“…Artificial neural networks have been applied also in scientific fields such as geology (Subbaiah, 2011;Xia-Ting, Young Jia, & Jian Guo, 1996;Zhu et al, 2013), hydrology (Adamowski & Chan, 2011;Ghose, Panda, & Swain, 2010;Kumar, Raghuwanshi, & Singh, 2010;Li, Shu, Liu, Yin, & Wen, 2012) or surface protection (Ambro zi c & Turk, 2003;Gruszczy nski, 2007;Jung, Cheon, & Choi, 2005;Kim, Lee, & Oh, 2008;Oh & Lee, 2011;Park, Choi, Jin Lee, & Lee, 2012;Pawlu s, 2007;Yang & Xia, 2013;Zhang, Liu, & Liu, 2011).…”