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#endregion

using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Encodings.RealVectorEncoding;

namespace HeuristicLab.Problems.TestFunctions.MultiObjective {
  /// <summary>
  /// An interface which represents an evaluation operator for multi objective test functions.
  /// </summary>
  public interface IConstrainedTestFunction : INamedItem {

    /// <summary>
    /// checks whether a given solution violates the contraints of this function  
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="point"></param>
    /// <param name="objectives"></param>
    /// <returns>a double array that holds the distances that describe how much every contraint is violated (0 is not violated) </returns>
    double[] CheckConstraints(RealVector point, int objectives);
  }
}