de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.visualization

Class KNNExplorer<O extends NumberVector<?>,D extends NumberDistance<D,?>>

java.lang.Object

de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.AbstractApplication

de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.visualization.KNNExplorer<O,D>

Type Parameters:

O - Object type

D - Distance type

All Implemented Interfaces:

InspectionUtilFrequentlyScanned, Parameterizable

@Reference(authors="E. Achtert, T. Bernecker, H.-P. Kriegel, E. Schubert, A. Zimek",
           title="ELKI in Time: ELKI 0.2 for the Performance Evaluation of Distance Measures for Time Series",
           booktitle="Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009",
           url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02982-0_35")
public class KNNExplorer<O extends NumberVector<?>,D extends NumberDistance<D,?>>
extends AbstractApplication

User application to explore the k Nearest Neighbors for a given data set and distance function. When selecting one or more data entries, the nearest neighbors each are determined and visualized.

Reference:
Elke Achtert, Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Erich Schubert, Arthur Zimek:
ELKI in Time: ELKI 0.2 for the Performance Evaluation of Distance Measures for Time Series.
In Proc. 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2009), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009.

Usage example:

Main invocation:
java -cp elki.jar de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.visualization.KNNExplorer

The application supports the usual parameterization, in particular parameters -dbc.in and -explorer.distancefunction to select an input file and the distance function to explore.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
(package private) class	KNNExplorer.ExplorerWindow Main window of KNN Explorer.
static class	KNNExplorer.Parameterizer<O extends NumberVector<?>,D extends NumberDistance<D,?>> Parameterization class.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
private Database	database Holds the database connection to have the algorithm run with.
static OptionID	DISTANCE_FUNCTION_ID Parameter to specify the distance function to determine the distance between database objects, must extend DistanceFunction.
private DistanceFunction<O,D>	distanceFunction Holds the instance of the distance function specified by DISTANCE_FUNCTION_ID.

Fields inherited from class de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.AbstractApplication

INFORMATION

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
KNNExplorer(Database database, DistanceFunction<O,D> distanceFunction) Constructor.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(String[] args) Main method to run this application.
void	run() Runs the application.

Methods inherited from class de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.application.AbstractApplication

printErrorMessage, runCLIApplication, usage

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DISTANCE_FUNCTION_ID

public static final OptionID DISTANCE_FUNCTION_ID

Parameter to specify the distance function to determine the distance between database objects, must extend DistanceFunction.

Key: -explorer.distancefunction

Default value: EuclideanDistanceFunction

database

private Database database

Holds the database connection to have the algorithm run with.

distanceFunction

private DistanceFunction<O extends NumberVector<?>,D extends NumberDistance<D,?>> distanceFunction

Holds the instance of the distance function specified by DISTANCE_FUNCTION_ID.

Constructor Detail

KNNExplorer

public KNNExplorer(Database database,
           DistanceFunction<O,D> distanceFunction)

Constructor.

Parameters:

database - Database

distanceFunction - Distance function

Method Detail

run

public void run()
         throws IllegalStateException

Description copied from class: AbstractApplication

Runs the application.

Specified by:

run in class AbstractApplication

Throws:

IllegalStateException

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Main method to run this application.

Parameters:

args - the arguments to run this application