costfunction.java

Apache的common math数学软件包

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package org.apache.commons.math.optimization;

/** 
 * This interface represents a cost function to be minimized.
 * @version $Revision: 620312 $ $Date: 2008-02-10 12:28:59 -0700 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) $
 * @since 1.2
 */
public interface CostFunction {


  /** 
   * Compute the cost associated to the given parameters array.
   * @param x parameters array
   * @return cost associated to the parameters array
   * @exception CostException if no cost can be computed for the parameters
   * @see PointCostPair
   */
  public double cost(double[] x) throws CostException;

}