“…Classification models based on SVM are widely used in the literature to perform the predictive analyses on data from several problems and fields. Only in the last two years, SVM has been successfully employed to solve problems in domains, such as geology (García-Nieto et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2017;Jung et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2017;Mahvash and Hezarkhani, 2018;Pu et al, 2019), hydrological sciences (Choubin et al, 2019b(Choubin et al, , 2018Kisi et al, 2019;Rahmati et al, 2019;Sajedi-Hosseini et al, 2018), climate and weather (Fan et al, 2018;Kundu et al, 2017;Yu et al, 2018Yu et al, , 2017, fault detection in various systems and processes (Ali et al, 2018;Fazai et al, 2019;Ghalyani and Mazinan, 2019;Han et al, 2019;Liu and Zio, 2018;Manjurul Islam and Kim, 2019;Saari et al, 2019;Xi et al, 2019), health and medicine (Battineni et al, 2019;Di et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2019;Lukmanto et al, 2019;Vougas et al, 2019), agriculture (Akbarzadeh et al, 2018;Feng et al, 2019;Fernandes et al, 2019;Griffel et al, 2018;Leena and Saju, 2019;Radhakrishnan and Ramanathan, 2018;Zhou et al, 2019) power and energy systems (Ma et al, 2018;…”