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Citation Request
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If you want to understand how to use Derivative Free-optimized Cascade Forward Neural Network, you
need to read the paper titled `Optimization of neural-network model using a meta-heuristic algorithm for the estimation of dynamic Poisson’s ratio of selected rock types`.
The paper can be accessed at the following `this link <https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-023-38163-0>`_


Please include these citations if you plan to use this library::

	@software{thieu_deforce_2024,
	  author = {Van Thieu, Nguyen},
	  title = {{deforce: Derivative-Free Algorithms for Optimizing Cascade Forward Neural Networks}},
	  url = {https://github.com/thieu1995/deforce},
	  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10935437},
	  year = {2024}
	}

    @article{van2023mealpy,
      title={MEALPY: An open-source library for latest meta-heuristic algorithms in Python},
      author={Van Thieu, Nguyen and Mirjalili, Seyedali},
      journal={Journal of Systems Architecture},
      year={2023},
      publisher={Elsevier},
      doi={10.1016/j.sysarc.2023.102871}
    }

    @article{van2023groundwater,
      title={Groundwater level modeling using Augmented Artificial Ecosystem Optimization},
      author={Van Thieu, Nguyen and Barma, Surajit Deb and Van Lam, To and Kisi, Ozgur and Mahesha, Amai},
      journal={Journal of Hydrology},
      volume={617},
      pages={129034},
      year={2023},
      publisher={Elsevier}
    }

    @article{thieu2019efficient,
      title={Efficient time-series forecasting using neural network and opposition-based coral reefs optimization},
      author={Thieu Nguyen, Tu Nguyen and Nguyen, Binh Minh and Nguyen, Giang},
      journal={International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems},
      volume={12},
      number={2},
      pages={1144--1161},
      year={2019}
    }
```

If you have an open-ended or a research question, you can contact me via nguyenthieu2102@gmail.com


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Important links
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* Official source code repo: https://github.com/thieu1995/deforce
* Official document: https://deforce.readthedocs.io/
* Download releases: https://pypi.org/project/deforce/
* Issue tracker: https://github.com/thieu1995/deforce/issues
* Notable changes log: https://github.com/thieu1995/deforce/blob/master/ChangeLog.md

* This project also related to our another projects which are "optimization" and "machine learning", check it here:
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/mealpy
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/metaheuristics
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/opfunu
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/enoppy
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/permetrics
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/MetaCluster
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/pfevaluator
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/intelelm
    * https://github.com/thieu1995/reflame
    * https://github.com/aiir-team


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License
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The project is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) V3 license.


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