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From: Robert Baruch <[log in to unmask]>

> Hi Liviu,
>
> Good luck on your defense! I would very much appreciate seeing your
> work on coevolution. My particular application is evolving players
> for the card game Mille Bornes. At first I worked with one subpop,
> but of course that didn't really work because the system would simply
> get stuck in a local minimum where it would win against itself half
> the time. Sure it solved the problem, but it wasn't quite what I was
> looking for.
>
> So instead I'm working with eight subpops, hoping that each will
> develop a different strategy to defend against the other seven. We'll
> see what happens :)
>
> Thanks for the references -- I'll definitely check them out.
>
&g t; Yours,
>
> --Rob