source: src/main/java/agents/anac/y2019/harddealer/math3/optimization/BaseOptimizer.java

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package agents.anac.y2019.harddealer.math3.optimization;

/**
 * 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:
 * <ul>
 *  <li>{@link agents.anac.y2019.harddealer.math3.optimization.MultivariateOptimizer}</li>
 *  <li>{@link agents.anac.y2019.harddealer.math3.optimization.MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer}</li>
 *  <li>{@link agents.anac.y2019.harddealer.math3.optimization.MultivariateDifferentiableVectorOptimizer}</li>
 *  <li>{@link agents.anac.y2019.harddealer.math3.optimization.univariate.UnivariateOptimizer}</li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @param <PAIR> Type of the point/objective pair.
 *
 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
 * @since 3.0
 */
@Deprecated
public interface BaseOptimizer<PAIR> {
    /**
     * Get the maximal number of function evaluations.
     *
     * @return the maximal number of function evaluations.
     */
    int getMaxEvaluations();

    /**
     * Get the number of evaluations of the objective function.
     * The number of evaluations corresponds to the last call to the
     * {@code optimize} method. It is 0 if the method has not been
     * called yet.
     *
     * @return the number of evaluations of the objective function.
     */
    int getEvaluations();

    /**
     * Get the convergence checker.
     *
     * @return the object used to check for convergence.
     */
    ConvergenceChecker<PAIR> getConvergenceChecker();
}