clusterer.java

wekaUT是 university texas austin 开发的基于weka的半指导学习(semi supervised learning)的分类器

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/*
 *    Clusterer.java
 *    Copyright (C) 1999 Mark Hall
 *
 */

package weka.clusterers;

import java.io.Serializable;
import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.SerializedObject;
import weka.core.Utils;


/** 
 * Abstract clusterer.
 *
 * @author Mark Hall ([e-mail])
 * @version $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
 */
public abstract class Clusterer implements Cloneable, Serializable {

  // ===============
  // Public methods.
  // ===============
 
  /**
   * Generates a clusterer. Has to initialize all fields of the clusterer
   * that are not being set via options.
   *
   * @param data set of instances serving as training data 
   * @exception Exception if the clusterer has not been 
   * generated successfully
   */
  public abstract void buildClusterer(Instances data) throws Exception;

  /**
   * Classifies a given instance.
   *
   * @param instance the instance to be assigned to a cluster
   * @return the number of the assigned cluster as an interger
   * if the class is enumerated, otherwise the predicted value
   * @exception Exception if instance could not be classified
   * successfully
   */
  public abstract int clusterInstance(Instance instance) throws Exception; 

  /**
   * Returns the number of clusters.
   *
   * @return the number of clusters generated for a training dataset.
   * @exception Exception if number of clusters could not be returned
   * successfully
   */
  public abstract int numberOfClusters() throws Exception;

  /**
   * Creates a new instance of a clusterer given it's class name and
   * (optional) arguments to pass to it's setOptions method. If the
   * clusterer implements OptionHandler and the options parameter is
   * non-null, the clusterer will have it's options set.
   *
   * @param searchName the fully qualified class name of the clusterer
   * @param options an array of options suitable for passing to setOptions. May
   * be null.
   * @return the newly created search object, ready for use.
   * @exception Exception if the clusterer class name is invalid, or the 
   * options supplied are not acceptable to the clusterer.
   */
  public static Clusterer forName(String clustererName,
				  String [] options) throws Exception {
    return (Clusterer)Utils.forName(Clusterer.class,
				    clustererName,
				    options);
  }

  /**
   * Creates copies of the current clusterer. Note that this method
   * now uses Serialization to perform a deep copy, so the Clusterer
   * object must be fully Serializable. Any currently built model will
   * now be copied as well.
   *
   * @param model an example clusterer to copy
   * @param num the number of clusterer copies to create.
   * @return an array of clusterers.
   * @exception Exception if an error occurs 
   */
  public static Clusterer [] makeCopies(Clusterer model,
					int num) throws Exception {
     if (model == null) {
      throw new Exception("No model clusterer set");
    }
    Clusterer [] clusterers = new Clusterer [num];
    SerializedObject so = new SerializedObject(model);
    for(int i = 0; i < clusterers.length; i++) {
      clusterers[i] = (Clusterer) so.getObject();
    }
    return clusterers;
  }
}