Prediction of Cutting Performance of Diamond Wire Saw Machine in Quarrying of Marble: A Neural Network Approach S. C. Jain • S. S. Rathore Received: 28 January 2009/Accepted: 30 May 2009/Published online: 17 March 2011 Springer-Verlag 2011 Keywords Cutting rate Wear rate Thrust ANN Multivariate regression analysis Dolomitic marble 1 Introduction