in which the generics in java
work. If the type parameter is not defined to have a particular starting
point, the default extended class will be Object, which is perfectly
correct from an object point of view. However, the accessor on Object is
protected and as a result you cannot invoke the method.

That was the reason for the introduction of our own Cloneable interface.

Regards,
Gary

Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi again,

>> Here it is:
>>
>> class PSOProblem : OptimisationProblem
>>     {
>>         public Problem getClone2()
>>         {
>>             return this.getClone;
>>         }
>>
>>         public OptimisationProblem getClone()
>>         {
>>             return this.getClone;
>>         }
>>
>>         public Cloneable getClone3()
>>         {
>>             return this.getClone;
>>         }
>>
>>     }
>
> That does look strange. I don't know if it's an artifact off the Ikvm
> integration or if it's something else. Gary, any ideas?

Just looking at the methods, it looks like it's creating a "getClone" for
every object in the hierarchy for OptimisationProblem. That's strange
behaviour imho.

Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Edwin P. <ed...@pe...>]

On Monday 19 May 2008 12:43:55 Gary Pampara wrote:

> David, based on the code you sent in the last email, are you compiling the
> code in C#? I'm not sure if that's possible as I don't know much about
> .net. Also, Java 1.5+ uses covariant return types so we can "overload" the
> return of the getClone() to make the code cleaner.

Sounds like IKVM might not support covariant return types?

> There are several reasons why we decided to add the getClone().
> Incidentally the Clonable interface in CIlib extends java.util.Cloneable.
> I need to check my notes why we didn't directly use the clone() withing
> Java, but one of the reasons that come to mind is that an base Object is
> returned. This caused some issues with a few classes, lemme get the exact
> reason and get back to you. If I remember correctly we had problems with
> some of the Java generics.

I'd be keen to understand those reasons -- the down cast from Object in a 
subclass isn't really that ugly. Well it is ugly, but it's not ugly enough to 
warrant doing things in non-standard ways IMHO. It makes it harder for new 
developers to understand what's going on because they expect it to work in a 
certain way, and in this particular case, the use of covariant returns types 
might just be what's breaking David's code in the IKVM environment.

Regards,
Edwin Peer

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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Edwin P. <ed...@pe...>]

On Monday 19 May 2008 12:42:23 you wrote:

> That's not what I mean. What I'm referring to is the minmove value of a
> particle. What is the default and smallest increment of the parameter space
> that a particle can move from / to?

Ah, okay. That would depend on the position and velocity update strategy as 
well as the PSO parameters being utilised. The StandardVelocityUpdate 
strategy also supports clamping of particle velocities through the VMax 
setting.

> Ikvm in static mode. BTW, how much of a performance overhead do you
> anticipate from this approach? Would you ever implement a .Net version of
> CILib?

Interesting, I have no idea what the performance implications are -- we would 
need to do some tests to determine that. Regarding a .NET version of CILib, I 
doubt we'll be doing that. But, that said, if there is a demand or need for 
such an animal, I'm sure someone will implement it. Time will tell...

> Here it is:
>
> class PSOProblem : OptimisationProblem
>     {
>         public Problem getClone2()
>         {
>             return this.getClone;
>         }
>
>         public OptimisationProblem getClone()
>         {
>             return this.getClone;
>         }
>
>         public Cloneable getClone3()
>         {
>             return this.getClone;
>         }
>
>     }

That does look strange. I don't know if it's an artifact off the Ikvm 
integration or if it's something else. Gary, any ideas?

Regards,
Edwin Peer

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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

There are several reasons why we decided to add the getClone().
Incidentally the Clonable interface in CIlib extends java.util.Cloneable.
I need to check my notes why we didn't directly use the clone() withing
Java, but one of the reasons that come to mind is that an base Object is
returned. This caused some issues with a few classes, lemme get the exact
reason and get back to you. If I remember correctly we had problems with
some of the Java generics.

Edwin is correct, the manner in which the Types work is fully extensible
and provides a variety of ways to get the required search space
initialised.

Currently there is a big drive to get some decent documentation out. I'm
writing where and what I can at the moment. Should have some decent
documentation out by version 0.7. It's more viable now that the framework
has become more stable.

David, based on the code you sent in the last email, are you compiling the
code in C#? I'm not sure if that's possible as I don't know much about
.net. Also, Java 1.5+ uses covariant return types so we can "overload" the
return of the getClone() to make the code cleaner.

Hope this helps,
Gary

> On Monday 19 May 2008 11:17:01 David Rooke wrote:
>
>> Regarding the searchspace, does CILib support irregularly shaped search
>> spaces? That is, non-cuboid? This is why I have each dimension of my
>> search
>> domain held in a collection, so that each dimension can be of any
>> length.
>
> Yes, this is supported. For example, the DomainParser accepts domain
> descriptions of the form "T(min_1, max_1), T(min_2, max_2), ..., R(min_n,
> max_n)", where T is the type and the arguments min_x and max_x correspond
> to
> minimum and maximums for the xth dimension of the search space
> respectively.
>
>> Also, what is the default granularity of the search space? Is it
>> configurable, if so how?
>
> If by granularity you are referring to the type, then yes. Z for integer,
> R
> for real, B for boolean, etc. The Type hierarchy is also extensible, so
> you
> can implement your own types if you so require. Note that there are also
> types implemented for trees and graphs to represent genetic programs, etc.
>
>> And on inheritance, I've built the shell of my optimization problem and
>> C#
>> is complaining to me in a way that tells me it expects me to build 3
>> instances of the getClone method (Cloneable, Problem and
>> OptimizationProblem). I'm not a coding veteran so I suspect I'm
>> misinterpreting what the compiler's trying to tell me:
>
> Out of curiosity, what are you using to provide the glue between C# and
> Java?
>
> I gather the getClone() method is supposed to make a deep copy of your
> problem, but I have no idea why it's been done this way - that's something
> new since I last looked at that particular code...
>
> Gary, what makes use of the getClone() method? Is there any reason why we
> don't rely on
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Cloneable.html instead?
>
>>         public OptimisationProblem getClone()
>>         {
>>             return this.getClone;
>>         }
>
> Looks like getClone() is recursively calling itself, which is probably not
> what you want to be doing... Can you post your complete code?
>
>> Once again, thanks for your help. The documentation is a little light so
>> I
>> do appreciate your assistance as I attempt to move from crawling to
>> walking;)
>
> We'll do our best. :) Gary, we really do need to get some up to date
> documentation fleshed out. In our defence though, the framework has been
> somewhat of a moving target with respect to getting documentation nailed
> down.
>
> Regards,
> Edwin Peer
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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Edwin P. <ed...@pe...>]

On Monday 19 May 2008 11:17:01 David Rooke wrote:

> Regarding the searchspace, does CILib support irregularly shaped search
> spaces? That is, non-cuboid? This is why I have each dimension of my search
> domain held in a collection, so that each dimension can be of any length.

Yes, this is supported. For example, the DomainParser accepts domain 
descriptions of the form "T(min_1, max_1), T(min_2, max_2), ..., R(min_n, 
max_n)", where T is the type and the arguments min_x and max_x correspond to 
minimum and maximums for the xth dimension of the search space respectively.

> Also, what is the default granularity of the search space? Is it
> configurable, if so how? 

If by granularity you are referring to the type, then yes. Z for integer, R 
for real, B for boolean, etc. The Type hierarchy is also extensible, so you 
can implement your own types if you so require. Note that there are also 
types implemented for trees and graphs to represent genetic programs, etc.
 
> And on inheritance, I've built the shell of my optimization problem and C#
> is complaining to me in a way that tells me it expects me to build 3
> instances of the getClone method (Cloneable, Problem and
> OptimizationProblem). I'm not a coding veteran so I suspect I'm
> misinterpreting what the compiler's trying to tell me:

Out of curiosity, what are you using to provide the glue between C# and Java? 

I gather the getClone() method is supposed to make a deep copy of your 
problem, but I have no idea why it's been done this way - that's something 
new since I last looked at that particular code... 

Gary, what makes use of the getClone() method? Is there any reason why we 
don't rely on 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Cloneable.html instead?

>         public OptimisationProblem getClone()
>         {
>             return this.getClone;
>         }

Looks like getClone() is recursively calling itself, which is probably not 
what you want to be doing... Can you post your complete code?

> Once again, thanks for your help. The documentation is a little light so I
> do appreciate your assistance as I attempt to move from crawling to
> walking;)

We'll do our best. :) Gary, we really do need to get some up to date 
documentation fleshed out. In our defence though, the framework has been 
somewhat of a moving target with respect to getting documentation nailed 
down.

Regards,
Edwin Peer

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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[David R. <dav...@nt...>]

Hi,
Thanks for the prompt feedback. I can now see the mechanism for specifying
the search space. In my case I think I'll run call setDomain from the
constuctor - that should do the job. However, I have a couple more
questions, one on the search space and another on the inheritance of the
interfaces.

Regarding the searchspace, does CILib support irregularly shaped search
spaces? That is, non-cuboid? This is why I have each dimension of my search
domain held in a collection, so that each dimension can be of any length.
Also, what is the default granularity of the search space? Is it
configurable, if so how? Otherwise, I think I'll go with your types for now
but look into creating my own later (I do have one or two that are
applicable).

And on inheritance, I've built the shell of my optimization problem and C#
is complaining to me in a way that tells me it expects me to build 3
instances of the getClone method (Cloneable, Problem and
OptimizationProblem). I'm not a coding veteran so I suspect I'm
misinterpreting what the compiler's trying to tell me:

Error	1	'PSOProb.OProblem' does not implement interface member
'net.sourceforge.cilib.problem.Problem.getClone()'.
'PSOProb.OProblem.getClone()' cannot implement
'net.sourceforge.cilib.problem.Problem.getClone()' because it does not have
the matching return type of 'net.sourceforge.cilib.problem.Problem'.	D:
\Source\PSO\PSOProb\PSO.cs	14	11	PSOProb

Error	2	'PSOProb.OProblem' does not implement interface member
'net.sourceforge.cilib.util.Cloneable.getClone()'.
'PSOProb.OProblem.getClone()' cannot implement
'net.sourceforge.cilib.util.Cloneable.getClone()' because it does not have
the matching return type of 'object'.	D: \Source\PSO\PSOProb\PSO.cs	14
11	PSOProb

I have the OptimizationProblem required instance of getClone specified with:

        public OptimisationProblem getClone()
        {
            return this.getClone;
        }

The demands of the interfaces have led me to implement similar code for
Problem and Cloneable. Clearly, I should not be having to specify 3 methods
for getClone. What do you suspect is wrong here? BTW, here's how I'm
declaring the class:

    class OProblem : OptimisationProblem


Once again, thanks for your help. The documentation is a little light so I
do appreciate your assistance as I attempt to move from crawling to
walking;)


Regards,
Dave

Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

Edwin, I agree that would make encapsulation make more sense. I'll check
it out and make the needed changes.

Regards,
Gary

> On Sunday 18 May 2008 15:59:30 David Rooke wrote:
>
>> Also, will CILib bark if, in my custom OptimizationProblem, I leave the
>> dataset empty? As I plan to implement this, my fitness function will
>> understand the data domain and feedback to the algorithm based on it's
>> search of the parameter space. The way CILib seems to be written it
>> expects
>> the user to pass the test data into it.
>
> Hi David,
>
> You do not need to pass your test data to CILib. The framework will pass
> candidate solutions to
> net.sourceforge.cilib.problem.OptimisationProblem.getFitness(), wherein
> you
> are responsible for calculating the Fitness in whatever way is most
> appropriate for your problem. Thus, only your OptimisationProblem
> specialisation need have access to your dataset and know how to measure
> the
> candidate solution against your data.
>
> As far as the search space is concerned, the framework will determine the
> domain by calling the OptimisationProblem.getDomain() method, wherein you
> must construct an appropriate DomainRegistry that describes your problem
> space.
>
> The DomainParser can be used to convert a string description of your
> search
> space (as described by Gary in a previous email) into an appropriate built
> repsentation (ie. a net.sourcefoge.cilib.type.types.Type representation).
> Refer to net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.Function for an example of this.
> Of
> course, there is nothing preventing you building your own Type
> representation
> either, if it's easier to map that onto your internal representation
> instead.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> Gary, just thinking aloud here... I don't think the setDomain() method in
> Function is the most appropriate place to parse domain strings. Shouldn't
> this logic rather be pushed down into a specialisation of DomainRegistry,
> say
> StringBasedDomainRegistry which accepts the domain string in its
> constructor?
>
> Then, the domain registry interface need only expose the
> getBuiltRepresentation() method which is used by the framework, and
> Funtion
> can return a new StringBasedDomainRegistry instead. This would encapsulate
> domain building from strings more cleanly in its own class and enable
> people
> like David to define his own mapping from problems to an appropriate
> "built
> representation" more intuitively as another subclass of DomainRegistry.
>
> Regards,
> Edwin Peer
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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Edwin P. <ed...@pe...>]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 15:59:30 David Rooke wrote:

> Also, will CILib bark if, in my custom OptimizationProblem, I leave the
> dataset empty? As I plan to implement this, my fitness function will
> understand the data domain and feedback to the algorithm based on it's
> search of the parameter space. The way CILib seems to be written it expects
> the user to pass the test data into it.

Hi David,

You do not need to pass your test data to CILib. The framework will pass  
candidate solutions to 
net.sourceforge.cilib.problem.OptimisationProblem.getFitness(), wherein you 
are responsible for calculating the Fitness in whatever way is most 
appropriate for your problem. Thus, only your OptimisationProblem 
specialisation need have access to your dataset and know how to measure the 
candidate solution against your data.

As far as the search space is concerned, the framework will determine the 
domain by calling the OptimisationProblem.getDomain() method, wherein you 
must construct an appropriate DomainRegistry that describes your problem 
space. 

The DomainParser can be used to convert a string description of your search 
space (as described by Gary in a previous email) into an appropriate built 
repsentation (ie. a net.sourcefoge.cilib.type.types.Type representation). 
Refer to net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.Function for an example of this. Of 
course, there is nothing preventing you building your own Type representation 
either, if it's easier to map that onto your internal representation instead.

Hope that helps...

Gary, just thinking aloud here... I don't think the setDomain() method in 
Function is the most appropriate place to parse domain strings. Shouldn't 
this logic rather be pushed down into a specialisation of DomainRegistry, say 
StringBasedDomainRegistry which accepts the domain string in its constructor?

Then, the domain registry interface need only expose the 
getBuiltRepresentation() method which is used by the framework, and Funtion 
can return a new StringBasedDomainRegistry instead. This would encapsulate 
domain building from strings more cleanly in its own class and enable people 
like David to define his own mapping from problems to an appropriate "built 
representation" more intuitively as another subclass of DomainRegistry.

Regards,
Edwin Peer

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Re: [Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi David,

Calling the Java code from C# shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Now for the search space: CIlib has the search space defined on the problem
on which the algorithm executes. We use a notion of a "Domain String" to
define the search space for the algorithm execution.

For example, looking at the following problem definition as defined using
XML:

<problem id="spherical" class="problem.FunctionMinimisationProblem">
  <function class="functions.continuous.Spherical" domain="R(-500,
500)^30" />
</problem>

This states that the problem for the algorithm should be a
FunctionMinimisationProblem with the Spherical function to be minimised.

The crux here is the attribute domain="R(-500,500)^30" which specifies
that the Spherical function has a search space defined in Real
(continuous) space with a lower bound of -500 and upper bound of 500. The
trailing ^30 means that the search space must be 30 dimensional, with each
dimension defined to be within (-500,500).

Programmatically, it is very similar. As you set up the algorithm with
code, you will set the domain in a very similar manner. On the Spherical
function there is a setDomain(String) method defined. You'll simply call
sphericalInstance.setDomain("R(-500,500)^30") to achieve the same as the
above XML example.

For your own OptimisationProblem, you need not define the DataSet. It's
merely there in case it is needed. You do not need to implement a DataSet.
Most of the predefined Problem objects do not use a DataSet.

I hope this helps :)

Shout if we can help more.

Regards,
Gary

PS: I know the documentation is a little lacking. We are currently working
on the documentation to correct this issue.


> Hi,
>
> I am new to CILib and am looking to call it from existing code (C#). In my
> code I have the search domain (minmax values) already configured in a
> collection (which includes some other parameters). Looking at the readme
> on
> using cilib in code it doesn't seem clear how the user can / should
> specify
> the search space. Some clarification on how I should approach passing my
> search space to the algorithm will be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Also, will CILib bark if, in my custom OptimizationProblem, I leave the
> dataset empty? As I plan to implement this, my fitness function will
> understand the data domain and feedback to the algorithm based on it's
> search of the parameter space. The way CILib seems to be written it
> expects
> the user to pass the test data into it.
>
>
>
> Any help / guidance offered will be warmly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>
>
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[Cilib-users] Calling cilib from existing code

[David R. <dav...@nt...>]

Hi,

I am new to CILib and am looking to call it from existing code (C#). In my
code I have the search domain (minmax values) already configured in a
collection (which includes some other parameters). Looking at the readme on
using cilib in code it doesn't seem clear how the user can / should specify
the search space. Some clarification on how I should approach passing my
search space to the algorithm will be appreciated.

 

Also, will CILib bark if, in my custom OptimizationProblem, I leave the
dataset empty? As I plan to implement this, my fitness function will
understand the data domain and feedback to the algorithm based on it's
search of the parameter space. The way CILib seems to be written it expects
the user to pass the test data into it.

 

Any help / guidance offered will be warmly appreciated.

 

 

Regards,

David

 

Re: [Cilib-users] question

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi Gao Hao,

Please give us the command you used to run the algorithm. Also, which
XML description did you use?

Regards,
Gary

浩 高 wrote:
> Dear all:
>     I am a learner of PSO I have download the cilib from the net,but I
> can't run the nichingpso on the maven platform.how shall i do,can you
> list the command which  I should typist ?
>       Thanks a lot!                                                   
> gao hao
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[Cilib-users] question

[<gao...@ya...>]

Dear all:
      I am a learner of PSO I have download the cilib from the net,but I can't run the nichingpso on the maven platform.how shall i do,can you list the command which  I should typist ?
        Thanks a lot!                                                    gao hao

       
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Re: [Cilib-users] what the heck???

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

I did commit the code, however, I unfortunately forgot to push it to
sourceforge.

Mistakes happen, get over it. It wasn't intientional. I appologise for the
inconvienience but there are more mature ways to handle situations like
this, rather than ranting.

Regards,
Gary


> It's crap like this that really gets to you; you know, the "at 5 this
> morning I started working again and did an svn update only to find that
> now
> mvn cannot  compile cilib" - moments....
>
> I genuinely hope this is a problem on my machine... I do I do I do...
> because then at least I can fix it... and i would mean that some idiot
> didn't check in bad code... which is a good thing, since I would like to
> believe that all who work on cilib are of advanced human intelligence
> incapable of making mistakes... - hey - I can believe what I want right?
>
> ps: no need to answer this mail... just thought i should tell somebody...
> i
> heard that when something traumatic happens to you, you should tell
> somebody...
>
> FYI:
>
> willie@gambit ~/subversion/cilib/trunk $ svn update
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/SplitCooperativeAlgorithm.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/splitstrategies/PerfectSplitStrategy.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/splitstrategies/SplitStrategy.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/SequentialPopulationIterator.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/PopulationIterator.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/RandomPopulationIterator.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/HybridCooperativeAlgorithm.java
> U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java
> U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/Algorithm.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/population/PopulationBasedAlgorithm.java
> U
> src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/population/MultiPopulationBasedAlgorithm.java
> U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java
> U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/coevolution/Coevolution.java
> U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java
> Updated to revision 409.
> willie@gambit ~/subversion/cilib/trunk $ mvn
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building cilib
> [INFO]    task-segment: [package]
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] [resources:resources]
> [INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
> [INFO] [compiler:compile]
> Compiling 14 source files to
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/target/classes
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Compilation failure
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java:[32,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java:[67,23]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class TopologyVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.Topology<E>
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[45,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[46,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[47,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[257,22]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class TopologyVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[33,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[34,43]
> package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[271,5]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[271,35]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[285,5]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class RadiusVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[285,33]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class RadiusVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[89,5]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single.Diameter
>
> /home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[89,35]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
> location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single.Diameter
>
>
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 4 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Tue Apr 03 04:15:55 GMT 2007
> [INFO] Final Memory: 11M/27M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Cheers,
> Willie van Zyl
>
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[Cilib-users] what the heck???

[Willie v. Z. <wmd...@gm...>]

It's crap like this that really gets to you; you know, the "at 5 this
morning I started working again and did an svn update only to find that now
mvn cannot  compile cilib" - moments....

I genuinely hope this is a problem on my machine... I do I do I do...
because then at least I can fix it... and i would mean that some idiot
didn't check in bad code... which is a good thing, since I would like to
believe that all who work on cilib are of advanced human intelligence
incapable of making mistakes... - hey - I can believe what I want right?

ps: no need to answer this mail... just thought i should tell somebody... i
heard that when something traumatic happens to you, you should tell
somebody...

FYI:

willie@gambit ~/subversion/cilib/trunk $ svn update
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/SplitCooperativeAlgorithm.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/splitstrategies/PerfectSplitStrategy.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/splitstrategies/SplitStrategy.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/SequentialPopulationIterator.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/PopulationIterator.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/populationiterators/RandomPopulationIterator.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/cooperative/HybridCooperativeAlgorithm.java
U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java
U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/Algorithm.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/population/PopulationBasedAlgorithm.java
U
src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/algorithm/population/MultiPopulationBasedAlgorithm.java
U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java
U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/coevolution/Coevolution.java
U    src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java
Updated to revision 409.
willie@gambit ~/subversion/cilib/trunk $ mvn
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building cilib
[INFO]    task-segment: [package]
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
Compiling 14 source files to
/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/target/classes
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java:[32,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/entity/Topology.java:[67,23]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class TopologyVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.Topology<E>

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[45,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[46,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[47,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[257,22]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class TopologyVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[33,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[34,43]
package net.sourceforge.cilib.entity.visitor does not exist

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[271,5]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[271,35]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[285,5]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class RadiusVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/pso/PSO.java:[285,33]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class RadiusVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.pso.PSO

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[89,5]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single.Diameter

/home/willie/subversion/cilib/trunk/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/cilib/measurement/single/Diameter.java:[89,35]
cannot find symbol
symbol  : class DiameterVisitor
location: class net.sourceforge.cilib.measurement.single.Diameter


[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Apr 03 04:15:55 GMT 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/27M
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------


Cheers,
Willie van Zyl

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Re: [Cilib-users] [Cirgr] Error running simulator

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hi,

Please provide me with some more details with regard to this.

What platform / simulator etc?

What is the exact error?

Also please post this email on cil...@li... for a
more speedy reply :)

Thanks,
Gary


> Hi there...
>
> When trying to use the simulator included in the latest build of CIlib
> I get an error that states the following:
>
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
>
> I've tried to find out why this happens but could not get anything
> useful. I've included the jar files necessary in my CLASSPATH and my
> JAVA_HOME is also set to the java directory.
>
> I will greatly appreciate it if anyone can help me in this regard as
> soon as possible...it's kind of urgent.
>
> Tnx
>
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Re: [Cilib-users] PHlywARMACY

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Re: [Cilib-users] introduction and some questions

[Gary P. <gpa...@cs...>]

Hello Soren,

Thanks for the kind comments :)

As far as I know there are no applications that use CILib within their
code base, although I cannot see why not as CILib has been designed to be
used in that way or simply via the simulator for tests etc.

The Simulator(IOC) was written to show the expressive power of CILib and
is not intended as the manner in which all applications of the library are
to be done. It works well for experimental work, however, if you would
like to integrate CILib into a project then I would advise using the
library directly. This however is completely up to you.

JNI would indeed be a valid option, a MSc student by the name of Marais
Neethling is using CILib in conjunction with JNI for BioInformatics
research applications, using the Vienna package as the fitness function
evaluator for  PSO.

If you need any explanation about the various aspects, please let us know.
We are currently revamping the documentation and correcting some minor
errors with it as well.

Keep an eye out for some updates that are to come.

Regards,
Gary

> Hello list,
>
> I am thrilled to find such a comprehensive open source library for dealing
> with computational intelligence, specifically particle swarm optimization
> problems. I have been reading over the documentation and the wiki
> information which has been posited online which have been very helpful.
> Ultimately, I would like to use JNI to call and pass datasets into cilib
> for
> optimization and send the data back to the native code. Would JNI be the
> best way to accomplish this? I was wondering if anyone has some example
> Java
> programs that use cilib part from the simulator and xml files included in
> the build? Thanks again for this great library!
>
> Best Regards,
> Soren
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[Cilib-users] introduction and some questions

[Soren M. <so...@do...>]

Hello list,

I am thrilled to find such a comprehensive open source library for dealing
with computational intelligence, specifically particle swarm optimization
problems. I have been reading over the documentation and the wiki
information which has been posited online which have been very helpful.
Ultimately, I would like to use JNI to call and pass datasets into cilib for
optimization and send the data back to the native code. Would JNI be the
best way to accomplish this? I was wondering if anyone has some example Java
programs that use cilib part from the simulator and xml files included in
the build? Thanks again for this great library!

Best Regards,
Soren

Re: [Cilib-users] certificate

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