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Release Date: 31-July-1993
Product: NeuralWorks Professional II Plus,
NeuralWorks Explorer,
User-Defined Neuro-Dynamics.
NeuralWorks Designer Pack.
Release ID: 5.00
Platform: Macintosh
Floating Point Coprocessor strongly recommended
Graphics: High Resolution display recommended
System Version: 6.05 or above
Memory: 6.0X 2MB (4 Megabytes recommended)
7.XX 4MB (8 Megabytes recommended)
Disk Space: 4.5 Megabytes + space for storing your
network files.
----- INTRODUCTION -----
If this is your first experience with Neural Networks, welcome to the
world of Neural Computing. NeuralWorks Professional II Plus is a very
extensive Neural Computing tool that allows you to experiment with
different architectures and paradigms to prototype solutions to real
world problems. As well as many easy-to-use standard features,
NeuralWorks Professional II Plus has many areas which can be significantly
customized, including the extensive analysis tools, writing your own
control strategy to describe how data flows through the network, defining
your own generic architectures, and writing your own C program to get data
in and out of your network.
NeuralWorks Explorer is an educational and prototyping tool which has
all the functionality of NeuralWorks Professional II Plus but only
allows you to save networks with fewer than 5 input PEs and fewer than
5 output PEs. You can build, train, analyze, and experiment with
larger networks, but cannot save or deploy your work. FlashCode is
not available with NeuralWorks Explorer.
User-Defined Neuro-Dynamics is an advanced extension of NeuralWorks
Professional II Plus which allows you to write your own neuro-dynamics
equations in C code and link them in to produce a customized version of
the product.
NeuralWorks Designer Pack is a package which generates source code
from NeuralWorks Network files which can be incorporated into a
deployed application. Designer Pack also provides a test environment
in which to test out the generated code. Networks can be deployed
in both training mode and recall mode.
The above products run on a variety of platforms including MacIntosh,
IBM-PC and compatibles, SUN workstations, IBM RS6000, NEC EWS/4800,
NEC PC/9801, Silicon Graphics IRIS Workstations, HP Workstations,
VAX/VMS and others. NeuralWorks is built from a core set of source
code common to all platforms. From a developers point of view, this
allows for faster development, maintenance and testing of new and
existing features, which in turn benefits you, the user, in terms of
more stable products and more knowledgable technical support. Also,
having a common interface across platforms allows you to switch between
platforms without learning a new interface.
----- LATE BREAKING NEWS -----
Automate Utility:
A detailed description of the "automate" utility did not make it
into the manual. You can read about this utility in the ASCII text
file "automate.txt". Briefly, the automate utility is a User Control
program that can be used to train or test networks in an off-line
batch-processing mode. It allows multiple networks to be processed
without intervention. You create an ASCII data file of tasks to
perform. Tasks supported are:
- open (open an existing network)
- savenet (save a network to disk)
- learn (train a network)
- test (test a network)
- recall (recall a network)
- savebest (train/test/autosave procedure
with optional pruning)
- randomseed (reset the random number generator)
- initialize (initialize the network)
- disable (determine importance of input
variables by disabling individual
or multiple input PEs)
- set learnfile (Change the training file name)
- set testfile (Change the recall/test file name)
- set disable (Disable specific input PEs)
- holdout (PNN and GRNN hold-out procedure
for optimizing Parzen window width.
----- INSTALLATION -----
To install NeuralWorks Professional II Plus or NeuralWorks Explorer,
insert the disk labelled "Installation" and double click on the the
"Installer" icon. The installer dialog will appear. Click on "Install".
The installer will load either the Coprocessor version or the SANE
(Standard Apple Numeric Emulation) version on your hard disk depending
on whether your system has a Floating Point Unit. Files are installed
into a folder called "nw2v50". Not all the disks may be requested by
the Installation process.
Install User Defined Neuro-Dynamics (UDND) and NeuralWorks Designer
Pack in the same way. UDND will be installed into a folder named "UDND"
residing in the "nw2v50" folder. Designer Pack will be installed into
a folder named "DPack" residing in the "nw2v50" folder.
----- PROTECTION DEVICES -----
Users outside the United States of America may be provided with a
MacUniKey(TM) security device to prevent running the software on more
than one computer at once. Attach it to your modem port located on
the back of the Macintosh. You can also place the Mactivator between
any two of the devices in use, or at the end of the daisy chain of SCSI
devices.
NOTE: If you will be running the software on a Macintosh IIfx or
Quadra 900/950 machine (and possible other systems) you must
first run the "SerSwitch" application provided with the release.
Double click on SerSwitch and set the Serial port setting to
"Compatible".
NOTE: Previous versions of NeuralWorks used a protection device that
was attached to the SCSI port. This device is still supported
on machines on which it was previously supported. If you want
to transfer your software to a different machine on which it is
not supported, contact your distributor for a new style protection
device.
MacUniKey is a registered trademark of Software Security, Inc.
----- DOCUMENTATION -----
The following volumes of documentation accompany this release of
NeuralWorks:
(1) System Guide Platform specific information such as
installation and file lists.
(ii) Using NeuralWorks A tutorial taking you step by step
through most of the main features of
the product. It is strongly recommended
that you use this as your introduction
to the product.
(iii) Reference Guide Provides detailed information about
the product's commands, tools, dialog
boxes and functions.
(iv) Neural Computing Guide Authoritative reference on the history
and theory of neural networks. Includes
detailed descriptions of the standard
paradigms supported by NeuralWorks.
(v) Advanced Reference Guide Information about advanced features of
NeuralWorks including network architecture,
User IO programs, control strategies,
and other internal functions of the
software.
Desisgner Pack and UDND have their own manuals.
----- TECHNICAL SUPPORT PROCEDURES -----
If you are having problems with installing the product, please make
sure you have read this Readme file and the appropriate chapters in
the System Guide carefully. This of course also holds true for
executing and using the product.
If you are still having problems, contact NeuralWare at 412-787-8222.
Free technical assistance is available for 60 days from the shipping
date. After that time, registered users of the product must have
purchased a maintenance agreement, sold on a yearly basis. Technical
Assistance is available between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time weekdays, excluding major holidays. Please have
your software serial number ready (printed on the disks, and displayed
in the Utilities/Global Network/Parameters dialog box), as well as your
name and company. Technical Support can only be given to the individual
whose name appears on the maintenance agreement. If you find that the
individual whose name is on the maintenance agreement is no longer using
the software, you may want to consider having the name updated to another
more appropriate user.
Users with a maintenance agreement also automatically receive product
upgrades during the year.
In addition to technical support, NeuralWare also offers consulting
services on a cost basis. Our consulting staff is always willing to
discuss particular applications you might have.