Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1223
        Tsuyoshi TAKEBE

PAPERS
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 . Distortion-Complexity and Rate-Distortion Function ............. 1224
        Jun MURAMATSU and Fumio KANAYA

 . A Method for Computing the Weight Distribution of a Block Code by
   Using Its Trellis Diagram ...................................... 1230
        Yoshihisa DESAKI, Toru FUJIWARA and Tadao KASAMI

 . Multilevel RLL (D, K, l) Constrained Sequences ................. 1238
        Oscar Yassuo TAKESHITA, Ryuji KHONO and Hideki IMAI

 . Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Unidirectional Byte Error
   Locating Codes ................................................. 1246
        Shuxin JIANG and Eiji FUJIWARA

 . Unidirectional Byte Error Locating Codes ....................... 1253
        Shuxin JIANG and Eiji FUJIWARA

 . On Trellis Structure of LUEP Block Codes and a Class of UEP QPSK
   Block Modulation Codes ......................................... 1261
        Robert MORELOS-ZARAGOZA

 . Performance Evaluation Method of Trellis Coded Modulation Scheme
   without Uniformity ............................................. 1267
        Haruo OGIWARA and Kazuo OOHIRA

 . An 8-Dimensional Trellis-Coded 8-PSK with Non-zero Crossing
   Constraint ..................................................... 1274
        Tadashi WADAYAMA, Koichiro WAKASUGI and Masao KASAHARA

 . Variable Error Controlling Schemes for Intelligent Error Controlling
   Systems ........................................................ 1281
        Taroh SASAKI, Ryuji KOHNO and Hideki IMAI

 . An Error-Controlling Scheme according to the Importance of
   Individual Segments of Model-Based Coded Facial Images ......... 1289
        Noriko SUZUKI, Taroh SASAKI, Ryuji KOHNO and Hideki IMAI

 . Capacity and Cutoff Rate of Overlapping Multi-Pulse Pulse Position
   Modulation (OMPPM) in Optical Direct-Detection Channel:
   Quantum-Limited Case ........................................... 1298
        Tomoaki OHTSUKI, Iwao SASASE and Shinsaku MORI

 . Efficient Cryptosystems over Elliptic Curves Based on a Product of
   Form-Free Primes ............................................... 1309
        Hidenori KUWAKADO and Kenji KOYAMA

 . A Secure Broadcast Communication Method with Short Messages .... 1319
        Masahiro MAMBO, Akinori NISHIKAWA, Eiji OKAMOTO and Shigeo
        TSUJII

 . Dynamic Swapping Schemes and Differential Cryptanalysis ........ 1328
        Toshinobu KANEKO, Kenji KOYAMA and Routo TERADA

 . Innovation Models in a Stochastic System Represented by an
   Input-Output Model ............................................. 1337
        Kuniharu KISHIDA

 . Establishment of Nonlinear ARMA Model for Non-Gaussian Stochastic
   Process and Its Application to Time Series Data of Road Traffic
   Noise .......................................................... 1345
        Akira IKUTA and Mitsuo OHTA

 . Stochastic Signal Processing for Incomplete Observations under the
   Amplitude Limitations in Indoor and Outdoor Sound Environments
   Based on Regression Analysis ................................... 1353
        Noboru NAKASAKO, Mitsuo OHTA and Hitoshi OGAWA

 . A Method to Interpret 3D Motions Using Neural Networks ......... 1363
        Akira WATANABE, Nobuyuki YAZAWA, Arata MIYAUCHI and Minami
        MIYAUCHI

LETTERS
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 . Source Coding of Sentences with Truth Values on a m0,1n-Valued
   Logic System ................................................... 1371
        Hisashi SUZUKI and Suguru ARIMOTO

 . Uniquely Decodable Code Pair Derived from a Class of Generator
   Matrices for Two-User Binary Adder Channel ..................... 1375
        Jian-Jun SHI and Yoichiro WATANABE

 . Performance of a Modified Symbol-Rate-Increased TC-2mQAM ....... 1378
        Hirokazu TANAKA and Tomoko K.MATSUSHIMA

 . Performance Analysis of Multi-Pulse Position Modulation (MPPM) in
   Noisy Photon Counting Channel .................................. 1381
        Tomoaki OHTSUKI, Iwao SASASE and Shinsaku MORI

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Neural Networks]

 . Parallel Analog Image Coding and Decoding By Using Cellular Neural
   Networks ....................................................... 1387
        Mamoru TANAKA, Kenneth R.CROUNSE and TamaLs ROSKA

 . Pipelining Gauss Seidel Method for Analysis of Discrete Time
   Cellular Neural Networks ....................................... 1396
        Naohiko SHIMIZU, Gui-Xin CHENG, Munemitsu IKEGAMI, Yoshinori
        NAKAMURA and Mamoru TANAKA

LETTERS
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[Digital Signal Processing]

 . On Pisarenko and Constrained Yule-Walker Estimators of Tone
   Frequency ...................................................... 1404
        Yegui XIAO and Yoshiaki TADOKORO

[Switched Capacitor Circuits]

 . A Capacitor-Error-Free SC Voltage Inverter with Zero Sensitivity to
   Element-Value Variations ....................................... 1407
        Sin Eam TAN, Takahiro INOUE and Fumio UENO

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-A, No.8 in Japanese) .......... 1409