SNNS (Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator) is a
neural network simulator originally developed at the
University of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wi ...
. While it was originally built for
X11
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under
Unix
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, there are
Windows
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ports. Its successor
JavaNNS never reached the same popularity.
Features
SNNS is written around a simulation kernel to which user written activation functions, learning procedures and output functions can be added. It has support for arbitrary network topologies and the standard release contains support for a number of standard
neural network
A neural network is a network or neural circuit, circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up ...
architectures and training algorithms.
Status
There is currently no ongoing active development of SNNS. In July 2008 the license was changed to the
GNU LGPL
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.
See also
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Artificial neural network
Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually simply called neural networks (NNs) or neural nets, are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains.
An ANN is based on a collection of connected units ...
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Neural network software
Neural network software is used to simulate, research, develop, and apply artificial neural networks, software concepts adapted from biological neural networks, and in some cases, a wider array of adaptive systems such as artificial intelligenc ...
External links
SNNS homepagePatches with bugfixesand a
Python interface to the SNNS kernel
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Neural network software