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

Table of Contents

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 1
Suguru Arimoto (Ritsumeikan 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 15
Philip Holmes (Princeton Univ.)

Tu2-A, Tu3-A
November 30  11:30-12:50, 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 Hierarchical Encoding of Faces and Its Neuronal Mechanism in the Inferior-Temporal Cortex 19
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 23
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 27
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 31
Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN)
5 Dependence of Neural Ergodicity on Noise Strength 35
Naoki Masuda (RIKEN), Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo)
6 Modelling Phase-Locking in Electrically-Coupled Networks of Inhibitory Cortical Interneurons 39
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)
7 Phase and Frequency Locking in Detailed Neuron Models 43
Ruedi Stoop, Jonas Buchli, Markus Christen (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

Tu2-B, Tu3-B
November 30  11:30-12:50, 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 Synthesis and Analysis of Piecewise-Constant Systems with Sampled-Data Feedbacks 47
Tadashi Tsubone, Noriyoshi Kambayashi (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.)
2 Bifurcation of the Chaotic Attractor in a Simple Piecewise Smooth Systems 51
Takuji Kousaka, Masahiko Mori (Fukuyama Univ.), Yue Ma (Tokushima Univ.)
3 Continuous-Discrete Systems - Modelling and Statistical Analysis 55
Joerg Krupar, Andreas Moegel, Wolfgang Schwarz (Techische Universitaet Dresden)
4 General Consideration for Modelling and Analyzing Switched Dynamical Systems 59
Yue Ma (Tokushima Univ.), Takuji Kousaka (Fukuyama Univ.), Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Hiroshi Kawakami (Tokushima Univ.)
5 Analysis of Discretely Controlled Switched Positive Systems 63
Jan Lunze, Stanley I. Kamau (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum)
6 Symbolic Analysis: A Practical Alternative Viewpoint of Border Collision 67
Chi K. Tse, Dong Dai (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
7 Analysis of Piecewise Constant Models of Power Converters 71
Takahiro Kabe, Toshimichi Saito, Hiroyuki Torikai (Hosei 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 75
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 79
Koichi Osuka (Kobe Univ.), Yasuhiro Sugimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Ballistic Control for Biped Walking with Pneumatic Actuators 83
Koh Hosoda, Takashi Takuma (Osaka Univ.)
4 Slimebot: A Modular Robot That Exploits Emergent Phenomena 87
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 91
Kazuo Horiuchi (Waseda Univ.)
2 Fuzzy Reasoning Models with Different Error Measure Criteria 95
Shinya Fukumoto, Hiromi Miyajima, Yoji Nagasawa (Kagoshima Univ.)
3 The Application of Fuzzy Automata to Medical Signal Processing 99
Jelena Ficzko, Miha Mraz, Iztok Lebar Bajec, Nikolaj Zimic (Univ. of Ljubljana)

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 103
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 107
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 111
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 115
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 119
Gerard Gouesbet, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel (CNRS, Universite et Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Rouen)
2 Attractor Trajectory Surrogates: Hypothesis Testing and Prediction 123
Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Estimating a Generating Partition from a Time Series: Symbolic Shadowing 127
Yoshito Hirata, Kevin Judd (Univ. of Western Australia)
4 Spatiotemporal Kalman Filtering: A New Approach to Solving Dynamical Inverse Problems 131
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 135
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 139
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 143
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 147
Jonathan H. B. Deane (Univ. of Surrey)
3 Existence of Horseshoes in Current-Mode Controlled Boost Converters 151
Dong Dai, Chi K. Tse (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
4 Nonlinear Dynamics of Charge Pump Phase-Locked Loops 155
Raymond Louis Flynn, Paul Curran, Orla Feely (Univ. College Dublin)
5 Nonlinear Dynamics of the RL-Varactor Circuit in the Depletion Region 159
Jonathan H. B. Deane, Luke Marsh (Univ. of Surrey)
6 On the Steady State Behaviour of a Class of Non-Linear Mappings 163
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 167
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 171
Yuchi Kanzawa (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.), Shin'ichi Oishi (Waseda Univ.)
3 Detection of Periodic Oscillations Using Homotopy with Complex State Variables 175
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 179
Kiyotaka Yamamura, Akinori Machida (Chuo Univ.)
5 The Generalized DC Analysis of PWL Circuits by Means of Polyhedral Circuits 183
Stefano Pastore (Universita' di Trieste)
6 Element-Value Determination with Measurement Errors 187
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 191
David Mcpetrie Walker, Glenn Marion (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
2 Modelling for Nonlinear Time Series Using Improved Least Squares Method 195
Tomomichi Nakamura, Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
3 Reliable Correlation Dimension Estimation Method for Analyzing Two-Phase Flow 199
Akio Suzuki, Masaki Misawa (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech.)
4 Identifying Dependencies among Multivariate Time Series 203
Oscar De Feo, Cristian Carmeli (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)
5 Looking for Nonlinearity in the Dynamics of Surface Wind Using Surrogate Data 207
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 211
Xiaodong Luo, Tomomichi Nakamura, Michael Small (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)

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 215
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 219
Katsumi Tateno, Hatsuo Hayashi, Kohshi Nakashima, Satoru Ishizuka (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
3 Effects of Norepinephrine on Dynamic Behavior of a Cortical Neural Network 223
Osamu Hoshino (Oita Univ.)
4 Information Retrieval Based on a Neural-Network System with Continuous Attractors 227
Yukihiro Tsuboshita, Hiroshi Okamoto (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)
5 Generalized Self-Organizing Maps (mnSOM) for Dealing with Dynamical Systems 231
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 235
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 239
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 243
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 247
Keiji Takagi (KIT Senior Academy)
5 A Chaos-Driven PLL Based Spread Spectrum Clock Generator 251
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 255
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 259
Kohei Yamasue, Takashi Hikihara (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Control of Hyperchaos Using State Feedback 263
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 267
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 271
Takayuki Utsumi, James Koga (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst.)
2 Dissipative Solitons in the Discrete Complex Ginzburg-Landau Model 275
Ken-ichi Maruno (Kyushu Univ.), Adrian Ankiewicz, Nail Akhmediev (Australian National Univ.)
3 Extensions of Nonautonomous Nonlinear Integrable Systems to Higher Dimensions 279
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. 283
Suguru N. Kudoh (RICE, AIST/ PRESTO, JST), Takahisa Taguchi, Shunsuke Yuba (RICE, AIST)
2 Fractal-like Neural Representation in the Songbird Forebrain 287
Jun Nishikawa (RIKEN), Kazuo Okanoya (RIKEN / Chiba Univ. / PRESTO, JST)
3 Brain Waves and "Interactome" 291
Kiyohisa Natsume, Genki Ogata, Jun Arai (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
4 Fractal in Brain Dynamics 295
Kazutoshi Gohara (Hokkaido Univ.)
5 Neocortical Dynamics Detected by Steady-State Multisensory Evoked Neuromagnetic Fields 299
Tetsuo Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ.)

We2-B, We3-B
December 1  11:30-12:50, 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 Design Procedure for Generalized Class E Amplifiers with Implicit Circuit Equations 303
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 307
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 311
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 317
Abdelali El Aroudi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Mohamed Orabi (South-Valley Univ.), L. Martinez Salamero (Universitat Rovira i Virgili ), Tamotsu Ninomiya (Kyushu Univ.)
5 EMI-Performance of DC-DC Converters - Criteria and Spectral Optimisation 323
Joerg Krupar, Andreas Moegel, Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
6 Subharmonic Oscillations Related to Switching Nonlinearity in TCR-SVC 327
Takashi Hikihara, Ryo Toyoshima, Tsuyoshi Funaki (Kyoto Univ.)
7 Design Equations for Optimum Operation of Class E Amplifier with Nonlinear Shunt Capacitance at Any Duty Cycle 331
Tadashi Suetsugu (Fukuoka Univ.), Marian Kazimierczuk (Wright State 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 335
Tomohiro Hachino, Hitoshi Takata (Kagoshima Univ.)
2 Design of Extremum Seeking Control Adding an Accelerator to Krstic Approach 339
Hitoshi Takata, Tomohiro Hachino (Kagoshima Univ.)
3 Design of Nonlinear Control Using Formal Linearization of Polynomial Type 343
Kazuo Komatsu (Kumamoto National College of Tech.), Hitoshi Takata (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 Sampled-Data Control of Nonlinear Systems Using State-Space Recursive Least Squares 347
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 351
Hisato Fujisaka, Daisuke Hamano, Takeshi Kamio (Hiroshima City Univ.)
2 Extended Scaling Laws in the Crossover between Ballistic and Normal Diffusion 355
Syuji Miyazaki (Kyoto Univ.)
3 Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Ionization in an Intense Laser Field 359
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 363
Atsushi Nomura (Yamaguchi Univ.), Tatsunari Sakurai (Tokai Univ.), Hidetoshi Miike, Mitsuo Hano (Yamaguchi Univ.)

We3-A, We4-A
December 1  14:40-16:00, 16:20-17:20 Room A
Nonlinear Sensors and Sensory Processing (Special Session)

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

1 Acoustic Nonlinear Sensory Processing 367
Albert Kern, Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
2 Information Processing in Fractally Coupled Networks 371
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 375
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 379
Markus Christen, Thomas Ott, Ruedi Stoop (ETH)
5 The Stochastic Network Approach to Clustering 383
Thomas Ott (ETH / Univ. of Zurich), Willi-Hans Steeb (RAU Univ. Johannesburg), Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
6 Drosophila m. - Where Normal Males Tend to Be Female, and the Supermachos Are Fruitless 387
Benjamin I. Arthur (Zoological Museum / Univ. of Zurich), Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)
7 Human-like Perception Using Sequential Superparamagnetic Clustering 391
Thomas Ott, Ruedi Stoop (ETH / Univ. of Zurich)

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 395
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 399
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 403
Masao Masugi (NTT Corporation)
4 An Adaptive Optical Circuit with Self-Organizing Link 407
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 411
Junichi Minagawa (Chuo Univ.)
2 Money Supply and Economic Fluctuations 415
Hiroyuki Yoshida (Nihon Univ.)
3 Global Dynamics in a Heterogeneous Duopoly Model with Noninvertible Maps 419
Yasuo Nonaka (Chuo Univ.)

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 423
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 427
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 431
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 435
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 439
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 443
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 447
Hiroaki Yoshimura (Waseda Univ.)
2 Singular Value Analysis of Nonlinear Operators: Application to Hankel Operators 451
Kenji Fujimoto (Nagoya Univ.)
3 Stochastic Aspect of Noise-Induced Synchronization 457
Katsutoshi Yoshida, Keijin Sato (Utsunomiya Univ.)
4 Experimental Analysis of Flexibly Coupled Two Rotors 461
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 465
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 469
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 473
Takashi Ozeki (Fukuyama Univ.)
2 Continuous Global Optimization Algorithm Using Lattice-Based Sampling and Topographical Multilevel Single Linkage 477
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 481
Atsushi Tanaka, Takanori Totsuka (Yamagata Univ.)
4 Neural Network Rule Extraction by Using the Genetic Programming and Its Applications 485
Yoshikazu Ikeda (Shinshu Univ.), Shozo Tokinaga, Jianjung Lu (Kyushu Univ.)
5 Active Update in Single Component MCMC for Discrete Variables 489
Shotaro Akaho, Kazuya Takabatake (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)
6 More Aggressive Updating than Gibbs Sampler 493
Kazuya Takabatake, Shotaro Akaho (Neuroscience Research Inst., AIST)

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 497
Kantaro Fujiwara, Kazuyuki Aihara (Univ. of Tokyo)
2 Dynamical Modeling of the Biphasic GABA Actions 501
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 505
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 509
Yasunobu Igarashi, Yuichi Sakumura, Shin Ishii (Nara Inst. of Science and Tech. )
5 Neuronal Correlates of Human Auditory Grouping: An ERP Study 513
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 517
Shinya Miyamoto, Shinji Doi, Sadatoshi Kumagai (Osaka Univ.)
2 Simple Chaotic Spiking Oscillators Having Piecewise Constant Characteristics 521
Yusuke Matsuoka, Toshimichi Saito (Hosei Univ.)
3 Several Phase Synchronization Modes in Coupled Multi-State Chaotic Circuits 525
Masahiro Wada (Konan Univ.), Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.)
4 Experiments on Lorenz System 529
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 533
Martin Hasler, Igor Belykh (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)
2 Real-Time Classification Methods for Biological Tissues 537
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 541
Ji Yao, Anthony J Lawrance (Univ. of Birmingham)
4 New Directions in Coding: From Statistical Physics to Quasigroup String Transformations 545
Danilo Gligoroski, Smile Markovski, Ljupco Kocarev (Univ. of California San Diego)
5 Decay of Correlation of Soft Aggregations of Processes 549
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 553
Hirofumi Ohara, Akihiro Kanagawa, Hiromitsu Takahashi (Okayama Prefectural Univ.)
2 Lossless Image Coding Based on Nonlinear Lifting Scheme by Discrete Time Cellular Neural Networks 557
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 561
Takayasu Fuchida, Sadayuki Murashima (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 A New Approach for the Fingerprint Core Detection Using the Modified Relational Graph 565
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 569
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 573
Ruiqi Wang, Tianshou Zhou, Luonan Chen (Osaka Sangyo Univ.)
2 Modeling Gene Expression Dynamics Based on a Linear Dynamical System Model 577
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 581
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 585
Keiji Konishi (Future Univ. - Hakodate)
2 Complex Behavior in Coupled Chaotic Circuits Related with Intermittency 589
Yoko Uwate, Yoshifumi Nishio (Tokushima Univ.)
3 Bifurcation and Transitional Dynamics in Asymmetrical Two-Coupled Oscillators with Hard-Type Nonlinearity 593
Takuya Yoshimura, Kuniyasu Shimizu, Tetsuro Endo (Meiji Univ.)
4 Bifurcation and Transitional Dynamics in Three-Coupled Oscillators with Hard Type Nonlinearity 597
Kuniyasu Shimizu, Tetsuro Endo, Naoki Matsumoto (Meiji Univ.)
5 A CMOS Reaction-Diffusion Device Using Minority-Carrier Diffusion in Seminonductors 601
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 605
Koki Tada, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamata (Meiji Univ.)
2 Discrete Lyapunov Exponent for Rijndael Block Cipher 609
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 613
Aya Kato, Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)
4 Properties of Level Crossing Intervals of the Chaotic Process Generated by the Logistic Map 617
Tsutomu Munakata (Tamagawa Univ.), Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
5 On Statistical Properties of Modulo-p Added p-Ary Sequences 621
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 625
Ingo Wiemer, Wolfgang Schwarz (Dresden Univ. of Tech.)
2 A Novel Pre-Whitening Technique Using Scale-Free Estimation for Noisy Blind Signal Separation 629
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 633
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 637
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 641
Tsuyoshi Yamakawa, Norikazu Takahashi, Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.)
3 The Associative Ability of Homogeneous Neural Networks 645
Noritaka Shigei, Hiromi Miyajima, Shuji Yatsuki (Kagoshima Univ.)
4 Dynamical Properties of Associative Chaos Neural Network with Correlated Stored Patterns 649
Toshiya Iwai (Nihon Univ.), Fuminari Matsuzaki (Tohoku Univ.), Jousuke Kuroiwa (Univ. of Fukui), Shogo Miyake (Tohoku Univ.)
5 Chaos Associative Memory and Invariant Measure 653
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 657
Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Peter Davis, Jun Muramatsu (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
2 Coupling-Enhanced Deterministic Stochastic Resonance 661
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 665
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 669
Hayato Yanase, Masaya Hisaoka, Hiroshi Umeo (Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication)
5 Comparative Study of Entrainment in Circadian Clock Systems 673
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 677
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 681
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 685
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 689
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 693
Yutaka Jitsumatsu, Nobuoki Eshima, Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.)

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 697
Takashi Yamamichi, Toshimichi Saito, Hiroyuki Torikai (Hosei Univ.)
2 Character String Extraction from Color Documents Using Supervised Learning 701
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 705
Masashi Kuranoshita, Norikazu Takahashi, Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.)
4 An Approach to the TSP Based on Growing Self-Organizing Maps 709
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 713
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 717
Shinji Doi, Sadatoshi Kumagai (Osaka Univ.)
3 Algorithm for Convergence to Superstable Periodic Solutions of the Logistic Map 721
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 725
Yoshihiro Chatani, Kohei Okamoto, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamata (Meiji Univ.)
2 Pseudorandom Orthogonal Sequences Based on Hadamard Matrix and their Correlation Properties 729
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 733
Kenshi Oobuchi, Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda, Takahiro Inoue (Kumamoto Univ.)
4 Equivalence of Periodic Sequences Generated by Bernoulli and Tent Maps with Finite Bits 737
Daisaburo Yoshioka, Akio Tsuneda, Takahiro Inoue (Kumamoto Univ.)
5 Discretized Markov Transformations -- An Example of Ultradiscrete Dynamical Systems -- 741
Hiroshi Fujisaki (Kanazawa Univ.)
6 Mixing Property for Markov Chains Generating Spreading Sequences 745
Hiroshi Fujisaki (Kanazawa Univ.)