edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.actionselection
Interface ActionSelection

All Superinterfaces:

FrameworkModule, FullyInitializable, Initializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicActionSelection, BehaviorNetwork

public interface ActionSelection
extends FrameworkModule

Specification for the action selection module of LIDA.

Author:

Ryan J. McCall

Method Summary

void	addActionSelectionListener(ActionSelectionListener l) Adds specified ActionSelectionListener.
void	addPreafferenceListener(PreafferenceListener l) Adds specified PreafferenceListener
java.util.Collection<Behavior>	getBehaviors() Returns a view of the behaviors currently in ActionSelection
Behavior	selectBehavior(java.util.Collection<Behavior> behaviors, double candidateThreshold) Selects a behavior (containing an action) for execution.

Methods inherited from interface edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.FrameworkModule

addListener, addSubModule, containsSubmodule, containsSubmodule, decayModule, getAssistingTaskSpawner, getModuleContent, getModuleName, getSubmodule, getSubmodule, getSubmodules, setAssistingTaskSpawner, setModuleName, taskManagerDecayModule

Methods inherited from interface edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.initialization.FullyInitializable

setAssociatedModule

Methods inherited from interface edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.initialization.Initializable

containsParameter, getParam, getParameters, init, init

Method Detail

addActionSelectionListener

void addActionSelectionListener(ActionSelectionListener l)

Adds specified ActionSelectionListener.

Parameters:

l - a module that receives selected actions from ActionSelection

addPreafferenceListener

void addPreafferenceListener(PreafferenceListener l)

Adds specified PreafferenceListener

Parameters:

l - a module that receives preafference from ActionSelection

selectBehavior

Behavior selectBehavior(java.util.Collection<Behavior> behaviors,
                        double candidateThreshold)

Selects a behavior (containing an action) for execution.

Parameters:

behaviors - Collection of behaviors currently available in the module

candidateThreshold - threshold for a behavior to be a candidate

Returns:

winning Behavior or null if none was chosen

getBehaviors

java.util.Collection<Behavior> getBehaviors()

Returns a view of the behaviors currently in ActionSelection

Returns:

a Collection of Behavior objects