NOLTA2004, November 29 - December 3, 2004, ACROS Fukuoka, Fukuoka Japan

Program

November 30, Tuesday

Tu1-P
November 30  9:30 - 11:00 International Conference Hall
Opening and Plenary Talk I

Chair: Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)

1 A Challenge to Bernstein's Degrees-of-Freedom Problem in Both Cases of Human and Robotic Multi-Joint Movements
Suguru Arimoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Tu2-A
November 30  11:30-12:50 Room A
Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling of Neural Signal Processing and Coding (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Martin Hasler (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo), Naoki Masuda (RIKEN), Oscar De Feo (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)

1 Hierarchical Encoding of Faces and Its Neuronal Mechanism in the Inferior-Temporal Cortex
Masato Okada (Univ. of Tokyo), Narihisa Matsumoto (PRESTO, JST), Kaname Toya (Osaka Univ.), Yasuko Sugase-Miyamoto, Shigeru Yamane (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)
2 Macroscopic Manifestations of Neural Connectivity in EEG Signals
Cristian Carmeli, Oscar De Feo (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech.), Giorgio Innocenti (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)
3 Inferring Neural Connectivity and the Underlying Network Dynamics from Spike Train Recordings
Valeri A. Makarov (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Oscar De Feo (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne), Fivos Panetsos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
4 Comments on Analysis of Neural Coding by Information Geometric Measure
Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN)

Tu2-B
November 30  11:30-12:50 Room B
Continuous-Discrete Systems Part I: Theory and Analysis (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.), Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.), Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba Univ.)

1 Synthesis and Analysis of Piecewise-Constant Systems with Sampled-Data Feedbacks
Tadashi Tsubone, Noriyoshi Kambayashi (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.)
2 Bifurcation of the Chaotic Attractor in a Simple Piecewise Smooth Systems
Takuji Kousaka, Masahiko Mori (Fukuyama Univ.), Yue Ma (Tokushima Univ.)
3 Continuous-Discrete Systems - Modelling and Statistical Analysis
Joerg Krupar, Andreas Moegel, Wolfgang Schwarz (Techische Universitaet Dresden)
4 General Consideration for Modelling and Analyzing Switched Dynamical Systems
Yue Ma (Tokushima Univ.), Takuji Kousaka (Fukuyama Univ.), Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Hiroshi Kawakami (Tokushima Univ.)

Tu2-C
November 30  11:30-12:50 Room C
Nonlinear Dynamical Aspects in Design and Control of Robot (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Koichi Osuka (Kobe Univ.)

1 Reinforcement Learning for a Snake-like Robot
Shuichi Fukunaga (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.), Yutaka Nakamura (CREST, JST / Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.), Kazuaki Aso (Toyota Motor Corporation), Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech. / CREST, JST)
2 Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Walking Robot
Koichi Osuka (Kobe Univ.), Yasuhiro Sugimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Ballistic Control for Biped Walking with Pneumatic Actuators
Koh Hosoda, Takashi Takuma (Osaka Univ.)
4 Slimebot: A Modular Robot That Exploits Emergent Phenomena
Akio Ishiguro, Masahiro Shimizu (Nagoya Univ.), Toshihiro Kawakatsu (Tohoku Univ.)

Tu2-D
November 30  11:30-12:30 Room D
Fuzzy

Chair: Yuchi Kanzawa (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)

1 Fine Estimation Theory for Available Operation of Network Systems Extraordinarily Complicated and Diversified on Large-Scales
Kazuo Horiuchi (Waseda Univ.)
2 Fuzzy Reasoning Models with Different Error Measure Criteria
Shinya Fukumoto, Hiromi Miyajima, Yoji Nagasawa (Kagoshima Univ.)
3 The Application of Fuzzy Automata to Medical Signal Processing
Jelena Ficzko, Miha Mraz, Iztok Lebar Bajec, Nikolaj Zimic (Univ. of Ljubljana)

Tu3-A
November 30  14:40-15:40 Room A
Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling of Neural Signal Processing and Coding (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Martin Hasler (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo), Naoki Masuda (RIKEN), Oscar De Feo (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)

1 Dependence of Neural Ergodicity on Noise Strength
Naoki Masuda (RIKEN), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo)
2 Modelling Phase-Locking in Electrically-Coupled Networks of Inhibitory Cortical Interneurons
Hugh Robinson (Univ. of Cambridge), Kunichika Tsumoto (Univ. of Tokyo), Nathan Gouwens (Univ. of Cambridge), Takashi Tateno (Univ. of Osaka), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo)
3 Phase and Frequency Locking in Detailed Neuron Models
Ruedi Stoop, Jonas Buchli, Markus Christen (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

Tu3-B
November 30  14:40-15:40 Room B
Continuous-Discrete Systems Part I: Theory and Analysis (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.), Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.), Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba Univ.)

1 Analysis of Discretely Controlled Switched Positive Systems
Jan Lunze, Stanley I. Kamau (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum)
2 Symbolic Analysis: A Practical Alternative Viewpoint of Border Collision
Chi K. Tse, Dong Dai (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Analysis of Piecewise Constant Models of Power Converters
Takahiro Kabe, Toshimichi Saito, Hiroyuki Torikai (Hosei Univ.)

Tu3-C
November 30  14:40-16:00 Room C
Modeling and Simulation

Chair: Kiyotaka Yamamura (Chuo Univ.)

1 An Algorithm for the Effective Capacitance of CMOS Gate with Interconnect Load
Zhang-cai Huang, Atsushi Kurokawa, Yasuaki Inoue (Waseda Univ.), Jun-fa Mao (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
2 Experimental-Based Approach for Macromodel Synthesis of Interconnects
Junji Kawata (Tokushima Bunri Univ.), Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa Univ.), Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.), Tomoji Yoshida, Tetsuo Tada, Akio Ushida (Tokushima Bunri Univ.)
3 On a Stochastic Beam-Beam Interaction Model under Narrow-Band Excitation
Yong Xu, Wei Xu (Northwestern Polytechinical Univ.), Gamal M Mahmoud (Assiut Univ.)
4 Design of Nonlinear RLS Wiener Fixed-Point Smoother Using Covariance Information in Linear Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems
Seiichi Nakamori, Ali Wang (Kagoshima Univ.)

Tu3-D
November 30  14:40-16:00 Room D
Nonlinear Methods for Time Series Analysis (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Kevin Judd (Univ. of Western Australia)

1 Global Reconstructions of Equations of Motion from Data Series, and Validation Techniques
Gerard Gouesbet, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel (CNRS, Universite et Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Rouen)
2 Attractor Trajectory Surrogates: Hypothesis Testing and Prediction
Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Estimating a Generating Partition from a Time Series: Symbolic Shadowing
Yoshito Hirata, Kevin Judd (Univ. of Western Australia)
4 Spatiotemporal Kalman Filtering: A New Approach to Solving Dynamical Inverse Problems
Andreas Galka (Univ. of Kiel), Okito Yamashita, Tohru Ozaki (Inst. of Statistical Mathematics)

Tu4-A
November 30  16:20-17:40 Room A
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of MEMS/NEMS Systems (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Igor Mezic (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)

1 Dynamics of Materials Processing at the Atomic Scale
Martha Gallivan, Cihan Oguz (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)
2 Subharmonics and Chaos in Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy
Arvind Raman, Shuiqing Hu (Purdue Univ.)
3 Developing Parametrically-Resonant MEMS for Sensing
Kimberly L Turner, Wenhua Zhang (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
4 Nonlinear Dynamics of Dielectrophoretic Particle Motion
Igor Mezic (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)

Tu4-B
November 30  16:20-18:20 Room B
Nonlinear Dynamics in Circuits

Chair: Ljupco Kocarev (Univ. of California, San Diego)

1 Deterministic Partial Discharge Model with Dissipation
Hideyuki Suzuki, Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo), Toshihiro Takahashi, Tatsuki Okamoto (Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry)
2 The Buck Converter Planar Piecewise Isometry
Jonathan H. B. Deane (Univ. of Surrey)
3 Existence of Horseshoes in Current-Mode Controlled Boost Converters
Dong Dai, Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
4 Nonlinear Dynamics of Charge Pump Phase-Locked Loops
Raymond Louis Flynn, Paul Curran, Orla Feely (Univ. College Dublin)
5 Nonlinear Dynamics of the RL-Varactor Circuit in the Depletion Region
Jonathan H. B. Deane, Luke Marsh (Univ. of Surrey)
6 On the Steady State Behaviour of a Class of Non-Linear Mappings
Emer Mary Condon, Paul Curran, Orla Feely (Univ. College Dublin)

Tu4-C
November 30  16:20-18:20 Room C
Numerical Analysis

Chair: Yasuaki Inoue (Waseda Univ.)

1 Fast Error Estimation with Guaranteed Accuracy for Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrix without Directed Rounding
Shinya Miyajima, Takeshi Ogita, Katsuhisa Ozaki, Shin'ichi Oishi (Waseda Univ.)
2 Numerical Method of Proving Existence of Solution for Nonlinear ODE Using Green's Function Expression
Yuchi Kanzawa (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.), Shin'ichi Oishi (Waseda Univ.)
3 Detection of Periodic Oscillations Using Homotopy with Complex State Variables
Takashi Hisakado, Tomotaka Naruse (Kyoto Univ.), Kohshi Okumura (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.)
4 An Efficient Algorithm for Finding All Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Equations
Kiyotaka Yamamura, Akinori Machida (Chuo Univ.)
5 The Generalized DC Analysis of PWL Circuits by Means of Polyhedral Circuits
Stefano Pastore (Universita' di Trieste)
6 Element-Value Determination with Measurement Errors
Isao Yamaguchi (Tokai Univ.), Shoji Shinoda (Chuo Univ.)

Tu4-D
November 30  16:20-18:20 Room D
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis

Chair: Andreas Galka (Univ. of Kiel)

1 Approximating Stochastic Process Rates with Nonlinear Functions
David Mcpetrie Walker, Glenn Marion (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
2 Modelling for Nonlinear Time Series Using Improved Least Squares Method
Tomomichi Nakamura, Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Reliable Correlation Dimension Estimation Method for Analyzing Two-Phase Flow
Akio Suzuki, Masaki Misawa (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.)
4 Identifying Dependencies among Multivariate Time Series
Oscar De Feo, Cristian Carmeli (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)
5 Looking for Nonlinearity in the Dynamics of Surface Wind Using Surrogate Data
Yoshito Hirata, Hideyuki Suzuki, Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo), Rikiya Abe, Koichi Kanie (Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.), Taiji Yamada, Jun Takahashi (AIHARA Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.)
6 Surrogate Generation Algorithm for Pseudoperiodic Time Series
Xiaodong Luo, Tomomichi Nakamura, Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)

December 1, Wednesday

We1-A
December 1  9:30-11:10 Room A
The Information Processing on Dynamical Brain (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Kiyohisa Natsume (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

1 The Ca2+ Mobility During the Induction of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampal CA1 Network
Takeshi Aihara, Yasutoshi Kashiwagi, Youichi Abiru, Hidenori Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fukushima, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (Tamagawa Univ.), Norihiro Yoshida (New York Univ.), Minoru Tsukada (Tamagawa Univ.)
2 Theta Rhythm Selection in the Dentate Gyrus: Experiment and Simulation
Katsumi Tateno, Hatsuo Hayashi, Kohshi Nakashima, Satoru Ishizuka (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
3 Effects of Norepinephrine on Dynamic Behavior of a Cortical Neural Network
Osamu Hoshino (Oita Univ.)
4 Information Retrieval Based on a Neural-Network System with Continuous Attractors
Yukihiro Tsuboshita, Hiroshi Okamoto (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)
5 Generalized Self-Organizing Maps (mnSOM) for Dealing with Dynamical Systems
Tetsuo Furukawa, Kazuhiro Tokunaga, Syuji Kaneko, Kenji Kimotsuki, Syozo Yasui (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

We1-B
December 1  9:30-11:10 Room B
Analog and Digital Circuits

Chair: Tadashi Suetsugu (Fukuoka Univ.)

1 Neuromorphic Single-Electron Circuit and Its Application to Temporal-Domain Neural Competition
Takahide Oya, Tetsuya Asai, Ryo Kagaya, Tetsuya Hirose, Yoshihito Amemiya (Hokkaido Univ.)
2 Low-Voltage, Low-Distortion and Rail-to-Rail CMOS Sample and Hold Circuit
Koichi Tanno, Kiminobu Sato, Okihiko Ishizuka (Univ. of Miyazaki), Hisashi Tanaka (Miyakonojo National College of Tech.)
3 On the Modeling of Log-Domain LC Ladder Circuits
Alon Ascoli, Paul Curran, Orla Feely (Univ. College Dublin)
4 A Noise Reduction Method in Oscillators and PLL's, Analyzing Correlation between Low Frequency Phase and Amplitude Fluctuations in Distributed Network Model
Keiji Takagi (KIT Senior Academy)
5 A Chaos-Driven PLL Based Spread Spectrum Clock Generator
Luca Antonio De Michele (Univ. of Bologna), Fabio Pareschi (Univ. of Ferrara), Riccardo Rovatti (Univ. of Bologna), Gianluca Setti (Univ. of Ferrara)

We1-C
December 1  9:30-10:50 Room C
Control and Nonlinear Systems I

Chair: Keiji Konishi (Future Univ. - Hakodate)

1 Limit Cycle Oscillation of Induction Motor Drive and Control
Hongmei Li (Hefei Univ. of Tech.), Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto Univ.)
2 A Study on Multiple Steady States and their Relation to Global Structure in Time Delayed Feedback Controlled Duffing System
Kohei Yamasue, Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Control of Hyperchaos Using State Feedback
Yoshinori Egami (Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Co., Ltd.), Kenji Murao, Hideyasu Imagawa, Takayuki Akaboshi, Takehide Kojima (Univ. of Miyazaki)
4 H Fuzzy Filter for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Systems
Wudhichai Assawinchaichote (King Mongkut's Univ. of Tech. Thonburi), Sing Kiong Nguang (Univ. of Auckland), Peng Shi (Univ. of Glamorgan)

We1-D
December 1  9:30-10:30 Room D
Solitons and Integrable Systems

Chair: Takashi Hisakado (Kyoto Univ.)

1 A New Numerical Method to Solve Nonlinear PDEs
Takayuki Utsumi, James Koga (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst.)
2 Dissipative Solitons in the Discrete Complex Ginzburg-Landau Model
Ken-ichi Maruno (Kyushu Univ.), Adrian Ankiewicz, Nail Akhmediev (Australian National Univ.)
3 Extensions of Nonautonomous Nonlinear Integrable Systems to Higher Dimensions
Kouichi Toda (Toyama Prefectural Univ.), Tadashi Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ.)

We2-A
December 1  11:30-13:10 Room A
Brain Dynamics in Animals and Humans (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Tetsuo Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ.), Kazutoshi Gohara (Hokkaido Univ.)

1 Synaptic Enhancement Induced Dynamical Change of Functional Connections between Neurons in Living Neuronal Networks.
Suguru N. Kudoh (RICE, AIST/ PRESTO, JST), Takahisa Taguchi, Shunsuke Yuba (RICE, AIST)
2 Fractal-like Neural Representation in the Songbird Forebrain
Jun Nishikawa (RIKEN), Kazuo Okanoya (RIKEN / Chiba Univ. / PRESTO, JST)
3 Brain Waves and "Interactome"
Kiyohisa Natsume, Genki Ogata, Jun Arai (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
4 Fractal in Brain Dynamics
Kazutoshi Gohara (Hokkaido Univ.)
5 Neocortical Dynamics Detected by Steady-State Multisensory Evoked Neuromagnetic Fields
Tetsuo Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ.)

We2-B
December 1  11:30-12:50 Room B
Continuous-Discrete Systems Part II: Applications to Power Electronics (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.), Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.), Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba Univ.)

1 Design Procedure for Generalized Class E Amplifiers with Implicit Circuit Equations
Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba Univ.), Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa Univ.), Jianming Lu, Takashi Yahagi (Chiba Univ.)
2 Generation of Optimal Constrained Switching Pattern for Single-Phase Inverter
Stefano Santi, Marco Bassani, Riccardo Rovatti (Univ. of Bologna), Gianluca Setti (Univ. of Ferrara)
3 Modelling and Dynamics of a High Voltage DC-DC Converter: A Nonlinear Approach
Abdelali El Aroudi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Bruno Robert (Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
4 Bifurcations in a Boost PFC Circuit under Different Control Strategies
Abdelali El Aroudi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Mohamed Orabi (South-Valley Univ.), L. Martinez Salamero (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Tamotsu Ninomiya (Kyushu Univ.)

We2-C
December 1  11:30-12:50 Room C
Control and Nonlinear Systems II

Chair: Masaharu Kuroda (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.)

1 Application of Automatic Choosing Function Model and Genetic Algorithm for Hammerstein System Identification
Tomohiro Hachino, Hitoshi Takata (Kagoshima Univ.)
2 Design of Extremum Seeking Control Adding an Accelerator to Krstic Approach
Hitoshi Takata, Tomohiro Hachino (Kagoshima Univ.)
3 Design of Nonlinear Control Using Formal Linearization of Polynomial Type
Kazuo Komatsu (Kumamoto National College of Tech.), Hitoshi Takata (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 Sampled-Data Control of Nonlinear Systems Using State-Space Recursive Least Squares
Mohammad Bilal Malik, Khalid Munawar (National Univ. of Sciences and Tech.)

We2-D
December 1  11:30-12:50 Room D
Physics on Spatially Extended Systems

Chair: Kenichi Maruno (Kyushu Univ.)

1 A Binary-Quantized Two-Dimensional Cellular Array Model of Linear Diffusion Systems
Hisato Fujisaka, Daisuke Hamano, Takeshi Kamio (Hiroshima City Univ.)
2 Extended Scaling Laws in the Crossover between Ballistic and Normal Diffusion
Syuji Miyazaki (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Ionization in an Intense Laser Field
Takayuki Utsumi, James Koga (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst.)
4 Model for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction and Surface Flow Structure Induced by Chemical Concentration Gradients
Atsushi Nomura (Yamaguchi Univ.), Tatsunari Sakurai (Tokai Univ.), Hidetoshi Miike, Mitsuo Hano (Yamaguchi Univ.)

We3-A
December 1  14:40-16:00 Room A
Nonlinear Sensors and Sensory Processing (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

1 Acoustic Nonlinear Sensory Processing
Albert Kern, Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
2 Information Processing in Fractally Coupled Networks
Clemens Olivier Wagner (Univ. Bern), Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
3 Where Noise and Precision Join Forces: Coding of Neural Information via Limit Cycles
Ruedi Stoop, Jan-Jan Van der Vyver, Markus Christen, Albert Kern (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
4 Spike Train Clustering Using a Lempel-Ziv Distance Measure
Markus Christen, Thomas Ott, Ruedi Stoop (ETH)

We3-B
December 1  14:40-15:40 Room B
Continuous-Discrete Systems Part II: Applications to Power Electronics (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.), Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.), Hiroo Sekiya (Chiba Univ.)

1 EMI-Performance of DC-DC Converters - Criteria and Spectral Optimisation
Joerg Krupar, Andreas Moegel, Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
2 Subharmonic Oscillations Related to Switching Nonlinearity in TCR-SVC
Takashi Hikihara, Ryo Toyoshima, Tsuyoshi Funaki (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Design Equations for Optimum Operation of Class E Amplifier with Nonlinear Shunt Capacitance at Any Duty Cycle
Tadashi Suetsugu (Fukuoka Univ.), Marian Kazimierczuk (Wright State Univ.)

We3-C
December 1  14:40-16:00 Room C
Network Technology

Chair: Hisato Fujisaka (Hiroshima City Univ.)

1 Handoff Algorithm Based on Radial-Basis Function Networks in High Altitude Platform Station Cellular Systems
Sunisa Kunarak, Raungrong Suleesathira, Wudhichai Assawinchaichot (King Mongkut's Univ. of Tech. Thonburi)
2 Estimation of Network Configuration Based on the Genetic Programming and Delay Tomography
Yoshikazu Ikeda (Shinshu Univ.), Shozo Tokinaga, Jianjung Lu (Kyushu Univ.)
3 A Self-Organizing Approach to Measuring Long-Range Dependence of IP-Network Traffic Based on Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
Masao Masugi (NTT Corporation)
4 An Adaptive Optical Circuit with Self-Organizing Link
Toshiki Onishi, Wakao Sasaki (Doshisha Univ.)

We3-D
December 1  14:40-15:40 Room D
Nonlinear Economic Dynamics (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Akio Matsumoto (Chuo Univ.)

1 Determinantal Criterion of Hopf Bifurcations
Junichi Minagawa (Chuo Univ.)
2 Money Supply and Economic Fluctuations
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Nihon Univ.)
3 Global Dynamics in a Heterogeneous Duopoly Model with Noninvertible Maps
Yasuo Nonaka (Chuo Univ.)

We4-A
December 1  16:20-17:20 Room A
Nonlinear Sensors and Sensory Processing (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

1 The Stochastic Network Approach to Clustering
Thomas Ott (ETH / Univ. of Zurich), Willi-Hans Steeb (RAU Univ. Johannesburg), Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
2 Drosophila m. - Where Normal Males Tend to Be Female, and the Supermachos Are Fruitless
Benjamin I. Arthur (Zoological Museum / Univ. of Zurich), Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
3 Human-like Perception Using Sequential Superparamagnetic Clustering
Thomas Ott, Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

We4-B
December 1  16:20-18:20 Room B
Power Systems

Chair: Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.)

1 Transient Stability and Discontinuous Solution in Electric Power System with DC Transmission: A Study with DAE System
Yoshihiko Susuki, Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto Univ.), Hsiao-Dong Chiang (Cornell Univ.)
2 A Wavelet Approach to Finding Steady-State Power Electronics Waveforms Using Discrete Convolution
Kam C. Tam, Siu Chung Wong, Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 A Novel ∆ A/D Converter by Using Nonlinear Imperfect Differentiating Circuit without the Comparator
Osamu Kakita, Mizuki Motoyoshi, Masayuki Yamauchi (Sophia Univ.), Tsuyoshi Otake (Tamagawa Univ.), Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.)
4 A DC-AC Inverter Using Switched-Capacitor Techniques
Kei Eguchi, Toru Tabata (Kumamoto National College of Tech.), Hongbing Zhu (Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin Univ.), Fumio Ueno (Sojo Univ.), Takeshi Shimabukuro (Kumamoto National College of Tech.)
5 Design of a Ring-Type SC DC-DC Converter for Diode-Lamps in Cellular Phones
Kei Eguchi, Toru Tabata (Kumamoto National College of Tech.), Hongbing Zhu (Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin Univ.), Fumio Ueno (Sojo Univ.), Shou Mitsuishi (Kumamoto National College of Tech.)
6 A Charge-Average Type SC DC-DC Converter for Cellular Phones
Kei Eguchi, Toru Tabata (Kumamoto National College of Tech.), Hongbing Zhu (Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin Univ.), Fumio Ueno (Sojo Univ.), Masafumi Matsuo (Kumamoto National College of Tech.)

We4-C
December 1  16:20-18:20 Room C
Nonlinear Dynamics in Mechanical Systems (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Hiroshi Yabuno (Univ. of Tsukuba)

1 Lagrangian Formalism for Nonconservative Mechanical Systems with Nonholonomic Constraints
Hiroaki Yoshimura (Waseda Univ.)
2 Singular Value Analysis of Nonlinear Operators: Application to Hankel Operators
Kenji Fujimoto (Nagoya Univ.)
3 Stochastic Aspect of Noise-Induced Synchronization
Katsutoshi Yoshida, Keijin Sato (Utsunomiya Univ.)
4 Experimental Analysis of Flexibly Coupled Two Rotors
Yohta Kunitoh, Hiroshi Yabuno (Univ. of Tsukuba), Hossain Md. Zahid, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Yukio Ishida (Nagoya Univ.)
5 Spatiotemporal Wave Dynamics and Power-Law Scaling in Large Arrays of Fluid-Elastic Oscillators with Applied Impact Constraint
Masaharu Kuroda (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.), Ronald F. Clemens, Francis C. Moon (Cornell Univ.)
6 Nonlinear Lateral Vibration of a Fluid-Conveying Pipe with End Mass
Masatsugu Yoshizawa, Jun Agata (Keio Univ.), Kiyotaka Yamashita (Waseda Univ.), Masanobu Watanabe (TOSHIBA CORPORATIONS)

We4-D
December 1  16:20-18:20 Room D
Optimization / Monte Carlo Simulation

Chair: Norikazu Takahashi (Kyushu Univ.)

1 Non Zig-Zag Convergence of the Steepest Descent Method in Minimizing Non-Quadratic Form
Takashi Ozeki (Fukuyama Univ.)
2 Continuous Global Optimization Algorithm Using Lattice-Based Sampling and Topographical Multilevel Single Linkage
Hideo Kanemitsu, Hideaki Konno (Hokkaido Univ. of Education), Masaaki Miyakoshi (Hokkaido Univ.), Masaru Shimbo (Hokkaido Information Univ.)
3 Proposal of Improved Method for Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem
Atsushi Tanaka, Takanori Totsuka (Yamagata Univ.)
4 Neural Network Rule Extraction by Using the Genetic Programming and Its Applications
Yoshikazu Ikeda (Shinshu Univ.), Shozo Tokinaga, Jianjung Lu (Kyushu Univ.)
5 Active Update in Single Component MCMC for Discrete Variables
Shotaro Akaho, Kazuya Takabatake (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)
6 More Aggressive Updating than Gibbs Sampler
Kazuya Takabatake, Shotaro Akaho (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)

December 2, Thursday

Th1-A
December 2  9:30-11:10 Room A
Neuro Dynamics

Chair: Hatsuo Hayashi (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

1 A Simple Neuron Model with Memory of Firing
Kantaro Fujiwara, Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo)
2 Dynamical Modeling of the Biphasic GABA Actions
Kenji Morita (Univ. of Tokyo), Kunichika Tsumoto (ERATO, JST), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo / ERATO, JST)
3 Noise-Induced Metastability in the Hodgkin-Huxley Neural Network
Norihiro Katayama, Kazuhisa Sakamoto, Mitsuyuki Nakao, Mitsuaki Yamamoto (Tohoku Univ.)
4 The Role of Short Term Depression for Sustained Neural Activities in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Simulation Study
Yasunobu Igarashi, Yuichi Sakumura, Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech. )
5 Neuronal Correlates of Human Auditory Grouping: An ERP Study
Shin'ichiro Kanoh, Ryoko Futami (Tohoku Univ.), Nozomu Hoshimiya (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.)

Th1-B
December 2  9:30-10:50 Room B
Oscillation

Chair: Seiichiro Moro (Univ. of Fukui)

1 Slow-Fast Analysis of the Generation Mechanism of Bursting Oscillation in a Pancreatic Beta-Cell Cluster
Shinya Miyamoto, Shinji Doi, Sadatoshi Kumagai (Osaka Univ.)
2 Simple Chaotic Spiking Oscillators Having Piecewise Constant Characteristics
Yusuke Matsuoka, Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.)
3 Several Phase Synchronization Modes in Coupled Multi-State Chaotic Circuits
Masahiro Wada (Konan Univ.), Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.)
4 Experiments on Lorenz System
Ruy Barboza (Univ. of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos)

Th1-C
December 2  9:30-11:10 Room C
Nonlinear and Statistical Signal Processing (Special Session)

Organizer(s): Gianluca Setti (Univ. of Ferrara), Riccardo Rovatti (Univ. of Bologna), Gianluca Mazzini (Univ. of Ferrara)

1 Blinking Connections Enhance Locally Connected Networks
Martin Hasler, Igor Belykh (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)
2 Real-Time Classification Methods for Biological Tissues
Nicola Testoni, Luca De Marchi, Nicolò Speciale, Guido Masetti (Univ. of Bologna)
3 Exact Bit Error Rates of Multi-User Differential Chaos-Shift-Keying Communication Systems
Ji Yao, Anthony J Lawrance (Univ. of Birmingham)
4 New Directions in Coding: From Statistical Physics to Quasigroup String Transformations
Danilo Gligoroski, Smile Markovski, Ljupco Kocarev (Univ. of California San Diego)
5 Decay of Correlation of Soft Aggregations of Processes
Riccardo Rovatti (Univ. of Bologna), Gianluca Setti, Gianluca Mazzini (Univ. of Ferrara)

Th1-D
December 2  9:30-11:10 Room D
Image Processing and Coding

Chair: Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.)

1 Classification of Road Signs Using Shape Feature Coefficient and Color Rate for Simple Layered Neural Networks
Hirofumi Ohara, Akihiro Kanagawa, Hiromitsu Takahashi (Okayama Prefectural Univ.)
2 Lossless Image Coding Based on Nonlinear Lifting Scheme by Discrete Time Cellular Neural Networks
Kohei Kawakami, Hisashi Aomori (Sophia Univ.), Nobuaki Takahashi (IBM Japan, Ltd.), Tsuyoshi Otake (Tamagawa Univ.), Masayuki Yamauchi, Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.)
3 The Effectiveness of Discrete Voronoi Division in Fractal Image Compression
Takayasu Fuchida, Sadayuki Murashima (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 A New Approach for the Fingerprint Core Detection Using the Modified Relational Graph
Tomohiko Ohtsuka, Takeshi Takahashi (Tokyo National College of Tech.)
5 An Application of Automatic Differentiation to Photon Mapping for Efficient Image Synthesis with Global Illumination
Takuya Namae, Mitsunori Makino (Chuo Univ.)

Th2-A
December 2  11:30-12:30 Room A
Biological Systems

Chair: Shinji Doi (Osaka Univ.)

1 Designing Synthetic Gene Oscillators by Negative Feedback Networks
Ruiqi Wang, Tianshou Zhou, Luonan Chen (Osaka Sangyo Univ.)
2 Modeling Gene Expression Dynamics Based on a Linear Dynamical System Model
Naoto Yukinawa (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.), Jun-ichiro Yoshimoto (Okinawa Inst. of Science / Nara Institute of Science and Tech.), Shigeyuki Oba, Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.)
3 Modeling the SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong with Small World or Scale Free Networks
Michael Small, Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)

Th2-B
December 2  11:30-13:10 Room B
Coupled Oscillators

Chair: Hisa-Aki Tanaka (Univ. of Electro-Communications (UEC))

1 Amplitude Death Induced by a Global Dynamic Coupling
Keiji Konishi (Future Univ. - Hakodate)
2 Complex Behavior in Coupled Chaotic Circuits Related with Intermittency
Yoko Uwate, Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.)
3 Bifurcation and Transitional Dynamics in Asymmetrical Two-Coupled Oscillators with Hard-Type Nonlinearity
Takuya Yoshimura, Kuniyasu Shimizu, Tetsuro Endo (Meiji Univ.)
4 Bifurcation and Transitional Dynamics in Three-Coupled Oscillators with Hard Type Nonlinearity
Kuniyasu Shimizu, Tetsuro Endo, Naoki Matsumoto (Meiji Univ.)
5 A CMOS Reaction-Diffusion Device Using Minority-Carrier Diffusion in Seminonductors
Motoyoshi Takahashi, Takahide Oya, Tetsuya Hirose, Tetsuya Asai, Yoshihito Amemiya (Hokkaido Univ.)

Th2-C
December 2  11:30-13:10 Room C
Chaos and Statistics

Chair: Hiroshi Fujisaki (Kanazawa Univ.)

1 Qualities of the Chaotic Signal Generator for One-Time Password System
Koki Tada, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamata (Meiji Univ.)
2 Discrete Lyapunov Exponent for Rijndael Block Cipher
Ljupco Kocarev (Univ. of California San Diego), Paolo Amato, Davide Ruggiero, Imma Pedaci (STMicroelectronics)
3 2-D i.i.d. Binary Random Vectors Generated by Jacobian Elliptic Rational Map
Aya Kato, Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)
4 Properties of Level Crossing Intervals of the Chaotic Process Generated by the Logistic Map
Tsutomu Munakata (Tamagawa Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
5 On Statistical Properties of Modulo-p Added p-Ary Sequences
Akio Tsuneda (Kumamoto Univ.)

Th2-D
December 2  11:30-12:30 Room D
Signal Processing

Chair: Mitsunori Makino (Chuo Univ.)

1 Optimal FIR Filters for Sigma-Delta Modulated Signals
Ingo Wiemer, Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
2 A Novel Pre-Whitening Technique Using Scale-Free Estimation for Noisy Blind Signal Separation
Yoshio Konno (Sophia Univ.), Jianting Cao (Saitama Inst. of Tech.), Masayuki Yamauchi, Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.)
3 A Sparse Component Analysis Approach to EPR Spectra Decomposition
Chunqi Chang, Jiyun Ren, Peter C. W. Fung, Francis H. Y. Chan (Univ. of Hong Kong)

Th3-A
December 2  14:40-16:20 Room A
Associative Memory

Chair: Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.)

1 An Implementation of Optimum-Time Firing Squad Synchronization Algorithm on 1-Bit Cellular Automaton
Jun Nishimura (MegaChips), Hiroshi Umeo (Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication)
2 A Design Method of Cellular Neural Networks for Associative Memories Based on Linear Programming
Tsuyoshi Yamakawa, Norikazu Takahashi, Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.)
3 The Associative Ability of Homogeneous Neural Networks
Noritaka Shigei, Hiromi Miyajima, Shuji Yatsuki (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 Dynamical Properties of Associative Chaos Neural Network with Correlated Stored Patterns
Toshiya Iwai (Nihon Univ.), Fuminari Matsuzaki (Tohoku Univ.), Jousuke Kuroiwa (Univ. of Fukui), Shogo Miyake (Tohoku Univ.)
5 Chaos Associative Memory and Invariant Measure
Masahiro Nakagawa (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.)

Th3-B
December 2  14:40-16:20 Room B
Synchronization

Chair: Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.)

1 Long-Term Memory at the Onset of Noise-Induced Chaos Synchronization
Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Peter Davis, Jun Muramatsu (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
2 Coupling-Enhanced Deterministic Stochastic Resonance
Shin Mizutani (NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Kenichi Arai (NTT Service Integration Laboratories), Peter Davis (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
3 Basins of Attraction of Phase Patterns in Pulse-Driven Star-Coupled Wien-Bridge Oscillators with Parameter Deviations
Seiichiro Moro (Univ. of Fukui), Tadashi Matsumoto (Fukui Univ. of Tech.)
4 A Novel Design of One-Sided Recursive Firing Squad Synchronization Algorithms for One-Dimensional Cellular Arrays
Hayato Yanase, Masaya Hisaoka, Hiroshi Umeo (Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication)
5 Comparative Study of Entrainment in Circadian Clock Systems
Hisa-Aki Tanaka, Tomoki Maegawa (Univ. of Electro-Communications (UEC))

Th3-C
December 2  14:40-16:20 Room C
Chaos and Communications

Chair: Akio Tsuneda (Kumamoto Univ.)

1 A Chaos-Based Error Detection Code for Data Communication
H. S. Kwok, Wallace K. S. Tang (City Univ. of Hong Kong)
2 Analysis of Performance of Noncoherent DCSK Communication Systems over a Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channel with Delay Spread
Yongxiang Xia, Chi K. Tse, Francis C. M. Lau (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Performance of FM-DCSK Communication System over a Multipath Fading Channel with Delay Spread
Yongxiang Xia, Chi K. Tse, Francis C. M. Lau (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Geza Kolumban (Budapest Univ. of Tech. and Economics)
4 Code Acquisition in Asynchronous DS/CDMA Systems, Markov and i.i.d. Codes in Multiuser Scenario
Tahir Abbas Khan (Kyushu Univ.), Nobuoki Eshima (Oita Univ.), Yutaka Jitsumatsu, Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)
5 Superiority of Markovian Spreading Sequences in Code Acquisition Performance
Yutaka Jitsumatsu, Nobuoki Eshima, Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)

Th4-P
December 2  16:40-17:55 Large Conference Room
Plenary Talk II

Chair: Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto Univ.)

1 Optimal Decisions: From Neural Spikes, through Stochastic Differential Equations, to Behavior
Philip Holmes (Princeton Univ.)

December 3, Friday

Fr1-A
December 3  9:30-10:50 Room A
Learning

Chair: Shotaro Akaho (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)

1 A GA-Based Fault-Containment Learning Algorithm for Binary Neural Networks
Takashi Yamamichi, Toshimichi Saito, Hiroyuki Torikai (Hosei Univ.)
2 Character String Extraction from Color Documents Using Supervised Learning
Takeshi Ogura (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.), Fumihiro Hasegawa (RICOH Company Ltd.), Shigeyuki Oba (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.), Toshio Miyazawa (RICOH Company Ltd.), Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech. / CREST, JST)
3 An Efficient Decomposition Learning Method for Support Vector Regression
Masashi Kuranoshita, Norikazu Takahashi, Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.)
4 An Approach to the TSP Based on Growing Self-Organizing Maps
Takeshi Ehara (Hosei Univ.), Hiroki Sasamura (Pentax co. ltd.), Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.)

Fr1-B
December 3  9:30-10:30 Room B
Chaos and Bifurcation

Chair: Kenji Murao (Univ. of Miyazaki)

1 On the Bifurcation Properties of Perturbed First-Order Differentiable Maps
Barry O'Donnell, Paul Curran, Orla Feely (Univ. College Dublin)
2 Neuronal Chaos with Very Long Inter-Spike Intervals near the Hopf Bifurcation of an Equilibrium Point
Shinji Doi, Sadatoshi Kumagai (Osaka Univ.)
3 Algorithm for Convergence to Superstable Periodic Solutions of the Logistic Map
Hiroyasu Andoh (Univ. of Tokyo), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo / ERATO, JST)

Fr1-C
December 3  9:30-11:30 Room C
Chaos Generation and Sequences

Chair: Yasutada Oohama (Kyushu Univ.)

1 Chaotic Signal Generation Using Orthogonal Functions for Spread Spectrum Communications
Yoshihiro Chatani, Kohei Okamoto, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamata (Meiji Univ.)
2 Pseudorandom Orthogonal Sequences Based on Hadamard Matrix and their Correlation Properties
Tetsu Kondou, Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda, Takahiro Inoue (Kumamoto Univ.)
3 A Design of Line Codes Based on Chaos Maps and their Performance in Bandlimited Spread Spectrum Transmission
Kenshi Oobuchi, Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda, Takahiro Inoue (Kumamoto Univ.)
4 Equivalence of Periodic Sequences Generated by Bernoulli and Tent Maps with Finite Bits
Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda, Takahiro Inoue (Kumamoto Univ.)
5 Discretized Markov Transformations -- An Example of Ultradiscrete Dynamical Systems --
Hiroshi Fujisaki (Kanazawa Univ.)
6 Mixing Property for Markov Chains Generating Spreading Sequences
Hiroshi Fujisaki (Kanazawa Univ.)