...It provides methods for linear and nonlinear optimization, kernel-based learning algorithms, neural networks, and various other machine learning techniques. It serves as a powerful toolbox for real-world applications as well as research. Shark depends on Boost and CMake. It is compatible with Windows, Solaris, MacOS X, and Linux. Shark is licensed under the permissive GNU Lesser General Public License. Shark provides an excellent trade-off between flexibility and ease-of-use on the one hand, and computational efficiency on the other. Shark offers numerous algorithms from various machine learning and computational intelligence domains in a way that they can be easily combined and extended. ...