Package es.uam.eps.ir.relison.diffusion.update

Class NewestUpdateMechanism

java.lang.Object

es.uam.eps.ir.relison.diffusion.update.NewestUpdateMechanism

All Implemented Interfaces:

UpdateMechanism

public class NewestUpdateMechanism
extends java.lang.Object
implements UpdateMechanism

Update mechanism for the information cascade model. As all selections are independent from the set of users, this just takes the newest information piece.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
NewestUpdateMechanism()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
PropagatedInformation	updateDiscarded(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)	Updates a piece of information which was previously discarded.
PropagatedInformation	updateSeen(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)	Updates a piece of information which has been newly seen.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

NewestUpdateMechanism

public NewestUpdateMechanism()

Method Details

updateSeen

public PropagatedInformation updateSeen(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)

Description copied from interface: UpdateMechanism

Updates a piece of information which has been newly seen.

Specified by:

updateSeen in interface UpdateMechanism

Parameters:

oldInfo - piece of information with old info.

newInfo - piece of information with new info.

Returns:

the updated piece of information.

updateDiscarded

public PropagatedInformation updateDiscarded(PropagatedInformation oldInfo, PropagatedInformation newInfo)

Description copied from interface: UpdateMechanism

Updates a piece of information which was previously discarded.

Specified by:

updateDiscarded in interface UpdateMechanism

Parameters:

oldInfo - piece of information with the discarded info.

newInfo - piece of information with the new info.

Returns:

the updated piece of information.