7 Conclusions

We demonstrate that an automatic search can be made for the astrophysical parameters of a synthetic stellar population from the analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams with an optimizer, based on a genetic algorithm. However, AMORE tends to slightly underestimate the distance. It subsequently attempts to compensate this with an higher extinction, a higher upper age and a slightly steeper slope for the power-law IMF. At f>0.3 the combined effect of the age-metallicity and the distance-extinction degeneracy slows down the convergence. The data suggests that AMORE has more problems dealing with the age-metallicity than with the distance-extinction degeneracy. For general purpose, however, the retrieved values are sufficiently accurate.