“…Neural networks have been successfully applied to a variety of real world classification tasks in industry, business and science [186]. Applications include bankruptcy prediction [2], [96], [101], [167], [187], [195], handwriting recognition [61], [92], [98], [100], [113], speech recognition [25], [106], product inspection [97], [130], fault detection [11], [80], medical diagnosis [19], [20], [30], [31], and bond rating [44], [163], [174]. A number of performance comparisons between neural and conventional classifiers have been made by many studies [36], [82], [115].…”