Intelligent prediction of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in Caspian Sea sediment using a neural network based on particle swarm optimization

In this paper an intelligent model is proposed to predict the amount of organic pollutants in Caspian Sea sediment based on a feed forward artificial neural network (ANN) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Organic pollutants have carcinogenesis and mutagenesis properties which are derived from anthropogenic and natural sources. The PSO-ANN was developed by experimental data collected from different literature. The...