“…The popularity of RBF neural networks compared to other kinds of neural networks concerns: (i) their capacity to approximate function problems, (ii) their simple and reduced architecture (composed only of three layers), (iii) their fast convergence properties and (vi) they have no local minima problems (Kasabov, 1998). Because of these advantages, RBF neural networks were applied in several disciplines, including in the photovoltaic process, to predict current-voltage characteristics and power-voltage (PeV) curves of a commercial PeV module (Bonanno et al, 2012), in medical diseases diagnosis (Qasem and Shamsuddin, 2011), in the identification of nuclear accidents (Gomes and Canedo Medeiros, 2015), in seismic inversions in petroleum exploration (Baddari et al, 2010), in image analysis (Cha and Kassam, 1996;Montazer and Giveki, 2015), in nanocomposite characterization of pore size measurement and wear model of a sintered CoppereTungsten (Leema et al, 2015), in the estimation of geotechnical parameters (Sinha and Wang, 2008;Mustafa et al, 2012), in geology to estimate the grade of an offshore placer gold deposit (Samanta and Bandopadhyay, 2009) and to assess rocky desertification in northwest Guangxi, China (Zhang et al, 2011).…”