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+package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.index.tree.spatial.rstarvariants.strategies.bulk;
+
+/*
+ This file is part of ELKI:
+ Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures
+
+ Copyright (C) 2012
+ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
+ Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme
+ ELKI Development Team
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.spatial.SpatialComparable;
+import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.optionhandling.Parameterizable;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for a bulk split strategy.
+ * 
+ * @author Erich Schubert
+ */
+public interface BulkSplit extends Parameterizable {
+  /**
+   * Partitions the specified feature vectors
+   * 
+   * @param <T> actual type we split
+   * @param spatialObjects the spatial objects to be partitioned
+   * @param minEntries the minimum number of entries in a partition
+   * @param maxEntries the maximum number of entries in a partition
+   * @return the partition of the specified spatial objects
+   */
+  public <T extends SpatialComparable> List<List<T>> partition(List<T> spatialObjects, int minEntries, int maxEntries);
+}
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