“…Artificial neural network (ANN) has been used in evaluating geotechnical hazards such as landslides, slope failures and debris flows (Ni et al, 1995;Lee et al, 2004;Neaupane and Achet, 2004;Ermini et al, 2005;Gómez and Kavzoglu, 2005;Wang et al, 2005;Wu et al, 2005b;Chang and Chao, 2006;Kanungo et al, 2006;Lee and Evangelista, 2006;Chang, 2007a;Xue et al, 2007;Caniani et al, 2008;Lin et al, 2008;Melchiorre et al, 2008;Nefeslioglu et al, 2008;Ural and Tolon, 2008;Choi et al, 2010;Lin et al, 2009;Liu et al, 2009;Mondino et al, 2009;Yilmaz, 2009;Kawabata and Bandibas, 2009;Rossi et al, 2010). ANN is shown to be an effective method for prototyping an empirical model for assessing the failure probability of individual slopes (Lin et al, 2009).…”