“…In particular, machine learning (ML) techniques have shown impressive performance in solving real life classification problems in many different areas such as communications (Di, 2007), internet traffic analysis (Nguyen & Armitage, 2008), medical imaging (Wernick, Yang, Brankov, Yourganov, & Strother, 2010), astronomy (Freed & Lee, 2013), document analysis (Khan, Baharudin, Khan, & E-Malik, 2009), biology (Zamani & Kremer, 2011) and time series analysis (Qi & Zhang, 2008). Although complex models such as Neural Networks (NN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) techniques are studied within the ML field, several other approaches also exist, characterized by a greater degree of simplicity when compared with NN and SVM.…”