Integrate NK landscapes

[ascheibe]

The NK landscapes problem from epitzer from the FLA branch should be integrated into trunk. I think this is quite often used as a benchmark problem and therefore we should also ship this by default.

[ascheibe]

r12483 added a new project for NK landscapes and ported it to BasicProblem

[ascheibe]

r12565 merged changes from copy of NK landscapes back into original plugin and deleted copy

[ascheibe]

r12566

• removed unused usings
• renamed plugin.cs file
• fixed prebuild event
• fixed plugin dependencies
• added license headers
• updated assemblyinfo

[ascheibe]

Some notes/observations:

• Button for re-initialization of problem needs to be added
• f_i could be removed if it is not needed
• Is the bool matrix bitmap view still needed?
• Decide if Maximization/Minimization. This is not consistent with BestKnownSolution atm.
• Should random/hashAlgorithm be storable?
• Should random/hashAlgorithm be cloneable?
• Decide which functions for fitness calculation need to be public.
• Default configuration of problem should just be standard NK landscape.
• I think the WeightInitializers should be normal Items, not NamedItems. Also, one is a ParameterizedNamedItem, the other ones are just NamedItems. Because there is only an interface, I would opt for a base class that inherits from ParameterizedNamedItem.
• All weight initializers should be sealed classes that do not handle CanChangeName, Name, ItemName, etc. by themselves.
• The same also applies to InteractionInitializers
• For the default problem configuration, I do not seem to get a better quality than 2.5. Shouldn't it be 0?

[ascheibe]

r12569 fixed typos and some cosmetic changes

[ascheibe]

r12573 hopefully fixed random number generation problem

[ascheibe]

r12574 improved BoolMatrix View

[ascheibe]

Review Comments/TODO

• Check if BinaryVectorEncoding parameter can be hidden
• Local Analysis should be "Analysis" and not "Algorithm"
• InteractionInitializerParameter ValueChanged is not always fired
• GeneInteractionsInitializer should fire parameter changed events and notify the problem
• Make BoolMatrix View Default View for BoolMatrices
• Hide Weights/WeightInits/InteractionInits
• Make BoolMatrixView toggable
• Add row and column headers

[epitzer]

r12575 Add RealVectorDistanceCalculator (for neutral walks on real vector problems)

[epitzer]

r12576 Implement NKq and NKp landscape (and fix Seed parameter clash with Algorithm's seed)

[ascheibe]

r12582 made comparers and initializers consistent

[ascheibe]

r12592

• hide weight and interaction initializer parameters
• hide encoding parameter
• removed setting of BestKnownQuality
• added wiring code for interaction and weight initializers that have parameters
• made all interaction/weight initializers ParameterizedNamedItem

[ascheibe]

r12593 fixed name of bool matrix view

[ascheibe]

r12594 fixed pre-build event

[ascheibe]

r12596 some cosmetic changes

[ascheibe]

r12601 added missing modifier

[ascheibe]

r12602 moved BoolMatrixView to trunk

[ascheibe]

r12603 deleted NK.Views project from branch

[ascheibe]

r12604 moved Problems.NK to trunk

[ascheibe]

r12605 removed Problems.NK from branch

[ascheibe]

r12606 fixed references of Problems.NK project

[ascheibe]

r12640 fixed Createable attribute of NK landscape

[ascheibe]

r12730 merged r12604, r12606, r12640 into stable