“…NPN software programs based on GMDH-type algorithms have been described using various terms, including polynomial network (Barron et al, 1984;Drake et al, 1994;Griffin et al, 1994;Kleinsteuber and Sepehri, 1996), abductory induction (Montgomery, 1989), abductive reasoning network (Montgomery and Drake, 1991), and abductive polynomial network (Drake and Kim, 1997). More recently, polynomial network software programs have been classed as data mining tools (Agarwal, 1999;Kim, 2002;King et al, 1998;and Pyo et al, 2002).…”