Review on the Development of Mining Method Selection to Identify New Techniques Using a Cascade-Forward Backpropagation Neural Network

Table 3

Summary of first representative MMS studies using SC technologies and MCDM methods.

Author	Soft computing technologies					MCDM methods
	EXS	FUA	ANN	YAM	FUE	AHP	TOPSIS
Yun and Huang [98]		✓
Bandopadhyay and Venkatasubramanian [11]	✓
Gershon et al. [119]	✓
Xiaohua [120]	✓		✓
Guray et al. [22]	✓
Bitarafan and Ataei [101]		✓
Ataei et al. [39]		✓		✓
Yavuz [121]						✓
Naghadehi et al. [106]				✓		✓
Azadeh et al. [28]		✓
Namin et al. [113]		✓			✓	✓	✓
Gupta and Kumar [122]						✓
Yavuz [121]				✓		✓

EXS, expert system; FUA, fuzzy algorithm; ANN, artificial neural network; YAM, Yagar’s method; FUE, fuzzy entropy; MCDM, multiple-criteria decision-making; AHP, analytic hierarchy process; TOPSIS, technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution.