Intelligent prediction of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in Caspian Sea sediment using a neural network based on particle swarm optimization

In this paper an intelligent model is proposed to predict the amount of organic pollutants in Caspian Sea sediment based on a feed forward artificial neural network (ANN) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Organic pollutants have carcinogenesis and mutagenesis properties which are derived from anthropogenic and natural sources. The PSO-ANN was developed by experimental data collected from different literature. The statistical parameters prove the satisfactory performance of the proposed PSO- ANN model. A good correlation was obtained between the predicted organic pollutants and the experimental data for test, train and validation data were 0.996, 0.997, 0.993, respectively.