Retraction Note to: Neural Comput & Applic (2018) 29:1195–1198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-3261-8


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.


Zhihan Lv did not explicitly state whether or not they agree to this retraction. **aonan Luo did not respond to correspondence from the publisher about this retraction. The publisher was not able to obtain a current contact email for Jim **gyan Wang.