“…In the recent literature, many studies have dealt with multi-stage learning algorithms [6,10,12]; clustering algorithms for centroid relocation [4, 6-8, 10, 12, 13]; and optimal width adjustment for the basis functions [2,3,6,11,12,14,17]. To briefly describe a few, a three-stage algorithm, comprising k-means, k-nn and Optimal Steepest Descent (OSD) methods, is proposed in [12].…”