“…The ANN can establish a functional relationship between input and output variables by training and learning (Chojaczyk, Teixeira, Neves, Cardoso, & Guedes Soares, ). In recent years, ANN models have been studied for the modeling of drying of potato cubes (Azadbakht, Aghili, Ziaratban, & Torshizi, ), bay leaves (Aktaş, Şevik, Özdemir, & Gönen, ), mango ginger (Murthy & Manohar, ), sour cherry (Motavali, Najafi, Abbasi, Minaei, & Ghaderi, ), onion (Jafari, Ganje, Dehnad, & Ghanbari, ), kiwi (Mahjoorian et al, ), zucchini (Tavakolipour, Mokhtarian, & Kalbasi‐Ashtari, ), green bell pepper (Jafari, Ghanbari, Ganje, & Dehnad, ), and turnip slices (Kaveh & Chayjan, ). But, there is no study about comparison between ANN model and mathematical models for PVOD treated and non‐pretreated figs during drying.…”