net.sourceforge.cilib.functions.clustering.clustercenterstrategies
Interface ClusterCenterStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClusterCentroidStrategy, ClusterMeanStrategy

public interface ClusterCenterStrategy
extends Serializable

A strategy to determine what is meant by the center of a cluster. Sometimes, cluster center refers to a cluster's centroid and other times it refers to a cluster's mean.

Author:

Theuns Cloete

Method Summary

Vector

getCenter(int i) Sub-classes should implement this method to return the desired center of cluster i.

Method Detail

getCenter

Vector getCenter(int i)

Sub-classes should implement this method to return the desired center of cluster i.

Parameters:

i - The integer representing the cluster for which a center should be returned

Returns:

a Vector representing the center of cluster i