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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;
019
020import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateFunction;
021import org.apache.commons.math3.random.RandomVectorGenerator;
022
023/**
024 * Special implementation of the {@link MultivariateOptimizer} interface adding
025 * multi-start features to an existing optimizer.
026 *
027 * This class wraps a classical optimizer to use it several times in
028 * turn with different starting points in order to avoid being trapped
029 * into a local extremum when looking for a global one.
030 *
031 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
032 * @since 2.0
033 */
034@Deprecated
035public class MultivariateMultiStartOptimizer
036    extends BaseMultivariateMultiStartOptimizer<MultivariateFunction>
037    implements MultivariateOptimizer {
038    /**
039     * Create a multi-start optimizer from a single-start optimizer.
040     *
041     * @param optimizer Single-start optimizer to wrap.
042     * @param starts Number of starts to perform (including the
043     * first one), multi-start is disabled if value is less than or
044     * equal to 1.
045     * @param generator Random vector generator to use for restarts.
046     */
047    public MultivariateMultiStartOptimizer(final MultivariateOptimizer optimizer,
048                                               final int starts,
049                                               final RandomVectorGenerator generator) {
050        super(optimizer, starts, generator);
051    }
052}