Cell aray genetic algorithm crossover question.

In the Demo, the following function is defined. Question: ALL parents are generated for crossover, before the call of this function?

function xoverKids  = crossover_permutation(parents,options,NVARS, ...
  FitnessFcn,thisScore,thisPopulation)
%   CROSSOVER_PERMUTATION Custom crossover function for traveling salesman.
%   XOVERKIDS = CROSSOVER_PERMUTATION(PARENTS,OPTIONS,NVARS, ...
%   FITNESSFCN,THISSCORE,THISPOPULATION) crossovers PARENTS to produce
%   the children XOVERKIDS.
%
%   The arguments to the function are 
%     PARENTS: Parents chosen by the selection function
%     OPTIONS: Options structure created from GAOPTIMSET
%     NVARS: Number of variables 
%     FITNESSFCN: Fitness function 
%     STATE: State structure used by the GA solver 
%     THISSCORE: Vector of scores of the current population 
%     THISPOPULATION: Matrix of individuals in the current population

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Yes, the parents are passed into this function as input. Is this what you are asking?