Special Section on Signal Processing and System Theory ====================================================== . FOREWORD ........................................................ 747 Nobuo NAGAI INVITED PAPERS ============== . Parameter Estimation of Multivariate ARMA Processes Using Cumulants ........................................................ 748 Yujiro INOUYE and Toyohiro UMEDA . Design of Time-Varying ARMA Models and Its Adaptive Identification ........................................................ 760 Yoshikazu MIYANAGA, Eisuke HORITA, Jun'ya SHIMIZU and Koji TOCHINAI PAPERS ====== . Isomorphism between Continuous-and Discrete-Time Systems with Input Signals of Piecewise Polynomials................................. 771 Kazuo TORAICHI and Takahiko HORIUCHI . A State Space Approach for Distributed Parameter Circuit --Disturbance-Rejection Problem for Infinite-Dimensional Systems-- ...................................................... 778 Naohisa OTSUKA, Hiroshi INABA and Kazuo TORAICHI . Improvement of the Time-Domain Response of a Thermodilution Sensor by the Natural Observation System ............................... 784 Jun'ichi HORI, Yoshiaki SAITOH and Tohru KIRYU . A Short-Time Speech Analysis Method with Mapping Using the FejeLr Kernel .......................................................... 792 Nobuhiro MIKI, Kenji TAKEMURA and Nobuo NAGAI . An Adaptive Method Analyzing Analytic Speech Signals ............ 800 Eisuke HORITA, Yoshikazu MIYANAGA and Koji TOCHINAI . A Restatement on Applications of Electrical Considerations for One-Dimentional Wave Phenomena .................................. 804 Nobuo NAGAI . Sampling Theorem for Spline Signal Space of Arbitrary Degree .... 810 Mamoru IWAKI and Kazuo TORAICHI . A General Formula for the Wavelets in Fluency Approach .......... 818 Kazuo TORAICHI and Masaru KAMADA . Convergence Analysis of Processing Cost Reduction Method of NLMS Algorithm ....................................................... 825 Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI and Shinsaku MORI . Motion Artifact Elimination Using Fuzzy Rule Based Adaptive Nonlinear Filter ................................................ 833 Tohru KIRYU, Hidekazu KANEKO and Yoshiaki SAITOH . Relation between RLS and ARMA Lattice Filter Realization Algorithm and Its Application ............................................. 839 Miki HASEYAMA, Nobuo NAGAI and Hideo KITAJIMA . Estimation of Noise Variance from Noisy Measurements of AR and ARMA Systems: Application to Blind Identification of Linear Time-Invariant Systems .......................................... 847 Takashi YAHAGI and Md.Kamrul HASAN LETTERS ======= . A Convolution Property for Sinusoidal Unitary Transforms ........ 856 Yasuo YOSHIDA . Linear Phase IIR Hilbert Transformers Using Time Reversal Techniques ........................................................ 864 Atsushi HIROI, Hiroyuki KAMATA and Yoshihisa ISHIDA Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Algorithms, Data Structures and Computational Complexity] . Convergence of the Simple Genetic Algorithm to the Two-bit Problems ........................................................ 868 Yoshikane TAKAHASHI [Computer Aided Design (CAD)] . Pattern Generation for Locating Logic Design Errors ............. 881 Masahiro TOMITA, Naoaki SUGANUMA and Kotaro HIRANO [Digital Image Processing] . Perfect Reconstruction Conditions for Adaptive Blocksize MDCT ... 894 Takashi MOCHIZUKI [Digital Signal Processing] . Interpolatory Estimation of Multi-Dimensional Orthogonal Expansions with Stochastic Coefficients .................................... 900 Takuro KIDA, Somsak SA-NGUANKOTCHAKORN and Kenneth JENKINS . Generation of Stationary Random Signals with Arbitrary Probability Distribution and Exponential Correlation ........................ 917 Junichi NAKAYAMA [Parallel/Multidimensional Signal Processing] . Distributed Load Balancing Schemes for Parallel Video Encoding System .......................................................... 923 Zhaochen HUANG, Yoshinori TAKEUCHI and Hiroaki KUNIEDA . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-A, No.5 in Japanese) ........... 931