software/NEDECO.md

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+The NEural DEcoding COnfiguration (NEDECO) Package provides an optimization
+framework for automated and holistic parameter optimization of neural decoding
+systems. The framework considers both algorithmic and dataflow parameters while
+jointly taking into account both the neural decoding accuracy and execution
+time of the optimized solutions.  The framework applies a population-based
+search strategy to optimize the relevant algorithmic and dataflow parameters of
+the given neural decoding system. The framework is general in that a variety of
+search strategies can be plugged-in; it is not specific to a single type of
+search method. Presently, two different search strategies are integrated into
+NEDECO --- Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and and Genetic Algorithms (GAs).
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+The objective of the NEDECO package is to help experimental
+neuroscientists and neural decoding system designers to arrive at
+strategically-optimized configurations of neural decoding implementations.