Retraction Note to: Neural Comput & Applic (2017) 28:2905–2914. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-2872-4


The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

Fatih Kayaalp and Sultan Zavrak disagree with this retraction. Ahmet Zengin has not clearly stated whether or not they agree with this retraction. Resul Kara did not respond to correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.