How to sort a Matrix

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Atinesh Singh
Atinesh Singh on 27 Mar 2017
Answered: Andrei Bobrov on 27 Mar 2017
In below code we have a population 'P' of size 'NP' which has two fields 'Position' and 'Cost'. I need to sort the entire population 'P' with respect to field 'Cost' and select top p elements (say p = 4).
clc; clear all;
varMin = -5;
varMax = 5;
D = 3; % Dimension
VarSize = [1 D]; % Decision Variables Matrix Size
NP = 10; % Population size
empty_individual.Position = []; % Field 1
empty_individual.Cost = []; % Field 2
P = repmat(empty_individual, NP, 1); % Population
CostFunction = @(x) sphere(x);
%%Generating random population
for i = 1:NP
P(i).Position = unifrnd(varMin, varMax, VarSize);
P(i).Cost = CostFunction(P(i).Position);
end
% add Code here
sphere.m
function ret = sphere(x)
ret = sum(x.^2);
end

Accepted Answer

Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 27 Mar 2017
p = 4;
data = [P.Cost]';
[~,ii] = sort(data);
out = P(ii(1:p));

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