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/*
 *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */

/*
 *    PartitionGenerator.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2012 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */
package weka.core;

/**
 * This interface can be implemented by algorithms that generate
 * a partition of the instance space (e.g., decision trees).
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public interface PartitionGenerator extends CapabilitiesHandler {

    /**
     * Builds the classifier to generate a partition.
     */
    public void generatePartition(Instances data) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Computes an array that has a value for each element in the partition.
     */
    public double[] getMembershipValues(Instance inst) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Returns the number of elements in the partition.
     */
    public int numElements() throws Exception;
}