“…A number of classification, prediction, and system modelling tasks have been performed with state-of-the-art results. To name a few, excellent performance has been obtained for speech recognition [21,22,55], chaotic time series prediction [22,56,57], nonlinear channel equalization [21,[57][58][59], and radar signal forecasting [58,59]. A summary of the results obtained for each task is given in Table 1.…”