Repository /Rseslib/rseslib-3.0.2.jar:rseslib.structure.rule.PartialMatchingRule

/*
 * $RCSfile: PartialMatchingRule.java,v $
 * $Revision: 1.4 $
 * $Date: 2007/08/03 13:40:35 $
 * $Author: wojna $
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package rseslib.structure.rule;

import rseslib.structure.data.DoubleData;

/**
 * Interface for a rule with partial matching.
 * 
 * @author Rafal Latkowski
 */
public interface PartialMatchingRule
{
    /**
     * Defines how this rule and a given object match.
     *
     * @param dObj Double data to be matched.
     * @return     The value between 0 and 1.
     *             The values near 1 means that
     *             the object dObj matches this rule quite well.
     */
    public abstract double matchesPartial(DoubleData dObj);
}