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from Hypervolume Indicator by Yi Cao
A tool to estimate the hypervolume indicator

v=hypervolume(P,r,N)
function v=hypervolume(P,r,N)
% HYPERVOUME    Hypervolume indicator as a measure of Pareto front estimate.
%   V = HYPERVOLUME(P,R,N) returns an estimation of the hypervoulme (in
%   percentage) dominated by the approximated Pareto front set P (n by d)
%   and bounded by the reference point R (1 by d). The estimation is doen
%   through N (default is 1000) uniformly distributed random points within
%   the bounded hyper-cuboid.  
%
%   V = HYPERVOLUMN(P,R,C) uses the test points specified in C (N by d).
%
% See also: paretofront, paretoGroup

% Version 1.0 by Yi Cao at Cranfield University on 20 April 2008

% Example
%{
% an random exmaple
F=(randn(100,3)+5).^2;
% upper bound of the data set
r=max(F);
% Approximation of Pareto set
P=paretofront(F);
% Hypervolume
v=hypervolume(F(P,:),r,100000);
%}

% Check input and output
error(nargchk(2,3,nargin));
error(nargoutchk(0,1,nargout));

P=P*diag(1./r);
[n,d]=size(P);
if nargin<3
    N=1000;
end
if ~isscalar(N)
    C=N;
    N=size(C,1);
else
    C=rand(N,d);
end

fDominated=false(N,1);
lB=min(P);
fcheck=all(bsxfun(@gt, C, lB),2);

for k=1:n
    if any(fcheck)
        f=all(bsxfun(@gt, C(fcheck,:), P(k,:)),2);
        fDominated(fcheck)=f;
        fcheck(fcheck)=~f;
    end
end

v=sum(fDominated)/N;

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