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Interface ObjectiveFunction

All Known Implementing Classes:

InverseObjectiveFunction

public interface ObjectiveFunction

This interface must be implemented by all the classes that encapsulate a function that is to be minimized

Since:

October 29, 2001

Author:

Charles Mégnin, Řyvind Harboe

Method Summary

double	distance(double[] params)
int	getNdim() Returns the number of dimensions for the objective function implemented

Method Detail

getNdim

public int getNdim()

Returns the number of dimensions for the objective function implemented

Returns:

The Ndim value

distance

public double distance(double[] params)

Parameters:

params - arguments to distance function

Returns:

Calculates distance. The tolerance/spread refers to the return value from this function.