Core.CBR.Distances.Locals

Class LocalDistanceHamming

java.lang.Object

Core.CBR.Distances.Locals.LocalDistance

Core.CBR.Distances.Locals.LocalDistanceHamming

public class LocalDistanceHamming
extends LocalDistance

Specific implementation of LocalDistance

See Also:

LocalDistance

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
LocalDistanceHamming()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
float	distance(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b) Computes the hamming distance between 'a' and 'b'.

Methods inherited from class Core.CBR.Distances.Locals.LocalDistance

computeDistance, setMissingMethod

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LocalDistanceHamming

public LocalDistanceHamming()

Method Detail

distance

public float distance(java.lang.Object a,
             java.lang.Object b)

Computes the hamming distance between 'a' and 'b'. Given two objects 'a' and 'b', the distance is computed as the sum of the differences in characters at every position of the objects.

Specified by:

distance in class LocalDistance

Parameters:

a - Object.

b - Object.

Returns:

char to char Distance between 'a' and 'b'.