JMSD (CF4J 2.3.0 API Documentation)

java.lang.Object
- es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.recommender.knn.userSimilarityMetric.UserSimilarityMetric
- - es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.recommender.knn.userSimilarityMetric.JMSD

All Implemented Interfaces:

Partible<User>
```
public class JMSD
extends UserSimilarityMetric
```
Implements the following CF similarity metric: Bobadilla, J., Serradilla, F., & Bernal, J. (2010). A new collaborative filtering metric that improves the behavior of Recommender Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, 23 (6), 520-528.

Field Summary
- Fields inherited from class es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.recommender.knn.userSimilarityMetric.UserSimilarityMetric
  datamodel, similarities

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

JMSD()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`beforeRun()`	Is executed once before execute the method 'exec'.
`double`	`similarity(User user, User otherUser)`	This method must returns the similarity between two users.

Methods inherited from class es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.recommender.knn.userSimilarityMetric.UserSimilarityMetric
afterRun, getSimilarities, run, setDatamodel, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - JMSD
```
public JMSD()
```
- Method Detail
  - beforeRun
```
public void beforeRun()
```
    Description copied from interface: Partible
    
    Is executed once before execute the method 'exec'. It can be used to initialize resources.
    
    Specified by:
    
    beforeRun in interface Partible<User>
    
    Overrides:
    
    beforeRun in class UserSimilarityMetric
  - similarity
```
public double similarity(User user,
                         User otherUser)
```
    Description copied from class: UserSimilarityMetric
    
    This method must returns the similarity between two users.
    If two users do not have a similarity value, the method must return Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY.
    The value returned by this method should be higher the greater the similarity between users.
    
    Specified by:
    
    similarity in class UserSimilarityMetric
    
    Parameters:
    
    user - A user
    
    otherUser - Other user
    
    Returns:
    
    Similarity between user and otherUser