de.cesr.lara.components.decision.impl
Class LExplorationDeciderFactory<A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>>

java.lang.Object
  de.cesr.lara.components.decision.impl.LExplorationDeciderFactory<A,BO>

Type Parameters:

A - type of agent

BO - type of behavioural option

All Implemented Interfaces:

LaraDeciderFactory<A,BO>

public class LExplorationDeciderFactory<A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>>
extends Object
implements LaraDeciderFactory<A,BO>

This decider factory creates a decider that just fetches the aagent's preceding behavioural actions and chooses it as new action. TODO when the model selector is able to define/alter the course of decision making, this steps of the factory and decider might be omitted. However, it could be useful to evaluate not only the last but the k last actions...

Method Summary

LaraDecider<BO>	getDecider(A agent, LaraDecisionConfiguration dConfiguration)
static <A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>> LaraDeciderFactory<A,BO>	getFactory(Class<A> clazz) The problem: In java, non-static class AgentT (parameter) cannot be referenced from a static context, since there is only one class per class no matter how many parameters it has.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getFactory

public static <A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>> LaraDeciderFactory<A,BO> getFactory(Class<A> clazz)

The problem: In java, non-static class AgentT (parameter) cannot be referenced from a static context, since there is only one class per class no matter how many parameters it has. On the other hand, for a singleton one needs to assure that it returns an instance of the requested parameter. In order to prevent from instancing a map of parameter-to-instance pairs we check if the current instance's parameter is valid by comparing the class object and create a new instance if not. In case of many agent classes the map approach might be more efficient. For few agent classes it is unproblematic as long as agents of a certain class are executed in line and different agent classes are not mixed to often.

Type Parameters:

A -

BO -

Parameters:

clazz -

Returns:

an instance of this factory

getDecider

public LaraDecider<BO> getDecider(A agent,
                                  LaraDecisionConfiguration dConfiguration)

Specified by:

getDecider in interface LaraDeciderFactory<A extends LaraAgent<A,BO>,BO extends LaraBehaviouralOption<?,? extends BO>>

Returns:

the valid LaraDecider

See Also:

LaraDeciderFactory.getDecider(de.cesr.lara.components.agents.LaraAgent, de.cesr.lara.components.decision.LaraDecisionConfiguration)