“…and others, which has proved to be of great practical value in engineering management (Wang, Xu, Wang, You, & Tan, ). Though a single algorithm has some advantages such as low complexity and high efficiency (Montalvo, Izquierdo, Pérez‐García, & Herrera, ), the commonly used data mining algorithms such as support vector machines (Dai, & Cao, ), neural networks (Rigos, Tsekouras, Vousdoukas, Chatzipavlis, & Velegrakis, ; Zeinalia & Story, ), and decision trees have initial parameters in these methods that are not easy to adjust (Hong, Dong, Chen, & Wei, ; Üstün, Melssen, Oudenhuijzen, & Buydens, ; Yang, Deb, & Fong, ), and the prediction accuracy of a single model is often not sufficient for the solution of ever increasingly complicated pattern recognition problems (Chou, Cheng, & Wu, ; Van Wezel & Potharst, ). In a seminal book, Adeli and Hung () demonstrated how integration of the three main computational intelligence (CI) techniques of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms can solve the complicated face recognition and engineering design problems more effectively than any of those approaches used alone.…”