/// <summary>
/// Determines the MCC maze navigation experiment to run based on the given search and selection algorithm.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="searchAlgorithmName">The search algorithm to run.</param>
/// <param name="selectionAlgorithmName">The selection algorithm to run.</param>
/// <returns>The applicable MCC maze navigation experiment.</returns>
private static BaseMCCMazeNavigationExperiment DetermineMCCMazeNavigationExperiment(
string searchAlgorithmName, string selectionAlgorithmName)
{
// Extract the corresponding search and selection algorithm domain types
var searchType = AlgorithmTypeUtil.ConvertStringToSearchType(searchAlgorithmName);
var selectionType = AlgorithmTypeUtil.ConvertStringToSelectionType(selectionAlgorithmName);
// Queueing MCC experiment with separate (currently per-species) queues
if (SelectionType.MultipleQueueing.Equals(selectionType))
{
return(new MCCSpeciationExperiment());
}
// Otherwise, go with the single maze, single queue MCC experiment
return(new MCCControlExperiment());
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines which MCC initializer to instantiate and return based on the initialization algorithm search
/// type.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xmlConfig">XML initialization configuration.</param>
/// <returns>The instantiated initializer.</returns>
public static MCCMazeNavigationInitializer DetermineMCCInitializer(XmlElement xmlConfig)
{
// Make sure that the XML configuration exists
if (xmlConfig == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Missing or invalid MCC initialization configuration.");
}
// Extract the corresponding search and selection algorithm domain types
var searchType =
AlgorithmTypeUtil.ConvertStringToSearchType(XmlUtils.TryGetValueAsString(xmlConfig, "SearchAlgorithm"));
// There's currently just two MCC initializers: fitness and novelty search
switch (searchType)
{
case SearchType.Fitness:
return(new FitnessMCCMazeNavigationInitializer());
default:
return(new NoveltySearchMCCMazeNavigationInitializer());
}
}
