“…Because of simple linear structure and complex nonlinear mapping capability, FLANN and its variants have been applied in a variety of applications including forecasting, classification, system identification, channel equalisation, etc. Pao and Takefuji (1992), Patra et al (1999a), Marcu and Koppen-Seliger (2004), Patra and Pal (1995), Haring et al (1997), Dehuri et al (2008), Majhi and Shalabi (2005), Patra et al (2008), Dash et al (1999), Sing and Srivastava (2002), Hu (2008), Weng and Yen (2004), Hussain et al (1997), Patra et al (1999b), Mishra and Dehuri (2007), Patra et al (2009), Sun et al (2009), Nanda et al (2009), Chakravarty and Dash (2009), Majhi et al (2009), Emrani et al 2010 Backpropagation Pao and Takefuji (1992), …”