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Computers ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING List of Contents, Author and Key Word Index Volume 22, 1996 Computers & Electrical Engineering An International Journal editor Mo Jamshidi: AT&T Professor and Director, NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering, EECE Building, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. 7e/: (+1) 505-277-5538, Fax: (+1) 505-277-1439 or 505-291-0013, E-mai/: [email protected], WWW: http://ace.unm.edu editorial office Karen Koletar: NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering, EECE Building, University of | New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. Je/: (+1) 505-277-9737, Fax: (+1) 505-277-1439 or , (+1) 505-291-0013, E-mai/: [email protected] . founding editor John B. Slaughter: President, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041, U.S.A. : editorial advisory board K. Furuta Tokyo, Japan F. Reza Ottawa, Canada M. Gupta Saskatchewan, Sask., Canada J. R. Rowland Lawrence, KS, U.S.A. N. A. Kheir Rochester, MI, U.S.A. A. P. Sage Fairfax, VA, U.S.A. R. Lumia Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A. H. W. Sorenson La Jolla, CA, U.S.A. M. Malek Middletown, NJ, U.S.A. A. Titli Toulouse, France M. Mansour Zurich, Switzerland H. Unbehauen Bochum, Germany D. A. Pierre Bozeman, MT, U.S.A. L. A. Zadeh Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. board of associate editors A. 1. Abdullah Al-Ain, UAE H. A. Kalhor New Paltz, NY, U.S.A. M. Ahmadi Windsor, Ont., Canada C. C. Nguyen Washington, DC, U.S.A. M. Aldeen Melbourne, Australia M.S. Obaidat New York, NY, U.S.A. F. Aminzadeh Anaheim, CA, U.S.A. R. V. Patel Stillwater, OK, U.S.A. N. Bagherzadeh Irvine, CA, U.S.A. M. Roggemann Kirtland AFB, NM, U.S.A. S. Erfani Middletown, NJ, U.S.A. F. M. Salam _ East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. M. Etezadi Reno, NV, U.S.A. M.E. Sezer Ankara, Turkey P. Groumpos Patras, Greece These Boards are being expanded to include representatives from various areas of computers and electrical engineering. 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Postmaster: Please send address corrections to Computers & Electrical Engineering, c/o Elsevier Science Regional Sales Office, Customer Support Department, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10010, U.S.A. [7e/: (+1) 212-633-3730/1-888 4ES-INFO. Fax: (+1) 212-633-3680. E-mai/: [email protected]]. LIST OF CONTENTS NUMBER 1 JoAnn M. Paul and Three-dimensional computational wavefronts for matrix Marlin H. Mickle product S. V. Narasimhan and Application of LMS adaptive predictive filtering for D. Narayana Dutt muscle artifact (noise) cancellation from EEG signals Giridhar Mandyam On Laguerre expansions and systolic arrays and Nasir Ahmed A. Kavianpour Sequential diagnosability of star graphs Marco Ariano An intelligent order entry and dynamic bill of materials and Aldo Dagnino system for manufacturing customized furniture L. Fortuna, G. Manganaro, Parallel simulation of cellular neural networks G. Muscato and G. Nunnari NUMBER 2 W. M. Zuberek Modular circuit simulation with integrated applications Gerhard W. Dueck A heat quench algorithm for the minimization of multiple- and Jon T. Butler valued programmable logic arrays Paul S. Wu, H. Y. Tam and Hybrid assembly: a strategy for expanding the role of Patri K. Venuvinod “advanced” assembly technology A. Nishi Development of wall-climbing robots S. Kleinsteuber and N. Sepehri A polynomial network modeling approach to a class of large-scale hydraulic systems Mustahsan Mir and Analytic annealing for macrocell placement optimization M. Hasan Imam NUMBER 3 Marcos Carneiro da Silva, Long-range planning of power distribution systems: Paulo Morelato Franca and secondary networks Paulo D. Bishop da Silveira B. Bahr, Y. Li and M. Najafi Design and suction cup analysis of a wall climbing robot Kung Chris Wu Fuzzy interval control of mobile robots Shih-Ho Wang and Randy Zachery Singular value decomposition of system input-output matrix and its symmetry property Ill Contents NUMBER 4 S. Shoari and N. Bagherzadeh Computation of the fast Fourier transform on the star-connected cycle networks Masoud Salehi Improved computational efficiency in derivation of capacity regions in network information theory Ferial El-Hawary Dynamic heave compensation using robust estimation and G. A. N. Mbamalu techniques A. A. Ismaeel, R. Mathew Structurally self-testable data path synthesis of and T. John application specific integrated circuits NUMBER 5 Chengshan Xiao 2-D weighted impulse response Gramians and model reduction of 2-D separable denominator digital systems S. S. Choi and F. Jiang Under-excitation limiter design by variable structure control Gustavo Henrique da Costa Oliveira, A robustness approach for prefiltering the GPC Wagner Caradori do Amaral and Luiz Gimeno Latre Michael Kahn Material identification algorithms for parallel systems and Sotirios G. Ziavras A. K. Azad and R. B. Misra A new approach to evaluate reliability and production cost of a power generating system S. Erfani and M. Ahmadi A new look at digital filter realization by conformal mapping NUMBER 6 X. D. Jia, R. M. M. Chen Three level partitioning algorithm for circuit simulation and A. M. Layfield on multiprocessor F. Hartanto, W. Kreutzer, Quantitative stochastic simulation of telecommunication K. Pawlikowski and H. R. Sirisena networks in DESC+ + R. Colbaugh and K. Glass Decentralized adaptive control of electrically-driven manipulators A. Patra and S. Mukhopadhyay A software tool for performance evaluation of digital control algorithms on finite wordlength processors List of Referees Volume Contents, Author and Key Word Index for Volume 22 (1996) IV