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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

ExplanationOrderer

public class NullExplanationOrderer
extends java.lang.Object
implements ExplanationOrderer

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

An implementation of an explanation order, which doesn't really do any ordering!

Constructor Summary

NullExplanationOrderer()

Method Summary

ExplanationTree

getOrderedExplanation(OWLAxiom entailment, java.util.Set<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

Constructor Detail

NullExplanationOrderer

public NullExplanationOrderer()

Method Detail

getOrderedExplanation

public ExplanationTree getOrderedExplanation(OWLAxiom entailment,
                                             java.util.Set<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.