SHARK is a modular package of C++ libraries for the design and optimization of adaptive systems. SHARK offers methods for nonlinear and linear optimization, in particular kernel-based learning algorithms and neural networks, evolutionary and gradient-based algorithms and various other machine learning methods.SHARK serves as a toolbox to support real world applications as well as research in different domains of computational intelligence. The libraries are not necessarily dependent on any third party software. The sources are compatible with the following platforms: Mac OS X Tiger, Windows, Solaris, and Linux.What\'s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]· Starting with version 2.1.1 Shark comes to you as a single file· tgz-distribution.