edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.globalworkspace
Interface Coalition

All Superinterfaces:

Activatible, Initializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

CoalitionImpl

public interface Coalition
extends Activatible

An encapsulation of perceptual content and an AttentionCodelet Coalition objects are created and added to the GlobalWorkspace by AttentionCodelet objects. Coalition must overwrite correctly Object.equals(Object) and Object.hashCode() methods.

Author:

Javier Snaider, Ryan J. McCall

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.shared.activation.Activatible

DEFAULT_ACTIVATIBLE_REMOVAL_THRESHOLD, DEFAULT_ACTIVATION

Method Summary

BroadcastContent	getContent() Returns the content of the coalition.
AttentionCodelet	getCreatingAttentionCodelet() Returns the creating AttentionCodelet that created this coalition
int	getId() Returns the id

Methods inherited from interface edu.memphis.ccrg.lida.framework.shared.activation.Activatible

decay, excite, getActivatibleRemovalThreshold, getActivation, getDecayStrategy, getExciteStrategy, getTotalActivation, isRemovable, setActivatibleRemovalThreshold, setActivation, setDecayStrategy, setExciteStrategy

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

containsParameter, getParam, getParameters, init, init

Method Detail

getContent

BroadcastContent getContent()

Returns the content of the coalition.

Returns:

The BroadcastContent of the coalition

getCreatingAttentionCodelet

AttentionCodelet getCreatingAttentionCodelet()

Returns the creating AttentionCodelet that created this coalition

Returns:

The AttentionCodelet that help form this coalition

getId

int getId()

Returns the id

Returns:

the unique id of the Coalition