“…Hence, the gradient of the error criterion with respect to this time delay variable cannot be calculated explicitly but needs to be approximated. In Banyasz and Kevtczky (1994), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2013a), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2012a), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2012b), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2012c), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2013b), Bedoui, Ltaief, and Abderrahim (2013c), Lim and Macleod (1995) a first-order approximation of the gradient with respect to the time delay variable using the corresponding difference quotient is used.…”