net.sourceforge.cilib.util
Interface DistanceMeasure

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbsoluteDistanceMeasure, ChebyshevDistanceMeasure, CosineDistanceMeasure, EuclideanDistanceMeasure, ManhattanDistanceMeasure, MinkowskiMetric

public interface DistanceMeasure

Definition of how to determine the distance between two objects.

Author:

Edwin Peer, Gary Pampara

Method Summary

<T extends Collection<? extends Number>> double	distance(T x, T y) Determine the distance between the two provided Collections.
<T extends Type,U extends StructuredType<T>> double	distance(U x, U y) Determine the distance between the two provided StructuredType instances.

Method Detail

distance

<T extends Type,U extends StructuredType<T>> double distance(U x,
                                                             U y)

Determine the distance between the two provided StructuredType instances.

Type Parameters:

T -

U -

Parameters:

x - The first object from which the calculation is to be performed.

y - The second object from which the calculation is to be performed.

Returns:

The distance between the provided instances.

distance

<T extends Collection<? extends Number>> double distance(T x,
                                                         T y)

Determine the distance between the two provided Collections.

Type Parameters:

T - The Collection type.

Parameters:

x - The first Collection.

y - The second Collection.

Returns:

The distance value.