The discovery and widespread dissemination of an effective
general method of training a multilayer neural network in 1980s
played a major rule in the application of neural networks as a tool
for solving a wide variety of problems. There has been a substantial
increase in the interest in the artificial neural network methods in
recent years. Several successful applications of ANN can be found in
various fields of mathematics, engineering, medicine, economics,
metrology, psychology, and neurology