RecommendationMetric.java

/* 
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Information Retrieval Group at Universidad Autónoma
 * de Madrid, http://ir.ii.uam.es
 *
 * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
 */
package es.uam.eps.ir.ranksys.metrics;

import es.uam.eps.ir.ranksys.core.Recommendation;

/**
 * Recommendation metric: assigns a score for each recommendation list.
 *
 * @author Saúl Vargas (saul.vargas@uam.es)
 * @author Pablo Castells (pablo.castells@uam.es)
 * 
 * @param <U> type of the users
 * @param <I> type of the items
 */
public interface RecommendationMetric<U, I> {
    
    /**
     * Returns a score for the recommendation list.
     *
     * @param recommendation recommendation list
     * @return score of the metric to the recommendation
     */
    double evaluate(Recommendation<U, I> recommendation);
}