CredibilityCategorizer

java.lang.Object
- net.sf.tweety.beliefdynamics.mas.AbstractCredibilityComparer
- - net.sf.tweety.beliefdynamics.mas.CredibilityCategorizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Categorizer
```
public class CredibilityCategorizer
extends AbstractCredibilityComparer
implements Categorizer
```
This class implements a credibility-based categorizer that works like the classical categorizer but dismisses arguments where the least credible agent which uttered a formula in that argument is not as least as credible as the least credible agent which uttered a formula of the parent argument.

Author:

Matthias Thimm

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor	Description
`CredibilityCategorizer(java.util.Collection<InformationObject<PlFormula>> formulas, Order<Agent> credOrder)`	Creates a new credibility categorizer that is guided by the giving information which agents uttered the formulas and the credibility order.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type Method Description

double categorize(ArgumentTree argumentTree)
This method categorizes the given argument tree.
- Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
  equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - CredibilityCategorizer
```
public CredibilityCategorizer(java.util.Collection<InformationObject<PlFormula>> formulas,
                              Order<Agent> credOrder)
```
    Creates a new credibility categorizer that is guided by the giving information which agents uttered the formulas and the credibility order.
    
    Parameters:
    
    formulas - The information objects that hold the information which agents uttered the formulas.
    
    credOrder - The credibility order used to guide the categorizing.
- Method Detail
  - categorize
```
public double categorize(ArgumentTree argumentTree)
```
    Description copied from interface: Categorizer
    
    This method categorizes the given argument tree. In general, the semantics of this function is that a higher value of this categorization means a higher belief in the claim of the root argument of the argument tree.
    
    Specified by:
    
    categorize in interface Categorizer
    
    Parameters:
    
    argumentTree - some argument tree.
    
    Returns:
    
    the categorization of the argument tree.