com.hammurapi.reasoning.spi
Interface Superseder

public interface Superseder

Fact which supersedes another fact. The superseding fact contains all the information which the superseded fact contains and can be used in place of the superseded fact. e.g. Male("John", "Smith") supersedes Person("John", "Smith") Facts can implement this interface or be converted/adapted to the interface.

Author:

Pavel Vlasov

Method Summary

boolean

supersedes(Object subFact)

Method Detail

supersedes

boolean supersedes(Object subFact)

Parameters:

subFact -

Returns:

true if this fact supersedes subFact and can replace the subFact in the knowledge base.