com.planetj.taste.recommender
Interface ClusteringRecommender

All Superinterfaces:

Recommender, Refreshable

All Known Implementing Classes:

TreeClusteringRecommender, TreeClusteringRecommender2

public interface ClusteringRecommender
extends Recommender

Interface implemented by "clustering" recommenders.

Since:

1.1

Author:

Sean Owen

Method Summary

java.util.Collection<User>	getCluster(java.lang.Object userID) Returns the cluster of users to which the given User, denoted by user ID, belongs.
java.util.Collection<java.util.Collection<User>>	getClusters() Returns all clusters of users.

Methods inherited from interface com.planetj.taste.recommender.Recommender

estimatePreference, getDataModel, recommend, recommend, removePreference, setPreference

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

refresh

Method Detail

getCluster

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

Returns the cluster of users to which the given User, denoted by user ID, belongs.

Parameters:

userID - user ID for which to find a cluster

Returns:

Collection of Users in the requested user's cluster

Throws:

TasteException - if an error occurs while accessing the DataModel

Since:

1.1.1

getClusters

@NotNull
java.util.Collection<java.util.Collection<User>> getClusters()
                                                             throws TasteException

Returns all clusters of users.

Returns:

Collection of Collections of Users

Throws:

TasteException - if an error occurs while accessing the DataModel

Since:

1.7