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/*
 * (c) Copyright Christian P. Fries, Germany. Contact: [email protected].
 *
 * Created on 29.05.2015
 */

package net.finmath.optimizer;

/**
 * @author Christian Fries
 *
 */
public interface OptimizerInterface {

	public interface ObjectiveFunction {
		public void setValues(double[] parameters, double[] values) throws SolverException;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the best fit parameter vector.
	 * 
	 * @return The best fit parameter.
	 */
	double[] getBestFitParameters();

	/**
	 * @return the the root mean square error of achieved with the the best fit parameter
	 */
	double getRootMeanSquaredError();

	/**
	 * Get the number of iterations.
	 * 
	 * @return The number of iterations required
	 */
	int getIterations();

	/**
	 * Runs the optimization.
	 * 
	 * @throws SolverException Thrown if the valuation fails, specific cause may be available via the cause() method.
	 */
	void run() throws SolverException;

}