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Second-order regular and singular state space systems George Antoniou Chaos and complexity in nonlinear circuits: Dynamic properties and generation of strange attractors
Donato Cafagna, Giuseppe Grassi

Delay-dependent stability and alpha-stability criterions for linear time-delay system Elbrous M. Jafarov Combined approach to symbolic approximation Zdenek Kolka, Martin Vlk Use of probabilistic multiple carries to enhance the performance of a 32-bit asynchronous estimated carry adder E.M. Ashmila, S.S. Dlay, O.R. Hinton Generalized reference state model of piecewise-linear dynamical systems Jiri Pospisil, Zdenek Kolka, Stanislav Hanus, Jaromir Brzobohaty A Practical method to reconstruct the states and parameters of the Chua's system based on successive integrations of the output Miguel S. Suarez Castaon, Carlos Aguilar Ibanez Linearizing l-order generalized systems M. Isabel Garcia-Planas Fault detection and identification through variance of wavelet transform of system outputs G. D. Gonzalez, G. Ceballos, R. Paut, D. Miranda, P. La Rosa An integrated systems approach to monitoring and control of complex industrial processes Yingchuan Zhang, D. Britton, Yong Zhang, B. Heck and G. Vachtsevanos On the motion control of unmanned skid steering vehicles Lefteris Doitsidis, Kimon Valavanis, Nikos Tsourveloudis A closed-form representation of the solution of the Riccati Differential Equation Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis Peculiarities of spacecraft Ocean-O control in geomagnetic storms Udaloy Valeriy Alekseevich, Ivanov Nikolay Mihailovich, Sokolov Nikolay Leonidovich, Pazdnikov Vladimir Urievich

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Fundamental principles of safety related system design Gerhard H. Schildt, Daniela Kahn Sufficient conditions for optimal control problems with state constraints Elzbieta Gakewska, Andrzej Nowakowski Non-linear control of motion of underwater robotic vehicle in vertical plane Jerzy Garus Robust position and tracking variable structure PD-controllers design methods for robot manipulators with parameter perturbations M. N. A. Parlakci, E. M. Jafarov, Y. Istefanopulos A model evaluation of a wavelet based multiresolution image data coding Vincenzo Di Lecce, Andrea Guerriero, Sebastiano Impedovo An accelerated Papoulis-Gerchberg algorithm Benjamin G. Salomon, Hanoch Ur Tracking time-varying channels with adaptive step-size transform domain LMS algorithm Radu Ciprian Bilcu, Pauli Kuosmanen, Karen Egiazarian Accurate sampling of the instantaneous value of fast periodic signals Alessandro Bogliolo A feedforward compensation scheme for perfect decoupling of measurable signals Giovanni Marro, Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis Change detection method with application in vibrating structures analysis Theodor Popescu Condition number for reliable microwave transistors modeling Wahid Bejaoui, Fethi Choubani, Ammar Bouallegue Predictive multi-mode quantizer structure for parametric speech coding systems Jani Nurminen, Ari Heikkinen, Jukka Saarinen Importance of the color in the cave maps and the imposed limitations for the light of acetylene electromagnetic spectrum Jesus Irigoyen, Jose-Carlos Martinez, Eloina Coll, Jose Herraez Shape analysis and classification in the identification of colon texture images Khaled Marghani, Satnam Dlay, Andrew Sims, Bayan Sharif New construction of complete complementary arrays with applications to image watermarking Said E. El-Khamy, Mohamed A. Mokhtar, and Noha O. El-Ganainy

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Color images segmentation using the Support Vector Machines H. Gomez, P. Gil, S. Lafuente, R. Vicen, R. Snchez Face detection in color image using multiclassifier Jie Wang, Konstantinos Plataniotis, Anastasios Venetsanopoulos Steganography detection of whole-image-DCT-based watermarking in gray-scale images Sui Song, Dekun Zou, Constantine Manikopoulos, Yun-Qing Shi A study on real time pitch alteration of speech signal YoungHun Jung, JongKuk Kim, WangRae Jo, MyungJin Bae Performance study of hierarchical video-on-demand (VoD) systems for layered videos in broadcast environment W. F. Poon, K.T. Lo Development of awareness driven 3D videoconferencing applications Mojtaba Hosseini, Steve Pettifer, Nicolas D. Georganas SALM: a scalable application layer multicast protocol Panayotis Fouliras, Athanasios Manitsaris, Spiros Xanthos Transparency reduction algorithms for 3D-DCT encoders and decoders Tomas Fryza, Stanislav Hanus A fast novel motion estimation for video coding using logarithmic diagonal search algorithm Somphob Soongsathitanon, Santam S. Dlay A flow management scheme for multimedia traffic for high-speed network based on statistical Weibull distribution A. Sharifinejad Background behavior analysis in video sequences P. Gil-Jimenez, S. Lafuente, R. Vicen, R. Sanchez, R. Gil-Pita A decision fusion framework for content-based image retrieval Panagiotis Androutsos, Azadeh Kushki, Konstantinos Plataniotis, Anastasios Venetsanopoulos Parameter analysis of Morlet wavelet transform based edge detection Liming Zhang, Tao Qian On a reduction of computation time of FFT cepstrum WangRae Jo, JongKuk Kim, YoungHun Jung, MyungJin Bae Combined methods for image compression Ernesto Saavedra, Adolf Grauel, Danny Morton

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Static compaction for sequential circuits by reassembling test subsequences Michael Dimopoulos, Panagiotis Linardis Computational geometry algorithms in an educational intelligent scenario management system Marios Poulos, Vasilios Belessiotis, Nikolaos Alexandris, Vasilios Chrissikopoulos

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Comparison between computational geometry and coherence methods applied to the 247 EEG for medical diagnostic purposes Marios Poulos, Nikolaos Alexandris, Vasilios Belessiotis, Emmanouil Magkos On multi-agent fault diagnosis Nadim Obeid Improved selection of test subsequences in sequential circuits for reduced power consumption Michael Dimopoulos, Panagiotis Linardis 252

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Compacting test sequences for sequential circuits by applying set covering techniques 263 Michael Dimopoulos, Panagiotis Linardis Development of a model and simulation in Decision Making Process Franjo Jovic, Ninoslav Slavek, Damir Blazevic Hierarchical co-evolution for non-routine design Mike Rosenman and Rob Saunders Methods of heuristic search in a hypothetical delivery company Alberto Perez Alonso Towards a formalization of collective decision-making and learning Nadim Obeid Unknown attribute value processing by hierarchical background tree Ivan Bruha Maintenance of case bases through pruning and learning Costas Tsatsoulis, Ping Yang Optimisation by clonal selection principles M. Koester, A. Grauel, H. Convey An Augmented-Commerce Environment for Real World Retail Applications Orlando Belo, Antnio Ribeiro, Jorge Santos 271

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Influence of activation function for quality of ship's motion modelling using artificial 315 neural networks Bogdan Zak, Zygmunt Kitowski

Locally-connected neural networks: Stability analysis and synthesis technique Giuseppe Grassi, Donato Cafagna Text-to-phoneme mapping using a fast neural network with adaptive learning rate Eniko Beatrice Bilcu, Janne Suontausta, Jukka Saarinen A neural network based human machine interactive system M. Srinivasan, W.L. Woo, S.S. Dlay Improving performance of neural network models for intrusion detection using singular value decomposition Ohm Sornil, Jessada Kajornrit A new approach to designing fuzzy systems Leszek Rutkowski, Krzysztof Cpalka Inverse modelling of the mass transfer process in the RDC column by fuzzy approach N.Maan, J.Talib, K.A.Arshad, T. Ahmad Data driven modeling using descriptive Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems Ingo Renners, Adolf Grauel Feature selection for clustering based fuzzy modeling A. Chong, T.D. Gedeon, L.T. Koczy Modelling interdependent critical infrastructure Roberto Setola, Giovanni Ulivi

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