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  NEUROPH - JAVA NEURAL NETWORK FRAMEWORK
  http://neuroph.sourceforge.net

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This is the release 2.4 of the Java Neural Network Framework Neuroph. 


CONTENTS

This release package full NetBEans project trees for Neuroph library and easyNeurons neural network GUI editor. 
See FILELIST.txt for details.


CHANGES

This release brings many improvments in api and gui, but the most important ones are several backpropagation improvements which makes learning much faster. 
These include: linear transfer functions in input layer, addition of bias neuron for each layer, min error stopping condition, dynamic learning rate and momentum.
Also there are some sample OCR tools, stock prediction samples, learning vizualisation samples for perceptron and multi layer perceptron.
See CHANGELOG.txt for details.


LICENSE CHANGE

Important change is also license change - we switched from LGPL 3.0 to Apache 2.0 license.
In short that means that software is still free and open source (and allways will be), and in addition to that new license provides more freedom to commercial users.
We hope that license change will help the project to grow, copperate with other projects and get broader adoption among nonprofit and commercial users.
For more info about license change see discussion
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/neuroph/forums/forum/862857/topic/3675039See  


DEVELOPMENT

NetBeans 6.8 is preffered tool for GUI development. It is available for download at  http://netbeans.org/downloads/

See developer guidelines at 
http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/developer_guidelines.html

All libraries required by easyNeurons are provided in /easyneurons/lib folder.


MORE HELP

For more help see: 
- Help system in easyNeurons
- Online documentation at http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
- Materials at /docs folder in this package (contains javadoc API, UML diagrams and introductory tutorial)
- Neuroph forums http://sourceforge.net/projects/neuroph/forums




Enjoy the Neuroph!
The Neuroph Team