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

All Superinterfaces:

Initializable, Strategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

LinearDecayStrategy, NoDecayStrategy, SigmoidDecayStrategy

public interface DecayStrategy
extends Strategy

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

Author:

Javier Snaider, Ryan J. McCall

Method Summary

double	decay(double currentActivation, long ticks, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,? extends java.lang.Object> params) Decays the current activation according to some internal decay function.
double	decay(double currentActivation, long ticks, java.lang.Object... params) Decays the current activation according to some internal decay function.

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

containsParameter, getParam, getParameters, init, init

Method Detail

decay

double decay(double currentActivation,
             long ticks,
             java.lang.Object... params)

Decays the current activation according to some internal decay function.

Parameters:

currentActivation - activation of the entity before decay.

ticks - The number of ticks to decay.

params - optional parameters

Returns:

new activation

decay

double decay(double currentActivation,
             long ticks,
             java.util.Map<java.lang.String,? extends java.lang.Object> params)

Decays the current activation according to some internal decay function.

Parameters:

currentActivation - activation of the entity before decay.

ticks - how much time has passed since last decay

params - parameters

Returns:

new activation amount