Special Section of Papers Selected from 1993 Joint Technical Conference on
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Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (JTC-CSCC '93)
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 . FOREWORD ........................................................ 935
        Tatsuo HIGUCHI

PAPERS
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[Digital Signal Processing]

 . An ARMA Order Selection Method with Fuzzy Theorem ............... 937
        Miki HASEYAMA, Hideo KITAJIMA, Masafumi EMURA and Nobuo NAGAI

 . High-Performance Multiprocessor Implementation for Block-State
   Realization of State-Space Digital Filters ...................... 944
        Yoshitaka TSUNEKAWA and Kyousiro SEKI

 . An Improved Adaptive Notch Filter for Detection of Multiple
   Sinusoids ....................................................... 950
        Shotaro NISHIMURA

 . The Characteristic Improvement of a Digital Filter Using a Feedback
   Path ............................................................ 956
        Koichiro IWASAKI and Rokuya ISHII

[Analog Circuits and Signal Processing]

 . A Study on the Tactile Recognition of Finger Using Electrical
   Stimulus ........................................................ 962
        Seungjik LEE, Jaeho SHIN, Hynpil JOO, Takashi UCHIYAMA and
        Seiichi NOGUCHI

 . Design and Simulation of Neural Network Digital Sequential Circuits
            ........................................................ 968
        Hiroshi NINOMIYA and Hideki ASAI

 . Computer Simulation of Jitter Characteristics of PLL for Arbitrary
   Data and Jitter Patterns ........................................ 977
        Kenichi NAKASHI, Hiroyuki SHIRAHAMA, Kenji TANIGUCHI, Osamu
        TSUKAHARA and Tohru EZAKI

[Communications]

 . An Approach to Dynamic Channel Assignment in a Cellular Mobile
   Communication System Using a Neural Network ..................... 985
        Kazuhiko SHIMADA, Keisuke NAKANO, Masakazu SENGOKU and Takeo
        ABE

 . Evaluation of Innercell and Intercell Interference on CDMA System
            ........................................................ 993
        Manabu KAWABE, Takuro SATO, Toshio KATO and Atsushi FUKASAWA

[Nonlinear Circuits and Systems]

 . Communication Systems via Chaotic Modulations .................. 1000
        Makoto ITOH, Hiroyuki MURAKAMI and Leon O. CHUA

[Neural Networks]

 . An Improvement of the Pseudoinverse Rule with Diagonal Elements  1007
        Hiroshi UEDA, Masaya OHTA, Akio OGIHARA and Kunio FUKUNAGA

 . A Correcting Method for Pitch Extraction Using Neural Networks . 1015
        Akio OGIHARA and Kunio FUKUNAGA

[Modeling and Simulation]

 . Relaxation-Based Algorithms for Bipolar Circuit Analysis ....... 1023
        Masaki ISHIDA, Koichi HAYASHI, Masakatsu NISHIGAKI and Hideki
        ASA

LETTERS
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[Communications]

 . Performance of Parallel Combinatory SS Communication Systems in
   Rayleigh Fading Channel ........................................ 1028
        Shigenobu SASAKI, Hisakazu KIKUCHI, Jinkang ZHU and Gen
        MARUBAYASHI

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Algorithms, Data Structures and Computational Complexity]

 . Polygon Interval Arithmetic and Interval Evaluation of Value Sets of
   Transfer Functions ............................................. 1033
        Yuzo OHTA, Lei GONG and Hiromasa HANEDA

[Computer Aided Design (CAD)]

 . A Mathematical Formulation of Allocation and Floorplanning Problem
   in VLSI Data Path Synthesis .................................... 1043
        Shoichiro YAMADA

[Control and Computing]

 . Optimal Filtering Algorithm Using Covariance Information in Linear
   Continuous Distributed Parameter Systems ....................... 1050
        Seiichi NAKAMORI

[Information Theory and Coding Theory]

 . On Branch Labels of Parallel Components of the L-Section Minimal
   Trellis Diagrams for Binary Linear Block Codes ................. 1058
        Tadao KASAMI, Toru FUJIWARA, Yoshihisa DESAKI and Shu LIN

[Neural Networks]

 . A Class of Neural Networks Based on Approximate Identity for Analog
   IC's Hardware Implementation ................................... 1069
        Massimo CONTI, Simone ORCIONI and Claudio TURCHETTI

LETTERS
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[Nonlinear Circuits and Systems]

 . Dynamically Overlapped Partitioning Technique to Implement Waveform
   Relaxation Simulation of Bipolar Circuits ...................... 1080
        Vijaya Gopal BANDI and Hideki ASAI

[Numerical Analysis and Self-Validation]

 . Improving the Convergence of Spherical Algorithms for Tracing
   Solution Curves ................................................ 1085
        Kiyotaka YAMAMURA

 . ABSTRACTS(IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-A, No.6 in Japanese) ........... 1089