Package de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.base.impl.distance

Class ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator

java.lang.Object

de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.base.impl.distance.DistanceCalculator

de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.base.impl.distance.ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator

public class ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator
extends DistanceCalculator

The distance calculator used to calculate the distance between chronological objects.

Author:

Rainer Maximini, Justin Weich

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator(ChronologicClass dataClass)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static boolean	canCalculate(DataClass dataClass)
double	getDistance(DataObject queryObject, DataObject caseObject)
double	getMaxDistance()	The maximum distance between two chronological objects.

Methods inherited from class de.uni_trier.wi2.procake.similarity.base.impl.distance.DistanceCalculator

getDataClass, getDistanceCalculatorFor, setDataClass

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator

protected ChronologicIntervalDistanceCalculator(ChronologicClass dataClass)

Method Details

canCalculate

public static boolean canCalculate(DataClass dataClass)

getDistance

public double getDistance(DataObject queryObject,
 DataObject caseObject)

Specified by:

getDistance in class DistanceCalculator

getMaxDistance

public double getMaxDistance()

The maximum distance between two chronological objects. This corresponds to the value span of Long objects.

Specified by:

getMaxDistance in class DistanceCalculator

Returns:

The maximum distance.