/**
 *   
 *   AgentAcademy - an open source Data Mining framework for
 *   training intelligent agents
 *
 *   Copyright (C)   2001-2003 AA Consortium.
 *
 *   This library is open source software; you can redistribute it 
 *   and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General 
 *   Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;   
 *   either version 2.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later 
 *   version.
 *
 *   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the    
 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *   License along with this library; if not, write to the Free 
 *   Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 
 *   MA  02111-1307 USA
 * 
 */

package org.agentacademy.modules.dataminer.classifiers;

/**
 * <p>Title: The Data Miner prototype</p>
 * <p>Description: A prototype for the DataMiner (DM), the Agent Academy (AA) module responsible for performing data mining on the contents of the Agent Use Repository (AUR). The extracted knowledge is to be sent back to the AUR in the form of a PMML document.</p>
 * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002</p>
 * <p>Company: CERTH</p>
 * @author asymeon
 * @version 0.3
 */

public interface Sourcable {

  /**
   * Returns a string that describes the classifier as source. The
   * classifier will be contained in a class with the given name (there may
   * be auxiliary classes),
   * and will contain a method with the signature:
   * <pre><code>
   * public static double classify(Object [] i);
   * </code></pre>
   * where the array <code>i</code> contains elements that are either
   * Double, String, with missing values represented as null. The generated
   * code is public domain and comes with no warranty.
   *
   * @param className the name that should be given to the source class.
   * @return the object source described by a string
   * @exception Exception if the souce can't be computed
   */
  String toSource(String className) throws Exception;
}