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Bradford N Barr <[log in to unmask]>
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ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit <[log in to unmask]>
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It isn't printing anything. I flushed the output, and even bracketed the 
else so it would include the print line, but still nothing.

Brad

Sean Luke wrote:
> Okay, so we're using individual genes.  This leaves only a few 
> possibilities:
>
> 1. Crossover is putting genes in the wrong places (unlikely).
> 2. Mutation is mutating genes to bad values (the code looks right).
> 3. Initialization is setting genes to bad values (again, the code 
> looks right).
> 4. the maxGene[x] value isn't being set right (most likely).
>
> Let's rule out the last one.
>
> In IntegerVectorSpecies, search for this line (sorry, email will break 
> this):
>
>                 else maxGenes[x] = 
> state.parameters.getLongWithDefault(base.push(P_MAXGENE).push(""+x),base.push(P_MAXGENE).push(""+x),maxGene); 
>
>
>
> Immediately after it, add the following line:
>
>         System.out.println("Gene: " + x + " Min: " + minGenes[x] + " 
> Max: " + maxGenes[x]);
>
> Recompile the file and re-run, and grep for "Gene".  Tell me what you 
> get.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Bradford N Barr wrote:
>
>> It prints "Used? true", along with my other output that tells me that 
>> my gene 5 is out of the bounds I set (it isn't just my 5th gene 
>> either 6 other genes are out of range too).
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>> Brad
>>
>> Sean Luke wrote:
>>> Rafal Kicinger donated a significant amount of vector min/max code 
>>> in the last iteration.  We may have a bug.  To start, go to 
>>> InterVectorSpecies.java and modify individualGeneMinMaxUsed() to 
>>> look like this please:
>>>
>>>     boolean flag = false;
>>>     public final boolean individualGeneMinMaxUsed()
>>>         {
>>>     if (!flag) System.out.println("Used?  " + (maxGenes != null) );
>>>     flag = true;
>>>         return (maxGenes!=null);
>>>         }
>>>
>>> This should print out (on the Used? line) whether or not we're doing 
>>> per-gene Min-Max.  Let me know what the result is.
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Bradford N Barr wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I've recently begun learning how to use ecj. I can competently use 
>>>> GP, and now I'm playing with some GA's. I'm having an issue with my 
>>>> GA's parameters. I assume it is something simple (like I have got 
>>>> the base wrong or something).
>>>>
>>>> I want some of my genes to be of different lengths, for 
>>>> IntegerVectorSpecies the class documentation says I can use 
>>>> base.min-gene.n for this purpose. I'm doing this but my genes are 
>>>> not getting their specific limit, only the overall limit.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to include my params file, its pretty small and straight 
>>>> forward. My gene 5 had a value 94 last run when its limit is 20.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>> parent.0 = /usr/share/ecj/ec/simple/simple.params
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.size = 50
>>>> generations = 100
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species = ec.vector.IntegerVectorSpecies
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.ind = ec.vector.IntegerVectorIndividual
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.fitness = ec.simple.SimpleFitness
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.genome-size = 14
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.crossover-type     = two
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.crossover-prob     = 1.0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.mutation-prob      = 0.05
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene = 100
>>>> # pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene = 0
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.0 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.1 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.1 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.1 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.2 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.2 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.3 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.3 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.4 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.4 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.5 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.5 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.6 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.6 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.7 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.7 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.8 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.8 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.9 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.9 = 10
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.10 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.10 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.11 = 1
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.11 = 20
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.12 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.12 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.13 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.13 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.14 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.14 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.15 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.15 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.16 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.16 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.17 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.17 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.18 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.18 = 100
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.min-gene.19 = 0
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.max-gene.19 = 100
>>>>
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe = ec.vector.breed.VectorMutationPipeline
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0 = 
>>>> ec.vector.breed.VectorCrossoverPipeline
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0 = 
>>>> ec.select.TournamentSelection
>>>> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.1 = 
>>>> ec.select.TournamentSelection
>>>>
>>>> select.tournament.size = 3
>>>>
>>>> eval.problem = fa.meta.MetaProblem

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