Troeps will search other objects similar to the one mentionned.
Similarity can be judged on the basis of the classes to which the object is attached (so objects attached to exactly the same classes will have maximum similarity). It can be also judged on the field values (in which case objects with exactly the same field values will have the maximum similarity).
In both cases, it is necessary to weight the relative importance of the viewpoints (resp. fields) in the computed similarity. This is the role of the input to be given to the method. Each rank must be a float value between 0. and 1. and ideally, their sum must be 1..
The results are provided exhaustively, the more similar first. The computed similarity value depends on the weights and is normalised by the maximum disimillarity (i.e. 1- minimum similarity) found in the sample on each dimension.