net.sourceforge.cilib.problem
Interface GradientOptimisationProblem

All Known Implementing Classes:

GradientFunctionMinimisationProblem

public interface GradientOptimisationProblem

Optimisation problems that are able to provide gradient information should implement this interface. Some optimisation algorithms are able to exploit this information.

This interface only applies to continuous valued problems.

Author:

Edwin Peer

Method Summary

Vector

getGradient(Vector position) Returns the gradient of the optimisation problem at the given position.

Method Detail

getGradient

Vector getGradient(Vector position)

Returns the gradient of the optimisation problem at the given position.

Parameters:

position - the position.

Returns:

the gradient at position.