Re: [cilib-devel] Proportional Vmax

[Andries E. <en...@cs...>]

Thanks Gary,

We'll, that is what I also figured. For what I want to do,
the ProportinalControlParameter wil not work. Let me think
of a new implementation that will do what I want and still
keeps the current functionality.

Regards

Gary Pampara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, yes... I can't remember the orginal intent of the 
> ProportionalControlParameter, but it effectively maintains a proportion.
>
> For example. Within the TournamentSelection class, the proportion is set to 
> 0.1. The parameter is then used as follows:
>
> 	proportion.getParamter() * population.size()
>
> to obtain what 10% of the population would be.
>
> I think that this control parameter might be a little too stupid? We might 
> actually want to rethink the class's intent.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Monday 08 June 2009 10:03:23 Andries Engelbrecht wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want Vmax to be proportional to the domain of the
>> problem. That is, Vmax = k*(Max - Min), where 0 <= k <= 1.
>> I see there is a ProportionalControlParameter, but I can
>> not figure out how to use it for my purpose.  Before I
>> write something to extend ProportionalControlParameter
>> to base the value of a control parameter on the domain,
>> can any of you tell me how I can use the existing code to
>> reach my objective?
>>
>> Thanks
>>     
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