uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.explanation.ordering
Class AlphaExplanationOrderer

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.explanation.ordering.AlphaExplanationOrderer

All Implemented Interfaces:

ExplanationOrderer

public final class AlphaExplanationOrderer
extends Object
implements ExplanationOrderer

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 22-Jan-2008

Orders an explanation in a flat list, sorting axioms alphabetically.

Field Summary

protected org.semanticweb.owlapi.io.OWLObjectRenderer

renderer

Constructor Summary

AlphaExplanationOrderer(org.semanticweb.owlapi.io.OWLObjectRenderer renderer)

Method Summary

ExplanationTree

getOrderedExplanation(org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAxiom entailment, Set<org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAxiom> axioms) Gets an ordered (and possibly indented) explanation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

renderer

protected final org.semanticweb.owlapi.io.OWLObjectRenderer renderer

Constructor Detail

AlphaExplanationOrderer

public AlphaExplanationOrderer(org.semanticweb.owlapi.io.OWLObjectRenderer renderer)

Parameters:

renderer - the renderer to use

Method Detail

getOrderedExplanation

public ExplanationTree getOrderedExplanation(org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAxiom entailment,
                                             Set<org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAxiom> axioms)

Description copied from interface: ExplanationOrderer

Gets an ordered (and possibly indented) explanation. The orderer really provides some kind of "presentation" layer to make an explanation easier to read.

Specified by:

getOrderedExplanation in interface ExplanationOrderer

Parameters:

entailment - The axiom that represents the entailment that the explanation being ordered is a justification for.

axioms - The axioms that constitute the unordered explanation

Returns:

An order explanation.