package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.math.dimensionsimilarity;
/*
This file is part of ELKI:
Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures
Copyright (C) 2015
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme
ELKI Development Team
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import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.database.ids.DBIDs;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.database.relation.Relation;
/**
* Interface for computing pairwise dimension similarities, used for arranging
* dimensions in parallel coordinate plots.
*
* @author Erich Schubert
* @since 0.5.5
*
* @apiviz.uses DimensionSimilarityMatrix - - «writes»
*
* @param Object type
*/
public interface DimensionSimilarity {
/**
* Compute the dimension similarity matrix
*
* @param relation Relation
* @param subset DBID subset (for sampling / selection)
* @param matrix Matrix to fill
*/
public void computeDimensionSimilarites(Relation extends V> relation, DBIDs subset, DimensionSimilarityMatrix matrix);
}