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+package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities;
+
+/*
+ This file is part of ELKI:
+ Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures
+
+ Copyright (C) 2013
+ 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.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * This interface defines alias names for classes.
+ * 
+ * @author Erich Schubert
+ */
+@Documented
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target({ ElementType.TYPE })
+public @interface Alias {
+  /**
+   * Alias names of the class.
+   * 
+   * @return Array of alias names
+   */
+  String[] value();
+}