edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer
Class LocalEffectGame

java.lang.Object
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  +--edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.ParameterizedObject
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        +--edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.Game
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              +--edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.LocalEffectGame

Direct Known Subclasses:

RandomLEG

public abstract class LocalEffectGame

extends Game

Abstract class which can be used to implement any Local-Effect game. Can be extended in order generate bi-directional LEGs, Uniform LEGs, etc.

Field Summary

protected edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.graphs.ALGraph

graph

Fields inherited from class edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.Game

actions, DEFAULT_HIGH, DEFAULT_LOW, intMult, intPayoffs, players, pMaxPayoff, pMinPayoff, pNormalize, symActions

Fields inherited from class edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.ParameterizedObject

parameters

Constructor Summary

LocalEffectGame()
Constructor for a LEG.

Method Summary

double	getPayoff(int[] outcome, int player) Calculates the payoff for a player as the negation of the cost function for the action the player has chosen.
void	initialize() Sets the number of players based on the command line parameter.

Methods inherited from class edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.Game

generate, getAutoNormPayoff, getDescription, getGameHelp, getHelp, getName, getNormPayoff, getNumActions, getNumActions, getNumPlayers, getOutputPayoff, getOutputPayoff, getPayoff, getRangeHelp, parseActions, parsePlayersActions, parsePlayersSameNumberActions, parseSameNumberActions, setDescription, setName, setNormMinAndMax, setNumActions, setNumActions, setNumPlayers, writeGame

Methods inherited from class edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.ParameterizedObject

checkParameters, doGenerate, getBooleanParameter, getDoubleParameter, getLongParameter, getParamDescription, getParameter, getParameters, getStringParameter, randomizeParameters, setParameter, setParameter, setParameters, setParameters

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

graph

protected edu.stanford.multiagent.gamer.graphs.ALGraph graph

Constructor Detail

LocalEffectGame

public LocalEffectGame()
                throws java.lang.Exception

Constructor for a LEG.

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize()
                throws java.lang.Exception

Sets the number of players based on the command line parameter. Separate initializers should be used for setting up the necessary functions and graphs.

Overrides:

initialize in class Game

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

getPayoff

public double getPayoff(int[] outcome,
                        int player)

Calculates the payoff for a player as the negation of the cost function for the action the player has chosen.

Specified by:

getPayoff in class Game

Parameters:

outcome - an array holding the action choices of each player

player - the player whose payoff should be returned