Preface

This report is written by Steffen Nissen as a graduate project on DIKU¹. Associate Professor Klaus Hansen is connected to the project as supervisor.

The source code for this project can be found on the internet address:
http://softman.dk/~lukesky/fann/. Furthermore the source code is also located in appendix B. The library will be released under the LGPL licence [FSF, 1999] accompanied by this report. It will be released as a SourceForge.net project [OSDN, 2003] on the internet address: http://SourceForge.net/projects/fann/, shortly after the completion of this report.

A CD-ROM accompanies this report, when delivered as a graduate project. The root of the CD-ROM consist of this report as a PDF file, a small README file and a directory called fann. This directory contains the entire CVS structure used while creating this library and report, I will now describe the important directories in this CVS:

doc

Contains all the material used in the report, including some of the articles used for writing this report.

libraries

Contains the ANN libraries and programs, which was used for the benchmarks.

src

Contains the source for the fann library and the files generated during the benchmarks.

src/test

Contains the test and benchmark programs.

src/datasets

Contains the datasets used for the quality benchmarks.

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