Package com.evolveum.midpoint.model.impl.mining.algorithm.cluster.mechanism

Interface DistanceMeasure

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

JaccardDistancesMeasure

public interface DistanceMeasure
extends Serializable

A distance measure interface for calculating the similarity or distance between two sets of values. Implementations of this interface provide custom methods to compute the distance between two sets. The distance measure is used in clustering and similarity calculations for various data points.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	computeBalancedDistance(@NotNull Set<String> valueA, @NotNull Set<String> valueB)	Computes the distance or similarity between two sets of values.
double	computeMultiValueAttributes(@NotNull Set<String> valueA, @NotNull Set<String> valueB)
double	computeRuleDistance(@NotNull ExtensionProperties valueA, @NotNull ExtensionProperties valueB, @NotNull Set<ClusterExplanation> explanation)
double	computeSimpleDistance(@NotNull Set<String> valueA, @NotNull Set<String> valueB)

Method Details

computeBalancedDistance

double computeBalancedDistance(@NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueA,
 @NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueB)

Computes the distance or similarity between two sets of values.

Parameters:

valueA - The first set of values.

valueB - The second set of values.

Returns:

The computed distance or similarity between the sets.

computeMultiValueAttributes

double computeMultiValueAttributes(@NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueA,
 @NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueB)

computeRuleDistance

double computeRuleDistance(@NotNull
 @NotNull ExtensionProperties valueA,
 @NotNull
 @NotNull ExtensionProperties valueB,
 @NotNull
 @NotNull Set<ClusterExplanation> explanation)

computeSimpleDistance

double computeSimpleDistance(@NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueA,
 @NotNull
 @NotNull Set<String> valueB)