IUserAttributeAwareRecommender.java

// Copyright (C) 2010 Zeno Gantner, Andreas Hoffmann
// Copyright (C) 2011 Zeno Gantner
//
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package org.mymedialite;

import org.mymedialite.datatype.SparseBooleanMatrix;

/**
 * Interface for recommenders that take binary user attributes into account
 * 
 * @author Zeno Gantner, Andreas Hoffmann
 * @version 2.03
 */
public interface IUserAttributeAwareRecommender extends IRecommender {

  /**
	 * Getter for number of binary user attributes
	 */
	public int numUserAttributes();

	/**
	 * Getter for binary user attributes
	 */
	public SparseBooleanMatrix getUserAttributes();
	
	/**
	 * Setter for binary user attributes
	 */
	public void setUserAttributes(SparseBooleanMatrix s);

}