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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;
019
020import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateFunction;
021
022/**
023 * This interface is mainly intended to enforce the internal coherence of
024 * Commons-FastMath. Users of the API are advised to base their code on
025 * the following interfaces:
026 * <ul>
027 *  <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateOptimizer}</li>
028 *  <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer}</li>
029 * </ul>
030 *
031 * @param <FUNC> Type of the objective function to be optimized.
032 *
033 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
034 * @since 3.0
035 */
036@Deprecated
037public interface BaseMultivariateOptimizer<FUNC extends MultivariateFunction>
038    extends BaseOptimizer<PointValuePair> {
039    /**
040     * Optimize an objective function.
041     *
042     * @param f Objective function.
043     * @param goalType Type of optimization goal: either
044     * {@link GoalType#MAXIMIZE} or {@link GoalType#MINIMIZE}.
045     * @param startPoint Start point for optimization.
046     * @param maxEval Maximum number of function evaluations.
047     * @return the point/value pair giving the optimal value for objective
048     * function.
049     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException
050     * if the start point dimension is wrong.
051     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException
052     * if the maximal number of evaluations is exceeded.
053     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException if
054     * any argument is {@code null}.
055     * @deprecated As of 3.1. In 4.0, it will be replaced by the declaration
056     * corresponding to this {@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.direct.BaseAbstractMultivariateOptimizer#optimize(int,MultivariateFunction,GoalType,OptimizationData[]) method}.
057     */
058    @Deprecated
059    PointValuePair optimize(int maxEval, FUNC f, GoalType goalType,
060                            double[] startPoint);
061}