Building extensible frameworks for data processing: The case of MDP, Modular toolkit for Data Processing

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 345-351

  Wilbert, Niko ^a,b   Zito, Tiziano ^b,c   Schuppner, Rike Benjamin ^b   Jedrzejewski Szmek, Zbigniew ^d   Wiskott, Laurenz ^a,b,e   Berkes, Pietro ^f  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Machine learning; Python; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; CONCRETE APPLICATIONS; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; EXTENSION MECHANISMS; PYTHON; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84883361095     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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