The Graphical Simulation Toolkit Neo/NST

Neo/NST is a graphical simulation environment especially well suited for applications in the domain of artificial neural networks and datamining. It was developed by Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter and is heavily used for research and teaching within our department.
NST stands for Neural networks Simulation Toolkit. The underlying idea of NST is to provide an open collection of object oriented reuseable units. Each of these units implements one or a group of methods to transform incoming data. Programs are build by connecting units into suitable data processing circuits. A good analogy would be the world of LEGO where you can build quite complex things with a set of common bricks. Neo stands for NST EditOr and provides a graphical programming environment which allows the rapid prototyping of NST programs. Below you can see a (downscaled) image of a very simple Neo session: