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PAPERS
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[Automata, Languages and Theory of Computing]

 . Alternating Finite Automata with Counters and Stack-Counters
   Operating in Realtime ........................................... 929
        Tsunehiro YOSHINAGA and Katsushi INOUE

 . A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Checking the Inclusion for Real-Time
   Deterministic Restricted One-Counter Automata Which Accept by Final
   State ........................................................... 939
        Ken HIGUCHI, Mitsuo WAKATSUKI and Etsuji TOMITA

[Computer Hardware and Design]

 . Quantum-Device-Oriented Multiple-Valued Logic System Based on a
   Super Pass Gate ................................................. 951
        Xiaowei DENG, Takahiro HANYU and Michitaka KAMEYAMA

[Computer Systems]

 . Using Process Algebras for the Semantic Analysis of Data Flow
   Networks ........................................................ 959
        Cinzia BERNARDESCHI, Andrea BONDAVALLI and Luca SIMONCINI

 . A Declarative Synchronization Mechanism for Parallel Object-Oriented
   Computation ..................................................... 969
        Takanobu BABA, Norihito SAITOH, Takahiro FURUTA, Hiroshi
        TAGUCHI and Tsutomu YOSHINAGA

 . Bottleneck Identification Methodology for Performance-Oriented
   Design of Shared-Bus Multiprocessors ............................ 982
        Chiung-San LEE and Tai-Ming PARNG

[Databases]

 . Analysis of Database Production Rules by Process Algebra ........ 992
        Yoshinao ISOBE, Isao KOJIMA and Kazuhito OHMAKI

 . Hierarchy-Based Networked Organization, Modeling, and Prototyping of
   Semantic, Statistic, and Numeric Image Information ............. 1003
        Hussain Sabri SHAKIR and Makoto NAGAO

[Computer Networks]

 . Two-Tier Paging and Its Performance Analysis for Network-based
   Distributed Shared Memory Systems .............................. 1021
        Chi-Jiunn JOU, Hasan S.ALKHATIB and Qiang LI

[Speech Processing and Acoustics]

 . A Minimum Error Approach to Spotting-Based Pattern Recognition . 1032
        Takashi KOMORI and Shigeru KATAGIRI

 . Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using All-Phoneme Ergodic Hidden
   Markov Network ................................................. 1044
        Yasunaga MIYAZAWA, Jun-ichi TAKAMI, Shigeki SAGAYAMA and
        Shoichi MATSUNAGA

[Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition]

 . Determination of Shape and Fall Velocity of Raindrops by Image
   Processing ..................................................... 1051
        Ken-ichiro MURAMOTO

 . Object Recognition in Image Sequences with Hopfield Neural Network
            ....................................................... 1058
        Kouichiro NISHIMURA, Masao IZUMI and Kunio FUKUNAGA

 . On-line Recognition of Cursive Hangul by DP Matching with Structural
   Information .................................................... 1065
        Eun Joo RHEE, Tae Kyun KIM and Masayuki NAKAJIMA

 . 3-D Motion Analysis of a Planar Surface by Renormalization ..... 1074
        Kenichi KANATANI and Sachio TAKEDA

[Bio-Cybernetics and Neurocomputing]

 . Analysis of Momentum Term in Back-Propagation .................. 1080
        Masafumi HAGIWARA and Akira SATO

[Medical Electronics and Medical Information]

 . A Separation of Electroretingrams for Diabetic Retinopathy ..... 1087
        Yutaka MAEDA, Takayuki AKASHI and Yakichi KANATA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-D-I, J78-D-II, No.8 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1093