| 1 | #region License Information
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| 2 | /* HeuristicLab
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| 3 | * Copyright (C) 2002-2016 Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL)
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| 4 | *
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| 5 | * This file is part of HeuristicLab.
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| 6 | *
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| 7 | * HeuristicLab is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 8 | * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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| 9 | * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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| 10 | * (at your option) any later version.
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| 11 | *
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| 12 | * HeuristicLab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 13 | * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 14 | * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 15 | * GNU General Public License for more details.
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| 16 | *
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| 17 | * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 18 | * along with HeuristicLab. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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| 19 | */
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| 20 | #endregion
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| 21 |
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| 22 |
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| 23 | namespace HeuristicLab.Algorithms.DataAnalysis {
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| 24 | public interface IKernelFunction<in T> : ICovarianceFunction {
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| 25 | /// <summary>
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| 26 | /// Calculates a kernel measure between two aribitrary Vectors. The distance value d is
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| 27 | /// 1.) positive d(x,y)>0
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| 28 | /// 2.) symmetric d(x,y) = d(y,x)
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| 29 | /// 3.) only dependent on the norm ||x-y|| (Radial Basis criterium)
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| 30 | /// </summary>
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| 31 | /// <param name="a">an array representing point x</param>
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| 32 | /// <param name="b">>an array representing point y</param>
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| 33 | /// <returns>d(x,y)</returns>
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| 34 | double Get(T a, T b);
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| 35 | }
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| 36 | }
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