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package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.neighborhood;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.Refreshable;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.TasteException;
/**
*
* Implementations of this interface compute a "neighborhood" of users like a given user. This neighborhood
* can be used to compute recommendations then.
*
*/
public interface UserNeighborhood extends Refreshable {
/**
* @param userID
* ID of user for which a neighborhood will be computed
* @return IDs of users in the neighborhood
* @throws TasteException
* if an error occurs while accessing data
*/
long[] getUserNeighborhood(long userID) throws TasteException;
}