Hi Robert, we're not actively avoiding you!  :-)  I'm in Kyoto on  
very limited bandwidth, and Liviu's working on his dissertation  
(which he's defending in a few days).  Liviu's the man you want to  
have look into this anyway -- he wrote the coevolution code and knows  
it better than I do.  Give him a little while though!  :-)

Sean

On Aug 23, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Robert Baruch wrote:

> OK, I see the problem. It was based on a misunderstanding of the  
> GroupedProblemForm.evaluate
> parameters. I thought that the ind[] array would have ind[0] the  
> individual under evaluation, and ind
> [1] the opponent. That's how it was when I only had one  
> subpopulation and was running the
> CompetitiveEvaluator.
>
> I switched to MultiPopCoevoluationaryEvaluator, figuring it would  
> do the same thing, but it doesn't.
> Apparently the ind[] array is the size of the number of subpops,  
> and the update[] element that's true
> is the individual under evaluation.
>
> Now the only problem is that it seems that ind[0] is always an  
> individual from subpop 0, ind[1] is an
> individual from subpop 1, and ind[2] is one from subpop 2. What I  
> really wanted was to choose a
> random individual from a random subpop (not in my own subpop).
>
> I guess that means that in my GPProblem's evaluate method, I will  
> have to randomly choose one of
> the non-updated ind's.
>
> It would be nice to be able to choose the number of opponents in  
> the parameters for
> MultiPopCoevolutionaryEvaluator...
>
> --Rob