edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.strategies
Interface ExciteStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Initializable, Strategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

LinearExciteStrategy, NoExciteStrategy, SigmoidExciteStrategy

public interface ExciteStrategy
extends Strategy

A strategy pattern for exciting Activatibles or Learnables Implementations should add themselves to ElementFactory via the factoriesData.xml configuration file.

Author:

Javier Snaider, Ryan J. McCall

Method Summary

double	excite(double currentActivation, double excitation, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,? extends java.lang.Object> params) Excites the current activation according to some internal excite function.
double	excite(double currentActivation, double excitation, java.lang.Object... params) Excites the current activation according to some internal excite function.

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

containsParameter, getParam, getParameters, init, init

Method Detail

excite

double excite(double currentActivation,
              double excitation,
              java.lang.Object... params)

Excites the current activation according to some internal excite function.

Parameters:

currentActivation - activation of the entity before excite.

excitation - amount of activation to adds

params - parameters

Returns:

new activation amount

excite

double excite(double currentActivation,
              double excitation,
              java.util.Map<java.lang.String,? extends java.lang.Object> params)

Excites the current activation according to some internal excite function.

Parameters:

currentActivation - activation of the entity before excite.

excitation - amount of activation to adds

params - parameters

Returns:

new activation amount