RestartSchedule (Chips-n-Salsa - A Java library of customizable, hybridizable, iterative, parallel, stochastic, and self-adaptive local search algorithms)

All Superinterfaces:

Splittable<RestartSchedule>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConstantRestartSchedule, LubyRestarts, ParallelVariableAnnealingLength, VariableAnnealingLength
```
public interface RestartSchedule
extends Splittable<RestartSchedule>
```
Multistart metaheuristics involve periodically restarting the metaheuristic from a new initial starting solution (often random). Although it is common for such restarts to have a common run length, there do exist other restart schedules that vary the run length from one run to the next in some way. This interface defines the functionality of a restart schedule.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`nextRunLength()`	Gets the next run length in the restart schedule's sequence of run lengths.
`void`	`reset()`	Resets the restart schedule to its initial conditions, such that the next call to `nextRunLength()` will return the initial run length of the schedule.

Methods inherited from interface org.cicirello.search.concurrent.Splittable
split

- Method Detail
  - nextRunLength
```
int nextRunLength()
```
    Gets the next run length in the restart schedule's sequence of run lengths.
    
    Returns:
    
    the length for the next run of a multistart metaheuristic
  - reset
```
void reset()
```
    Resets the restart schedule to its initial conditions, such that the next call to nextRunLength() will return the initial run length of the schedule.