“…In this interdisciplinary study, such a model is obtained using a combination of conventional and soft computing models. Soft computing (Cruz & Pelta, ; Corchado et al ., ; Torra & Narukawa, ) is a collection or set of computational techniques in machine learning (Abraham et al ., ), such as artificial neural networks (Kohonen, ; Herrero et al ., ), genetic algorithms (Lorena & de Carvalho, ; Naldi et al ., ), fuzzy systems (Zadeh, ; Berlanga et al ., ) and swarm intelligence (Das et al ., ), which investigate, simulate and analyse very complex issues and phenomena.…”