org.decisiondeck.jmcda.structure.sorting.assignment.credibilities
Interface IOrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead

All Superinterfaces:

IAssignmentsToMultipleRead, IAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead, IOrderedAssignmentsToMultipleRead

All Known Subinterfaces:

IOrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilities

All Known Implementing Classes:

CowOrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilities, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilities, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesFiltering, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesFilteringOnCredibilities, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesForwarder, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesFromRead, OrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesViewFromMultiple

public interface IOrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead
extends IAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead, IOrderedAssignmentsToMultipleRead

Equivalent to IAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead to use when the categories the alternatives are assigned to are provided with a total ordering, thus can be sorted from worst to best without ex-æquo.

An assignments to multiple categories with credibilities object equals an other one iff they contain the same alternatives assigned to the same categories with the same credibilities and contain the same set of overall categories in the same order.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Indicates whether the given object is equal to this one.
NavigableMap<Category,Double>	getCredibilities(Alternative alternative) Retrieves a (possibly read-only) copy of the categories an alternative is assigned to together with their associated credibility degrees, ordered from the worst category to the best category the given alternative is assigned to.

Methods inherited from interface org.decisiondeck.jmcda.structure.sorting.assignment.IOrderedAssignmentsToMultipleRead

getCategories, getCategories

Methods inherited from interface org.decisiondeck.jmcda.structure.sorting.assignment.IAssignmentsToMultipleRead

getAlternatives, getAlternatives

Method Detail

getCredibilities

NavigableMap<Category,Double> getCredibilities(Alternative alternative)

Retrieves a (possibly read-only) copy of the categories an alternative is assigned to together with their associated credibility degrees, ordered from the worst category to the best category the given alternative is assigned to. That ordering relates to the preference order on the categories and not to the degrees of credibilities, i.e. it is usually not ordered by degree of credibility. The order is compatible with the ordering given by IAssignmentsToMultipleRead.getCategories().

Specified by:

getCredibilities in interface IAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead

Parameters:

alternative - not null.

Returns:

null iff the given alternative is not assigned, otherwise, a map containing at least one entry.

equals

boolean equals(Object obj)

Indicates whether the given object is equal to this one. This is true iff the given object is a IOrderedAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead, contains the same alternatives assigned to the same categories with the same credibilities, and contains the same set of overall categories as this object in the same order.

Specified by:

equals in interface IAssignmentsToMultipleRead

Specified by:

equals in interface IAssignmentsWithCredibilitiesRead

Specified by:

equals in interface IOrderedAssignmentsToMultipleRead

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

obj - may be null.

Returns:

true iff both objects are considered equal.