ifs.heuristics
Class GeneralValueSelection

java.lang.Object
  ifs.heuristics.GeneralValueSelection

All Implemented Interfaces:

ValueSelection

public class GeneralValueSelection
extends Object
implements ValueSelection

General implementation of value selection criterion.

Value selection criterion is based on weighted sum of various criteria. It also allows random walk technique and tabu search.
Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Comment
General.MPP	Boolean	if true, MPP is being solved
Value.MPPLimit	Integer	MPP: limitation of the number of allowed perturbations. If a solution within this limit is gound, it is decreased.
Value.InitialSelectionProb	Double	MPP: probability of selection of the initial value
Value.RandomWalkProb	Double	Random Walk: probability of selection of a value randomly among all the values
Value.Tabu	Integer	Tabu Search: length of the tabu-list
Value.GoodSelectionProb	Double	In case of MacPropagation, with this probability (1.0 means always), the selection is made only among good values (not removed from the domain).

Following weights are used in the weighted sum (computed for all values). The value with the lowest weighted sum is selected. If there are more than one of such values, one of them is selected randomly.

Parameter	Type	Comment
Value.WeightDeltaInitialAssignments	Double	MPP: Difference in the number of assigned initial values if the value is assigned to the variable (weighted by this Value.WeightDeltaInitialAssignments): -1 if the value is initial, 0 otherwise, increased by the number of initial values assigned to variables with hard conflicts with the value
Value.WeightWeightedConflicts	Double	When ConflictStatistics is used: weighted number of conflicting variables
Value.WeightPotentialConflicts	Double	When ConflictStatistics is used: weighted number of potentially conflicting variables
Value.WeightConflicts	Double	Number of conflicting variables Model.conflictValues(Value).
Value.WeightNrAssignments	Double	Number of previous assignments of the value
Value.WeightValue	Double	Value Value.toInt()

Version:

1.0

Author:

Tomáš Müller

See Also:

VariableSelection, Solver

Constructor Summary

GeneralValueSelection()

GeneralValueSelection(DataProperties properties)
Constructor

Method Summary

void	init(Solver solver) Initialization
Value	selectValue(Solution solution, Variable selectedVariable) Value selecion

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GeneralValueSelection

public GeneralValueSelection()

GeneralValueSelection

public GeneralValueSelection(DataProperties properties)

Constructor

Parameters:

properties - input configuration

Method Detail

init

public void init(Solver solver)

Initialization

Specified by:

init in interface ValueSelection

selectValue

public Value selectValue(Solution solution,
                         Variable selectedVariable)

Value selecion

Specified by:

selectValue in interface ValueSelection

Parameters:

solution - current solution

selectedVariable - selected variable