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+## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2011 Luca Favatella <slackydeb@gmail.com>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## Author: Luca Favatella <slackydeb@gmail.com>
+## Version: 7.0
+
+function xoverKids = crossoverscattered (parents, options, nvars, FitnessFcn,
+ unused,
+ thisPopulation)
+
+ ## simplified example (nvars == 4)
+ ## p1 = [varA varB varC varD]
+ ## p2 = [var1 var2 var3 var4]
+ ## b = [1 1 0 1]
+ ## child = [varA varB var3 varD]
+ nc_parents = columns (parents);
+ n_children = nc_parents / 2;
+ p1(1:n_children, 1:nvars) = \
+ thisPopulation(parents(1, 1:n_children), 1:nvars);
+ p2(1:n_children, 1:nvars) = \
+ thisPopulation(parents(1, n_children + (1:n_children)), 1:nvars);
+ b(1:n_children, 1:nvars) = randi (1, n_children, nvars); ## TODO: test randi
+ xoverKids(1:n_children, 1:nvars) = \
+ b .* p1 + (ones (n_children, nvars) - b) .* p2;
+endfunction
+
+
+## number of input arguments
+# TODO
+
+## number of output arguments
+# TODO
+
+## type of arguments
+# TODO
+
+# TODO