VOL. E81-A No.9SEPTEMBER 1998 ============================= @ == Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications ======================================================== . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1761 Mamoru TANAKA PAPERS ====== [Chaos, Bifurcation and Fractal] . Chaos Induced by Quantization .................................. 1762 Takaomi SHIGEHARA, Hiroshi MIZOGUCHI, Taketoshi MISHIMA, and Taksu CHEON . On the Distribution of Synchronization Delays in Coupled Fully-Stretching Markov Maps ................................... 1769 Riccardo ROVATTI and Gianluca SETTI . Topological Conjugacy Propagates Stochastic Robustness of Chaotic Maps ........................................................... 1777 Riccardo ROVATTI and Gianluca SETTI . Circuit Realization of a Coupled Chaotic Circuits Network and Irregular Pattern Switching Phenomenon ......................... 1785 Toshihisa OHIRO, Yoshinobu SETOU, Yoshifumi NISHIO, and Akio USHIDA . Locating Fold Bifurcation Points Using Subspace Shooting ....... 1791 Hidetaka ITO and Akira KUMAMOTO . FM-DCSK: A Robust Modulation Scheme for Chaotic Communications . 1798 GeLza KOLUMBALN, GaLbor KIS, ZoltaLn JALKOL, and Michael Peter KENNEDY . Fractal Modeling of Fluctuations in the Steady Part of Sustained Vowels for High Quality Speech Synthesis ....................... 1803 Naofumi AOKI and Tohru IFUKUBE [Neural Networks] . On the Uesaka's Conjecture as to the Optimization by Means of Neural Networks for Combinatorial Problems ............................ 1811 Tetsuo NISHI . A Neuronal Time Window for Coincidence Detection ............... 1818 Yuichi SAKUMURA and Kazuyuki AIHARA . Dynamical Neural Network Model for Hippocampal Memory .......... 1824 Osamu ARAKI and Kazuyuki AIHARA . A Cascade Neural Network for Blind Signal Extraction without Spurious Equilibria ............................................ 1833 Ruck THAWONMAS, Andrzej CICHOCKI, and Shun-ichi AMABI . A Fast Algorithm for Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis of Neural Networks with Multivalued Logic ................................ 1847 Hiroshi NINOMIYA, Atsushi KAMO, Teru YONEYAMA, and Hideki ASAI . Asynchronous Pulse Neural Network Model for VLSI Implementation 1853 Mitsuru HANAGATA, Yoshihiko HORIO, and Kazuyuki AIHARA [Control and Adaptive Systems] . Quadratic Polynomial Solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi Inequality in Reliable Control Design ........................................ 1860 Der-Cherng LIAW and Yew-Wen LIANG . Improved Trajectory Estimation of Reentry Vehicles from Radar Measurements Using On-Line Adaptive Input Estimator ............ 1867 Sou-Chen LEE and Cheng-Yu LIU . Towards the IC Implementation of Adaptive Fuzzy Systems ........ 1877 Iluminada BATURONE, Santiago SALNCHEZ-SOLANO, and JoseL L. HUERTAS [Numerical Analysis] . An Estimation by Interval Analysis of Region Guaranteeing Existence of a Solution Path in Homotopy Method .......................... 1886 Mitsunori MAKINO . A Method of Proving the Existence of Simple Turning Points of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Based on the Numerical Computation with Guaranteed Accuracy ........................... 1892 Takao SOMA, Shin'ichi OISHI, Yuchi KANZAWA, and Kazuo HORIUCHI LETTER ====== [Genetic Algorithm] . On the Search for Effective Spare Arrangement of Reconfigurable Processor Arrays Using Genetic Algorithm ....................... 1898 Noritaka SHIGEI and Hiromi MIYAJIMA Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Circuit Theory] . Synthesis of Low Peak-to-Peak Waveforms with Flat Spectra ...... 1902 Takafumi HAYASHI [VLSI Design Technology and CAD] . Assignment of Intervals to Parallel Tracks with Minimum Total Cross-Talk ..................................................... 1909 Yasuhiro TAKASHIMA, Atsushi TAKAHASHI, and Yoji KAJITANI [Information Theory and Coding Theory] . A Recursive Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithm for Some Transitive Invariant Binary Block Codes ........................ 1916 Tadao KASAMI, Hitoshi TOKUSHIGE, Toru FUJIWARA, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, and Shu LIN [Neural Networks] . A Flexible Learning Algorithm for Binary Neural Networks ....... 1925 Atsushi YAMAMOTO and Toshimichi SAITO . Dynamic Sample Selection: Theory ............................... 1931 Peter GELCZY and Shiro USUI . Dynamic Sample Selection: Implementation ....................... 1940 Peter GELCZY and Shiro USUI LETTERS ======= [General Fundamentals and Boundaries] . Multivalued Logic for Inference Chain, Induction and Deduction . 1948 Hisashi SUZUKI [Acoustics] . An Acoustic Echo Cancellation Based on the Adaptive Lattice-Transversal Joint (LTJ) Filter Structure ............... 1951 Jae Ha YOO, Sung Ho CHO, and Dae Hee YOUN [Digital Signal Processing] . An Algorithm for Improving the Signal to Noise Ratio of Noisy Complex Sinusoidal Signals Using Sum of Higher-Order Statistics 1955 Teruyuki HARA, Atsushi OKAMURA, and Tetsuo KIRIMOTO . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol. J81-A, No.9 in Japanese) ......... 1958