ideation.Game Class Reference

Provides the structures and methods for a single ideation game. More...

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Public Member Functions
void	play ()
	Play the game.
void	addNewAgent (Agent addi)
	Adds a new Agent to the game.
Incentive	getIncentive ()
Package Functions
	Game ()
	internal Constructor
	Game (int gameLength)
	internal Constructor
	Game (Incentive incentive, Environment world, Vector< heuristic > initialTypes, int gameLength, int repetition)
	external Constructor

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Detailed Description

This class is invoked by Test Case ideation.TestCase and then runs a corresponding ideation game and stores all the related data. If a single game is wanted a main method can be added here.

Author:

Ruediger Ruwe <ruediger.ruwe @ rwth-aachen.de>

Version:

1.0

Since:

01.06.2012

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ideation.Game.Game

(

)

[package]

this should not be called from outside, several crucial parameters would be missing.

ideation.Game.Game

(

int

gameLength

)

[package]

this should not be called from outside, several crucial parameters would be missing.

Parameters:

gameLength

the length of the game until it is ended.

ideation.Game.Game	(	Incentive	incentive,
		Environment	world,
		Vector< heuristic >	initialTypes,
		int	gameLength,
		int	repetition
	)		[package]

Creates a game with initial Agents who have the heuristics as specified in initialTypes.

Parameters:

incentive	the incentive scheme ideation.Incentive
world	the environment ideation.Environment
initialTypes	a vector with the desired types of the agents that will be created at the start of the game. ideation.Agent
gameLength	the length of the game until it is ended.
repetition	in a TestCase ideation.TestCase with multiple games the number of this game.

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Member Function Documentation

void ideation.Game.addNewAgent

(

Agent

addi

)

This method should ONLY be called by the environment! It should always be invited computer players.

Parameters:

addi	the new agent.

Incentive ideation.Game.getIncentive

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)

Returns:

incentive

void ideation.Game.play

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)

The game is played, that means

• the agents make their choices ideation.Choice
• this has results ideation.Environment
• these results get recorded in the period and the agents data ideation.Period ideation.Agent
• the next period starts
• in the last period everything gets recorded and a summary ideation.GameSummary is created.

A central idea is that all information is redundantly recorded in the period it is connected to and in the agent it is connected to. This means that we have to be careful that both have the information they need recorded at all times, but saves huge amounts of iterations in the other classes and makes things more neat. The only place where it does not look neat is this method.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• Game.java