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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.differentiation;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateVectorFunction;
+import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException;
+
+
+/**
+ * Extension of {@link MultivariateVectorFunction} representing a
+ * multivariate differentiable vectorial function.
+ * @since 3.1
+ */
+public interface MultivariateDifferentiableVectorFunction
+    extends MultivariateVectorFunction {
+
+    /**
+     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
+     * @param point point at which the function must be evaluated
+     * @return function value for the given point
+     * @exception MathIllegalArgumentException if {@code point} does not
+     * satisfy the function's constraints (wrong dimension, argument out of bound,
+     * or unsupported derivative order for example)
+     */
+    DerivativeStructure[] value(DerivativeStructure[] point)
+        throws MathIllegalArgumentException;
+
+}