com.planetj.taste.neighborhood
Interface UserNeighborhood

All Superinterfaces:

Refreshable

All Known Implementing Classes:

NearestNUserNeighborhood, ThresholdUserNeighborhood

public interface UserNeighborhood
extends Refreshable

Implementations of this interface compute a "neighborhood" of Users like a given User. This neighborhood can be used to compute recommendations then.

Author:

Sean Owen

Method Summary

java.util.Collection<User>

getUserNeighborhood(java.lang.Object userID)

Methods inherited from interface com.planetj.taste.common.Refreshable

refresh

Method Detail

getUserNeighborhood

@NotNull
java.util.Collection<User> getUserNeighborhood(java.lang.Object userID)
                                               throws TasteException

Parameters:

userID - ID of user for which a neighborhood will be computed

Returns:

Collection of Users in the neighborhood

Throws:

TasteException - if an error occurs while accessing data