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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner;

/** Author: Matthew Horridge

 * The University of Manchester

 * Information Management Group

 * Date: 21-Jan-2009
 * 
 * An OWLReasonerConfiguration can be used to customise the setup of a reasoner
 * at reasoner creation time via an
 * {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.OWLReasonerFactory}. Specific
 * reasoners may define their own configuration objects with configuration
 * options particular to the reasoner. There are also a set of general options
 * defined by this configuration object.
 * 
 * Note that once a reasoner has been created, changing fields (via setter
 * methods or directly) on the configuration object will have no effect.
 * 
 * @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.OWLReasonerFactory
 * @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.SimpleConfiguration */
public interface OWLReasonerConfiguration {

    /**
     * Gets a progress monitor that the reasoner may update with information about the progress of its reasoning
     * process.
     * @return A progress monitor.  By default this returns {@link NullReasonerProgressMonitor}
     */
    ReasonerProgressMonitor getProgressMonitor();

    /**
     * Gets the timeout in milliseconds for basic single reasoner operations (satisfiability check time out).  If the
     * value is equal to {@link Long#MAX_VALUE} then this means that the reasoner should never time out.
     * 
     * The reasoner will monitor the elapsed time during a satisfiability check (attempt to build a model for example)
     * and if the elapsed time exceeds the timeout then it will abort the test as soon as possible and terminate
     * all reasoning.  A {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.TimeOutException} will be thrown in the thread that
     * invoked the last reasoner operation.
     * 
     * Note that this is not a timeout for method calls such as "getSubClasses", which may involve many satisfiability
     * (or other basic reasoning task) checks, the sum of which may well exceed the timeout.
     * @return The time out in milliseconds.  By default this is set
     * to the value of {@link Long#MAX_VALUE}, which means the reasoner SHOULD NOT timeout.
     */
    long getTimeOut();

    /**
     * Gets the fresh entity policy that should be used.  By default this is set to
     * {@link FreshEntityPolicy#ALLOW}.
     * @return The fresh entity policy.
     */
    FreshEntityPolicy getFreshEntityPolicy();

    /**
     * Gets the {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.IndividualNodeSetPolicy} which determines how NodeSets
     * of named individuals are returned from the reasoner.
     * @return The IndividualNodeSetPolicy that should be used.  By default the policy is
     * {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.IndividualNodeSetPolicy#BY_NAME} i.e. by default individuals that are
     * the same as each other are not grouped into the same node within a node set.
     */
    IndividualNodeSetPolicy getIndividualNodeSetPolicy();


}