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Thanks for the prompt response, will do as you suggest, that is dump the fitness and adopt a new one. Laurie -----Original Message----- From: ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sean Luke Sent: 12 June 2006 15:06 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Subpopulations with individual fitness Ah. The bleeding edge. Individuals do indeed hold onto their fitnesses: they're only assigned fitnesses when they are first created by their respective subpopulations. When an individual moves from one population to another -- using ec.exchange.InterPopulationExchange, for example, the fitness is retained because almost always such experiments presume that the subpopulations have just broken up the population into subchunks and thus all have the same fitness. I didn't include a hook for individuals to be told that they had just been exchanged to a new subpopulation or new computer etc. You'll have to hack ECJ for the moment to do such a thing. You can get a new fitness with subpop.f_prototype.clone(); and then you just set the individual's fitness to that. If you're doing ec.exchange.InterPopulationExchange, I'd override postBreedingExchange to go through the mailboxes for each subpopulation and replace the fitness of each individual appropriately, THEN call super.postBreedingExchange. You also want to set the evaluated flag in each such individual to false so it fills out its new fitness on the upcoming evaluation. If you want to somehow "transfer" the fitness from one form to another, you have to Think Deeply about what it means to do this first. But if you just want to dump the fitness and let the individual use a new one, that should do the trick. Sean On Jun 12, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Hirsch Laurence wrote: > I have been using subpopulations in ECJ 15 and it works very well. I > have recently been trying to make a modification such that the > subpopulations have different fitness measures specified in the > parameter file. Perhaps I have this wrong but it seems that when an > individual is transferred from one population it keeps its original > fitness measure whereas I would prefer if it would then adopt the > fitness measure of its new population. Is there a recommended way > to do > this? > > Thanks, > > Laurie Hirsch