source: trunk/CrossPare/src/de/ugoe/cs/cpdp/eval/IEvaluationStrategy.java @ 16

package de.ugoe.cs.cpdp.eval;

import java.util.List;

import de.ugoe.cs.cpdp.IParameterizable;
import de.ugoe.cs.cpdp.training.ITrainer;

import weka.core.Instances;

/**
 * Interface for evaluation strategies to evaluate the performance of classifiers. 
 * @author Steffen Herbold
 */
public interface IEvaluationStrategy extends IParameterizable {

        /**
         * Applies the evaluation strategy. 
         * @param testdata test data for the evaluation
         * @param traindata training data used
         * @param trainers list of training algorithms used to train the classifiers
         * @param writeHeader if true, a header line for the results file is written (may not be applicable)
         */
        void apply(Instances testdata, Instances traindata, List<ITrainer> trainers, boolean writeHeader);
}