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package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;

import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateVectorFunction;

/**
 * This interface is mainly intended to enforce the internal coherence of
 * Commons-Math. Users of the API are advised to base their code on
 * the following interfaces:
 * 

 *  
{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.DifferentiableMultivariateVectorOptimizer}
 * 
 *
 * @param  Type of the objective function to be optimized.
 *
 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
 * @since 3.0
 */
@Deprecated
public interface BaseMultivariateVectorOptimizer
    extends BaseOptimizer {
    /**
     * Optimize an objective function.
     * Optimization is considered to be a weighted least-squares minimization.
     * The cost function to be minimized is
     * ∑weighti(objectivei - targeti)2
     *
     * @param f Objective function.
     * @param target Target value for the objective functions at optimum.
     * @param weight Weights for the least squares cost computation.
     * @param startPoint Start point for optimization.
     * @return the point/value pair giving the optimal value for objective
     * function.
     * @param maxEval Maximum number of function evaluations.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException
     * if the start point dimension is wrong.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException
     * if the maximal number of evaluations is exceeded.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException if
     * any argument is {@code null}.
     * @deprecated As of 3.1. In 4.0, this will be replaced by the declaration
     * corresponding to this {@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.direct.BaseAbstractMultivariateVectorOptimizer#optimize(int,MultivariateVectorFunction,OptimizationData[]) method}.
     */
    @Deprecated
    PointVectorValuePair optimize(int maxEval, FUNC f, double[] target,
                                     double[] weight, double[] startPoint);
}