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AIMA-Java Core Algorithms from the book Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach 3rd Ed.
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package aima.core.search.framework.problem;
import aima.core.agent.Action;
/**
* Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach (3rd Edition): page 67.
*
* A description of what each action does; the formal name for this is the
* transition model, specified by a function RESULT(s, a) that returns the state
* that results from doing action a in state s. We also use the term successor
* to refer to any state reachable from a given state by a single action.
*
* @author Ravi Mohan
* @author Ciaran O'Reilly
*/
public interface ResultFunction {
/**
* Returns the state that results from doing action a in state s
*
* @param s
* a particular state.
* @param a
* an action to be performed in state s.
* @return the state that results from doing action a in state s.
*/
Object result(Object s, Action a);
}