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In this paper, we propose computationally-cheap solutions based on the support vector machine (SVM) and twin SVM (TWSVM) learning algorithms in which network nodes firstly detect the desired signal. Then, the network is trained to specify the nodes in the vicinity of the source (or target); hence, the region of event is detected. Finally, the centroid of the event region is considered as an estimation of the source location. 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