Visualizing Artificial Neural Networks / News: Recent posts

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First working version is created, neural net's can now be shown.
For usage of jar's see forum/help

Features of this version:
- access in two ways between java and Matlab
- providing an as easy possible infrastructure to handle complex data structures in Matlab
- show the right amount of nodes and display connections between them as expected in a perceptron network, will change to a more dynamic way of interconnecting to allow non trivial network layouts.... read more

I've been further investigating the possibilities of communication between Java and Matlab, without much success, working with the MatlabControl system gives some promising ways to handle the communication although there is still a bug somewhere in that piece of code :(, coding directly in Matlab using Matlab's programming language is possible and allows the use of external java-classes although not through object-orientation, so that route would require functional programming :(.
Still trying to decide but I hope to get past this problem by next week.

Working out a way for interaction between java and matlab has been quit annoying since matlab doesn't offer any interface (except one unsupported and undocumented interface which doesn't allow to pass objects through, so no neural network objects), I'm still investigating the possibility to create a server-client connection between matlab and java.

The sourceforge project is created, afterwards I've been looking into the JGraph library and have made an experiment program that contains a hard-coded graph (neural network like) that is then represented like a neural network should.
Plans for the comming week are experimenting with the matlab <-> java interaction and possibly already representation of an ANN matlab object.