de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.index

Interface SimilarityRangeIndex<O>

Type Parameters:

O - Database Object type

All Superinterfaces:

Index, Result

All Known Implementing Classes:

PrecomputedSimilarityMatrix

public interface SimilarityRangeIndex<O>
extends Index

Index with support for similarity range queries.

Since:

0.4.0

Author:

Erich Schubert

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
RangeQuery<O>	getSimilarityRangeQuery(SimilarityQuery<O> simQuery, java.lang.Object... hints) Get a range query object for the given distance query and k.

Methods inherited from interface de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.index.Index

initialize, logStatistics

Methods inherited from interface de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.result.Result

getLongName, getShortName

Method Detail

getSimilarityRangeQuery

RangeQuery<O> getSimilarityRangeQuery(SimilarityQuery<O> simQuery,
                                      java.lang.Object... hints)

Get a range query object for the given distance query and k. This function MAY return null, when the given distance is not supported!

Parameters:

simQuery - Similarity query

hints - Hints for the optimizer

Returns:

KNN Query object or null