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added ecj and custom statistics to communicate with the okb services #1441
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1 | /*
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2 | Copyright 2006 by Sean Luke
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3 | Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0
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4 | See the file "LICENSE" for more information
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5 | */
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6 |
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7 |
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8 | package ec;
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9 |
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10 | /*
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11 | * Group.java
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12 | *
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13 | * Created: Tue Aug 10 20:49:45 1999
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14 | * By: Sean Luke
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15 | */
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16 |
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17 | /**
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18 | * Groups are used for populations and subpopulations. They are slightly
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19 | * different from Prototypes in a few important ways.
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20 | *
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21 | * A Group instance typically is set up with setup(...) and then <i>used</i>
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22 | * (unlike in a Prototype, where the prototype instance is never used,
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23 | * but only makes clones
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24 | * which are used). When a new Group instance is needed, it is created by
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25 | * calling emptyClone() on a previous Group instance, which returns a
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26 | * new instance set up exactly like the first Group instance had been set up
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27 | * when setup(...) was called on it.
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28 | *
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29 | * Groups are Serializable and Cloneable, but you should not clone
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30 | * them -- use emptyClone instead.
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31 | *
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32 | *
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33 | * @author Sean Luke
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34 | * @version 1.0
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35 | */
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36 |
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37 | public interface Group extends Setup, Cloneable
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38 | {
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39 | /** Returns a copy of the object just as it had been
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40 | immediately after Setup was called on it (or on
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41 | an ancestor object). You can obtain a fresh instance
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42 | using clone(), and then modify that.
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43 | */
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44 | public Group emptyClone();
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45 | }
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