2 * Copyright (c) 2003, the JUNG Project and the Regents of the University
6 * This software is open-source under the BSD license; see either
8 * http://jung.sourceforge.net/license.txt for a description.
10 package edu.uci.ics.jung.algorithms.generators;
15 * An interface for algorithms that generate graphs that evolve iteratively.
18 public interface EvolvingGraphGenerator<V, E> extends GraphGenerator<V,E> {
21 * Instructs the algorithm to evolve the graph N steps.
22 * @param numSteps number of steps to iterate from the current state
24 void evolveGraph(int numSteps);
27 * Retrieves the total number of steps elapsed.
28 * @return number of elapsed steps