miningstreamtransformer.java

一个数据挖掘软件ALPHAMINERR的整个过程的JAVA版源代码

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 /**
  * Title: XELOPES Data Mining Library
  * Description: The XELOPES library is an open platform-independent and data-source-independent library for Embedded Data Mining.
  * Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002 Prudential Systems Software GmbH
  * Company: ZSoft (www.zsoft.ru), Prudsys (www.prudsys.com)
  * @author Michael Thess
  * @version 1.0
  */
package com.prudsys.pdm.Transform;

import com.prudsys.pdm.Core.MiningException;
import com.prudsys.pdm.Input.MiningInputStream;

/**
 * An interface that defines general transformation of mining input streams.
 *
 * @see MiningInputStream
 */
public interface MiningStreamTransformer
{
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Transformation method
    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    /**
     * Transforms mining input stream into another one. The
     * targetStream must contain an updatable mining stream.
     *
     * @param sourceStream mining stream used as source of transformation
     * @param targetStream mining strem used as target of transformation
     * @return number of vectors of transformation
     * @exception MiningException could not transform mining input stream
     */
    public int transform( MiningInputStream sourceStream, MiningInputStream targetStream ) throws MiningException;

}