Interface: HotspotIdentifier

Interface class: de.dfki.km.phaselib.impl.alignments.hotspot.HotspotIdentifier

The purpose of a HotspotIdentifier is the identification of hotspots ;-) More specifically, it is to find two classes that are a "sure match" , i.e. that are very likely to get aligned by an equality relation, and then wrap them into a simple Hotspot object.

The HotspotIdentifier should keep track of the hotspots already returned, since the main algorithm will not recognise redundantly returned hotspots and do unnecessary work. Furthermore, a sophisticated implementation should take into account the current situation (hotspots, sizes, coverage) when looking for new hotspots. For example, they tend to be in the vicinity of other (highly rated) ones.

Implementations