/** * Copyright (C) 2001-3, Anthony Harrison anh23@pitt.edu This library is free * software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU * Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; * either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more * details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ package org.jactr.core.module.retrieval.time; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; import org.jactr.core.chunk.IChunk; import org.jactr.core.logging.Logger; import org.jactr.core.module.retrieval.four.IRetrievalModule4; /** * 4.0 retrieval time equation * * @author harrison * @created April 18, 2003 */ public class DefaultRetrievalTimeEquation implements IRetrievalTimeEquation { private static transient Log LOGGER = LogFactory .getLog(DefaultRetrievalTimeEquation.class .getName()); IRetrievalModule4 _retrievalModule; IChunk _errorChunk; boolean _warned = false; public DefaultRetrievalTimeEquation(IRetrievalModule4 module) { _retrievalModule = module; } /** * Description of the Method * * @param model * Description of the Parameter * @param chunk * Description of the Parameter * @return Description of the Return Value */ public double computeRetrievalTime(IChunk chunk) { double latencyFactor = _retrievalModule.getLatencyFactor(); double latencyExponent = _retrievalModule.getLatencyExponent(); double threshold = _retrievalModule.getRetrievalThreshold(); double retrievalTime = 0; if (_errorChunk == null) _errorChunk = _retrievalModule.getModel().getDeclarativeModule() .getErrorChunk(); if (chunk.equals(_errorChunk)) { /* * if the retrieval threshold is inf, the time at which the retrieval will * fail will be inf as well, so we need to return something a little less * dangerous - so we use the error chunk activation to compute the * retrieval time. */ if (Double.isInfinite(threshold) || Double.isNaN(threshold)) { retrievalTime = latencyFactor * Math.exp(-_errorChunk.getSubsymbolicChunk().getActivation()); if (!_warned) { StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder( "since retrieval threshold is not active, retrieval errors can take an infinite time. Returning in "); msg.append(retrievalTime).append("s instead."); if (LOGGER.isWarnEnabled()) LOGGER.warn(msg); msg.insert(0, "Warning "); if (Logger.hasLoggers(_retrievalModule.getModel())) Logger.log(_retrievalModule.getModel(), Logger.Stream.RETRIEVAL, msg.toString()); _warned = true; } } else // otherwise, we fail using the normal math retrievalTime = latencyFactor * Math.exp(-threshold); } else { /* * everything is fine, calculate the retrieval time bsed on the chunks * activation */ double activation = chunk.getSubsymbolicChunk().getActivation(); retrievalTime = latencyFactor * Math.exp(-latencyExponent * activation); } return retrievalTime; } }