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Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Documentation/Howto/Implement Genetic Programming Problems


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06/04/12 09:01:21 (12 years ago)
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  • Documentation/Howto/Implement Genetic Programming Problems

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    717717=== Problem Class ===
    718 Finally, we implement the {Problem} class.
     718Finally, we implement the {{{Problem}}} class. The {{{Problem}}} holds all necessary information of a lawn mower problem instance. It has multiple parameters which are set to instances of the classes that we implemented so far.
     719
     720The parameters for the problem are:
     721 * LawnWidth: Width of the lawn (integer, default value: 8)
     722 * LawnHeight: Height of the lawn (integer, default value: 8)
     723 * MaxProgramLength: Maximal length of the lawn mower program represented as a symbolic expression tree in number of nodes (integer, default value: 13)
     724 * MaxProgramDepth: Maximal depth of the lawn mower program represented as a symbolic expression tree (integer, default value: 1000 = no limit)
     725 * Grammar: The grammar for lawn mower programs that specifies syntactically correct lawn mower programs (Grammar, default value: new Grammar())
     726
     727These parameters are created in the constructor of the {{{Problem}}} class. The integer-valued parameters are created as {{{FixedValueParameters}}} to make sure that the contained IntValue instance cannot be replaced. The {{{Problem}}} class also provides properties for the parameters for convenience.
     728
     729In the {{{Problem}}} constructor we also instantiate our {{{Evaluator}}} for the lawn mower problem and a solution creator for symbolic expression trees (in this case the {{{RampedHalfAndHalfTreeCreator}}}). The solution creator and the {{{Evaluator}}} are necessary for the constructor of the base class ({{{SingleObjectiveHeuristicOptimizationProblem<Evaluator,ISymbolicExpressionTreeCreator>}}}).
     730
     731At the end of the {{{Problem}}} constructor we set the {{{Maximization}}} property to true (we want to maximize the mowed cells). Finally, we initialize the operators list for algorithms with {{{InitializeOperators()}}}.
     732{{{
     733#!csharp
     734    // default constructor for the problem
     735    // also creates the fitness evaluation operator (Evaluator),
     736    // and the tree creation operator (RampedHalfAndHalfTreeCreator)
     737    public Problem()
     738      : base(new Evaluator(), new RampedHalfAndHalfTreeCreator()) {
     739      Parameters.Add(
     740        new FixedValueParameter<IntValue>(
     741          LawnWidthParameterName,
     742          "Width of the lawn.",
     743          new IntValue(8)));
     744      Parameters.Add(
     745        new FixedValueParameter<IntValue>(
     746          LawnLengthParameterName,
     747          "Length of the lawn.",
     748          new IntValue(8)));
     749      Parameters.Add(
     750        new FixedValueParameter<IntValue>(
     751          MaxLawnMowerProgramDepthParameterName,
     752          "Maximal depth of the lawn mower program.",
     753          new IntValue(13)));
     754      Parameters.Add(
     755        new FixedValueParameter<IntValue>(
     756          MaxLawnMowerProgramLengthParameterName,
     757          "Maximal length of the lawn mower program.",
     758          new IntValue(1000)));
     759      Parameters.Add(
     760        new ValueParameter<Grammar>(
     761          LawnMowerGrammarParameterName,
     762          "Grammar for the lawn mower program.",
     763          new Grammar()));
     764      Maximization.Value = true;
     765      InitializeOperators();
     766    }
     767}}}
     768
     769
     770{{{InitializeOperator}}} must create the operators that algorithms can use to solve the problem and add them to the {{{Operators}}} list. Our lawn mower problem uses the symbolic expression tree encoding. Thus we can add all operators for symbolic expression trees. Usually we also want to add some analyzers to generate results but this  is optional. In this case we add a tree-length analyzer, a symbol-frequency analyzer and a best solution analyzer.
     771{{{
     772#!csharp
     773 // ...
     774 Operators.AddRange(
     775        ApplicationManager.Manager.GetInstances<ISymbolicExpressionTreeOperator>());
     776 Operators.Add(new MinAverageMaxSymbolicExpressionTreeLengthAnalyzer());
     777 Operators.Add(new SymbolicExpressionSymbolFrequencyAnalyzer());
     778 Operators.Add(new BestSolutionAnalyzer());
     779}}}
     780
     781Next the operators must be configured. The actual parameter names of the operators must match the parameter names of the problem to guarantee that the operator will find the necessary parameter values when executed.
     782This operator parameter matching is at the core of all remaining code.
     783
     784In {{{ParameterizeOperators()}}} we iterate over all kinds of interfaces for symbolic expression tree operators and set the actual names of parameters defined in these interfaces to the names of the parameters supplied by the lawn mower problem.
     785{{{
     786#!csharp
     787    private void ParameterizeOperators() {
     788      var operators = Parameters
     789        .OfType<IValueParameter>()
     790        .Select(p => p.Value)
     791        .OfType<IOperator>()
     792        .Union(Operators);
     793      foreach (var o in operators.OfType<ISymbolicExpressionTreeGrammarBasedOperator>()) {
     794        o.SymbolicExpressionTreeGrammarParameter.ActualName =
     795          LawnMowerGrammarParameterName;
     796      }
     797      foreach (var o in operators.OfType<ISymbolicExpressionTreeSizeConstraintOperator>()) {
     798        o.MaximumSymbolicExpressionTreeDepthParameter.ActualName =
     799          MaxLawnMowerProgramDepthParameterName;
     800        o.MaximumSymbolicExpressionTreeLengthParameter.ActualName =
     801          MaxLawnMowerProgramLengthParameterName;
     802      }
     803      foreach (var op in operators.OfType<Evaluator>()) {
     804        op.LawnMowerProgramParameter.ActualName =
     805          SolutionCreator.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName;
     806        op.LawnLengthParameter.ActualName = LawnLengthParameterName;
     807        op.LawnWidthParameter.ActualName = LawnWidthParameterName;
     808      }
     809      foreach (var op in operators.OfType<ISymbolicExpressionTreeCrossover>()) {
     810        op.ParentsParameter.ActualName =
     811          SolutionCreator.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName;
     812        op.ChildParameter.ActualName =
     813          SolutionCreator.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName;
     814      }
     815      foreach (var op in operators.OfType<ISymbolicExpressionTreeManipulator>()) {
     816        op.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName =
     817          SolutionCreator.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName;
     818      }
     819      foreach (var op in operators.OfType<ISymbolicExpressionTreeCreator>()) {
     820        op.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName =
     821          SolutionCreator.SymbolicExpressionTreeParameter.ActualName;
     822      }
     823    }
     824}}}
    719825
    720826{{{Problem.cs}}}