source: branches/MetisMQI/src/main/java/weka/associations/tertius/Body.java

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/*
 *    Body.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2003 Peter A. Flach, Nicolas Lachiche
 *
 *    Thanks to Amelie Deltour for porting the original C code to Java
 *    and integrating it into Weka.
 */

package weka.associations.tertius;

import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;

import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * Class representing the body of a rule.
 *
 * @author  <a href="mailto:adeltour@netcourrier.com">Amelie Deltour</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.6 $
 */

public class Body
  extends LiteralSet {
  
  /** for serialization */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 4870689270432218016L;

  /**
   * Constructor without storing the counter-instances.
   */
  public Body() {

    super();
  }

  /**
   * Constructor storing the counter-instances.
   *
   * @param instances The dataset.
   */
  public Body(Instances instances) {

    super(instances);
  }

  /**
   * Test if an instance can be kept as a counter-instance,
   * if a new literal is added to this body.
   *
   * @param instance The instance to test.
   * @param newLit The new literal.
   * @return True if the instance is still a counter-instance 
   * (if the new literal satisfies the instance).
   */
  public boolean canKeep(Instance instance, Literal newLit) {

    return newLit.satisfies(instance);
  }

  /**
   * Test if this Body is included in a rule.
   * It is the literals of this Body are contained in the body of the other rule,
   * or if their negation is included in the head of the other rule.
   */
  public boolean isIncludedIn(Rule otherRule) {

    Iterator iter = this.enumerateLiterals();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      Literal current = (Literal) iter.next();
      if (!otherRule.bodyContains(current)
          && !otherRule.headContains(current.getNegation())) {
        return false;
      }
    }
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Gives a String representation of this set of literals as a conjunction.
   */
  public String toString() {
    Iterator iter = this.enumerateLiterals();

    if (!iter.hasNext()) {
      return "TRUE";
    }
    StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      text.append(iter.next().toString());
      if (iter.hasNext()) {
        text.append(" and ");
      }
    }
    return text.toString();
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return            the revision
   */
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 1.6 $");
  }
}