Licensing and Acknowledgements

License Agreement

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Acknowledgments

JavaNNS is a joint effort of a large number of people, computer science students, research assistants as well as faculty members at the Institute for Parallel and Distributed High Performance Systems (IPVR) at University of Stuttgart, the Wilhelm Schickard Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen, and the European Particle Research Lab CERN in Geneva.

The project to develop an efficient and portable neural network simulator which later became SNNS was lead since 1989 by Dr. Andreas Zell, who designed SNNS and acted as advisor for more than two dozen independent research and Master's thesis projects that made up SNNS, JavaNNS and some of its applications. Over time the source grew to a total size of now 5MB in 160.000+ lines of code. Research began under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Reuter and Prof. Dr. Paul Levi. We are grateful for their support and for providing us with the necessary computer and network equipment.

The following persons were directly involved in the SNNS project. They are listed in the order in which they joined the SNNS team.

SNNS and JavaNNS project members

Andreas Zell	Design of the SNNS simulator, SNNS project team leader.
Niels Mache	SNNS simulator kernel (really the heart of SNNS), parallel SNNS kernel on MasPar MP-1216.
Tilman Sommer	original version of the graphical user interface XGUI with integrated network editor, PostScript printing.
Ralf Hübner	SNNS simulator 3D graphical user interface, user interface development (version 2.0 to 3.0).
Thomas Korb	SNNS network compiler and network description language Nessus.
Michael Vogt	Radial Basis Functions. Together with Günter Mamier implementation of Time Delay Networks. Definition of the new pattern format.
Günter Mamier	SNNS visualization and analyzing tools. Implementation of the batch execution capability. Together with Michael Vogt implementation of the new pattern handling. Compilation and continuous update of the user manual. Maintenance of the ftp server. Bugfixes and installation of external contributions.
Michael Schmalzl	SNNS network creation tool Bignet, implementation of Cascade Correlation, and printed character recognition with SNNS.
Kai-Uwe Herrmann	ART models ART1, ART2, ARTMAP and modification of the BigNet tool.
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou	documentation about the SNNS project, learning procedure Backpercolation 1.
Dietmar Posselt	ANSI-C translation of SNNS.
Sven Döring	ANSI-C translation of SNNS and source code maintenance. Implementation of distributed kernel for workstation clusters.
Tobias Soyez	Jordan and Elman networks, implementation of the network analyzer.
Tobias Schreiner	Network pruning algorithms.
Bernward Kett	Redesign of C-code generator snns2c.
Jens Wieland	Design and implementation of batchman.
Jürgen Gatter	Implementation of TACOMA and some modifications of Cascade Correlation.
Igor Fischer	Java user interface design and development.
Fabian Hennecke	Java user interface development.
Christian Bannes	Java user interface support
Hans Rudolph	JavaNNS kernel port for Mac OS X

There are a number of important external contributions by: Martin Reczko, Martin Riedmiller, Mark Seemann, Marcus Ritt, Jamie DeCoster Jochen Biedermann, Joachim Danz, Christian Wehrfritz Randolf Werner, Michael Berthold and Bruno Orsier.