“…For the purpose of selecting appropriate or optimum manufacturing parameters, a considerable number of authors have used various optimisation techniques such as genetic algorithm (Correia et al, 2005;Sathiya et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2002), simulated annealing (Katherasan et al, 2013;Min et al, 2001;Padmanaban et al, 2014;Roshan et al, 2013), ant colony optimisation algorithm (Raghavendra et al, 2009;Okumoto, 2009), artificial bee colony algorithm (Fang et al, 2014), particle swarm optimisation (Majumder, 2013(Majumder, , 2014Majumder et al, 2014) etc. The major disadvantage of such techniques is they require an empirical relation between factors and response parameters which can only be possible by using RSM or ANN technique (Kim et al, 2002;Roshan et al, 2013;Majumder, 2013Majumder, , 2014Majumder et al, 2014).…”