Package unifeat.featureSelection.wrapper.ACOBasedMethods.OptimalACO

Class Ant

java.lang.Object

unifeat.featureSelection.wrapper.ACOBasedMethods.BasicAnt

unifeat.featureSelection.wrapper.ACOBasedMethods.OptimalACO.Ant

public class Ant
extends BasicAnt

This java class is used to represent an ant in optimal ant colony optimization (Optimal ACO) method.

Author:

Sina Tabakhi

See Also:

• BasicAnt

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private int	countSteps	Counts number of successive steps that an ant is not able to decrease the classification error rate

Fields inherited from class unifeat.featureSelection.wrapper.ACOBasedMethods.BasicAnt

featureSubset

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Ant()	Initializes the parameters

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	getCountSteps()	This method returns the current count steps of the ant.
ArrayList<Integer>	getFeasibleFeatureSet()	This method returns the feasible features that can be added to the current solution of the ant.
void	increaseCountSteps()	This method increases one step of the count steps of the ant.
void	setCountSteps(int countSteps)	This method sets the count steps of the ant.

Methods inherited from class unifeat.featureSelection.wrapper.ACOBasedMethods.BasicAnt

addFeature, emptyFeatureSubset, getFeatureSubset, getFeatureSubsetSize, getFitness, removeFeature, setFitness, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

countSteps

private int countSteps

Counts number of successive steps that an ant is not able to decrease the classification error rate

Constructor Details

Ant

public Ant()

Initializes the parameters

Method Details

getCountSteps

public int getCountSteps()

This method returns the current count steps of the ant.

Returns:

the current count steps of the ant

setCountSteps

public void setCountSteps(int countSteps)

This method sets the count steps of the ant.

Parameters:

countSteps - the input count steps

increaseCountSteps

public void increaseCountSteps()

This method increases one step of the count steps of the ant.

getFeasibleFeatureSet

public ArrayList<Integer> getFeasibleFeatureSet()

This method returns the feasible features that can be added to the current solution of the ant.

Specified by:

getFeasibleFeatureSet in class BasicAnt

Returns:

an array list of the feasible features