Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1055
        Saburo TAZAKI

PAPERS
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 . A Universal Data-Base for Data Compression ..................... 1057
        Jun MURAMATSU and Fumio KANAYA

 . Coding Theorems on Correlated General Sources .................. 1063
        Shigeki MIYAKE and Fumio KANAYA

 . High Rate Binary Coset Code Used for Inner Code ................ 1071
        Tadashi WADAYAMA, Koichiro WAKASUGI, and Masao KASAHARA

 . An Improved Union Bound on Block Error Probability for Closest Coset
   Decoding ....................................................... 1077
        Kenichi TOMITA, Toyoo TAKATA, Tadao KASAMI, and Shu LIN

 . A Class of Error Locating Codes --SEC-Se/bEL Codes-- ........... 1086
        Masato KITAKAMI and Eiji FUJIWARA

 . Effects of Hard-Limiter and Error Correction Coding on Performance
   of Direct-Detection Optical CDMA Systems with PPM Signaling .... 1092
        Tomoaki OHTSUKI, Iwao SASASE, and Shinsaku MORI

 . Non-coherent Reception of M-ary Spread-Spectrum Signals in the
   Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset ........................... 1102
        Tadahiro WADA, Takaya YAMAZATO, Masaaki KATAYAMA, and Akira
        OGAWA

 . Importance Sampling for TCM Scheme over Non-Gaussian Noise Channel
            ....................................................... 1109
        Takakazu SAKAI and Haruo OGIWARA

 . MFSK/FH-CDMA System with Two-Stage Address Coding and Error
   Correcting Coding and Decoding ................................. 1117
        Weidong MAO, Ryuji KOHNO, and Hideki IMAI

 . Periodic Correlation Properties of FM Coded M Sequences Having DC
   Free Spectrum .................................................. 1127
        Shinji TSUZUKI, Shunsaku OSAKI, Saburo TAZAKI, and Yoshio
        YAMADA

 . A Proposal of Multiple Optical Wideband Frequency Modulation System
   and Its Phase Noise Insensitivity .............................. 1136
        Toshiaki KURI, Katsutoshi TSUKAMOTO, and Norihiko MORINAGA

 . On Chaotic Synchronization and Secure Communications ........... 1142
        Ljupco M.KOCAREV and Toni D.STOJANOVSKI

 . On Applicability of Linear Cryptanalysis to DES-like Cryptosystems
   -LOKI89, LOKI91 and s2 DES- .................................... 1148
        Toshio TOKITA, Tohru SORIMACHI, and Mitsuru MATSUI

 . A New Approach to Constructing a Provably Secure Variant of
   Schnorr's Identification Scheme ................................ 1154
        Satoshi HADA and Hatsukazu TANAKA

 . Reliability Functions for Concatenated Codes Employing Modular Codes
   with Maximum Likelihood Decoding ............................... 1160
        Tomohiko UYEMATSU, Junya KAGA, and Eiji OKAMOTO

 . Signal Dependent Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Signal
   Representations Designed Using the Radon Transform ............. 1170
        Branko RISTIC and Boualem BOASHASH

 . Efficient Coding of the Short-Term Speech Spectrum with Two-Step
   Vector Quantization Methods .................................... 1178
        Hamid Reza SADEGH MOHAMMADI and Warwick Harvey HOLMES

 . Homotopy Equivalent Spectral Transformation and Morse Theory ... 1186
        Yoshinao SHIRAKI

 . Identification of a Class of Time-Varying Nonlinear System Based on
   the Wiener Model with Application to Automotive Engineering .... 1192
        Jonathon C.RALSTON, Abdelhak M.ZOUBIR, and Boualem BOASHASH

 . Quasi-Synchronous Time Division Duplex CDMA .................... 1201
        Riaz ESMAILZADEH and Masao NAKAGAWA

LETTERS
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 . Uniquely Decodable Code for Three-User Binary Adder Channel .... 1206
        Jian-Jun SHI and Yoichiro WATANABE

 . Average Complexity Evaluation of an MLD Algorithm Using the Trellis
   Structure for a Linear Block Code .............................. 1209
        Hidehisa NAGANO, Toru FUJIWARA, and Tadao KASAMI

 . Performance of Bit-Interleaved Trellis Coded 16-QAM with Maximized
   Code Diversity ................................................. 1215
        Akio AOYAMA, Hitoshi NAKAGAWA, Takaya YAMAZATO, Masaaki
        KATAYAMA,and Akira OGAWA

 . Throughput Analysis of Slotted Non-persistent and One-persistent
   CSSS/OD (Carrier Sense Spread Spectrum with Overload Detection)
   Protocols ...................................................... 1220
        Francis N.MUMBA, Shinji TSUZUKI, Yoshio YAMADA, and Saburo
        TAZAKI

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Nonlinear Problems]

 . Bifurcation Analysis of Nonlinear Resistive Circuits by Curve
   Tracing Method ................................................. 1225
        Lingge JIANG and Akio USHIDA

[Numerical Analysis and Optimization]

 . A Modified Spherical Method for Tracing Solution Curves ........ 1233
        Kiyotaka YAMAMURA and Tooru SEKIGUCHI

[Reliability and Fault Analysis]

 . Broadcasting in Hypercubes with Randomly Distributed Byzantine
   Faults ......................................................... 1239
        Feng BAO, Yoshihide IGARASHI, and Keiko KATANO

LETTERS
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[Digital Signal Processing]

 . Two-Dimensional Discrete Orthogonal Transforms by Means of
   Two-Dimensional LMS Adaptive Algorithms ........................ 1247
        Tokunbo OGUNFUMI and Michale AU

[Nonlinear Problems]

 . Resistively Coupled Oscillators with Hybrid Connection ......... 1253
        Mozammel HOQUE and Hiroshi KAWAKAMI

[Information Theory and Coding Theory]

 . On p-Ary Bent Sequences ........................................ 1257
        Shinya MATSUFUJI and Kyoki IMAMURA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-A, No.9 in Japanese) .......... 1261