For this argument you have to go through "From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation- International Workshop on ANN, Malaga-Torremolions, Spain, June 7 -9. 1995 Proceedings". This suggestion is based on assumption that you might be aware of concept of "Self organizing Map" in networking and communication analysis.
I have combined the neural networks with genetic algorithms and applied it successfully in many industrial applications like noise reduction from structures or optimization of friction stir processing. Please see my papers at this regards.
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