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package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;

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

/**
 * This interface is mainly intended to enforce the internal coherence of
 * Commons-FastMath. Users of the API are advised to base their code on
 * the following interfaces:
 * <ul>
 *  <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateOptimizer}</li>
 *  <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @param <FUNC> 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 BaseMultivariateSimpleBoundsOptimizer<FUNC extends MultivariateFunction>
    extends BaseMultivariateOptimizer<FUNC> {
    /**
     * Optimize an objective function.
     *
     * @param f Objective function.
     * @param goalType Type of optimization goal: either
     * {@link GoalType#MAXIMIZE} or {@link GoalType#MINIMIZE}.
     * @param startPoint Start point for optimization.
     * @param maxEval Maximum number of function evaluations.
     * @param lowerBound Lower bound for each of the parameters.
     * @param upperBound Upper bound for each of the parameters.
     * @return the point/value pair giving the optimal value for objective
     * function.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException
     * if the array sizes are wrong.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException
     * if the maximal number of evaluations is exceeded.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException if
     * {@code f}, {@code goalType} or {@code startPoint} is {@code null}.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NumberIsTooSmallException if any
     * of the initial values is less than its lower bound.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NumberIsTooLargeException if any
     * of the initial values is greater than its upper bound.
     */
    PointValuePair optimize(int maxEval, FUNC f, GoalType goalType,
                                double[] startPoint,
                                double[] lowerBound, double[] upperBound);
}