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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 25 NUMBER 1 Special Issue: Eurocast 1993 International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Part 1 Guest Editors: Roberto Moreno-Dfaz Franz Pichler REDUCED-ORDER KALMAN FILTER FOR ALIGNMENT J. Aranda, J. M. de la Cruz, S. Dormido, P. Ruipérez, and R. Hernandez ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PREFERENCE RELATIONAL SYSTEMS IN A COMPUTER-AIDED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM José A. Moreno DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE IN BAYESIAN NETWORKS F. J. Diez and J. Mira MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS: DESIGNS FOR SIMULATION Francisco Bustio, Pedro Corcuera, Julio Garcia, and Eduardo Mora COMPUTER-AIDED DECISION SYSTEM FOR FUTURE STRATEGIES IN OLD HYDROPOWER PLANTS A. Eichinger, H.-B. Matthias, and L. Heninger IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SYSTEMS-BASED MODELS GENERATOR SIGEM Antonio Caselles GENERATION AND CODIFICATION OF CONNECTED COMPONENTS IN IMAGES OF PIXEL DIAGNOSIS J. Cabrera-Gamez and A. Falcon 137 IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING A MODIFIED SPLIT AND MERGE TECHNIQUE Javier Lorenzo-Navarro and Mario Hernandez-Tejera 163 IMPACT OF SMOOTH SURFACE PERCEPTION CAPABILITY ON THE STRUCTURE OF A VISION SYSTEM Radim Sara 177 EVALUATION OF A SHAPE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BASED ON A SIGNATURE FUNCTION J. R. Fernandez, R. Balsa, S. Feijoo, and A. Carollo 187 ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 2 Special Issue: Eurocast 1993 International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Part 2 Guest Editors: Roberto Moreno Dfaz Franz Pichler THEORETICAL MODEL OF THE HIPPOCAMPAL-CORTICAL MEMORY SYSTEM MOTIVATED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS Minoru Tsukada USING FUZZY LOGIC TO INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE OF FEM MODULES Madjid Fathi-Torbaghan, Lars Hildebrand, and Kay Becker MODELING THE REPRESENTATION OF TIME FROM A FUZZY PERSPECTIVE R. Marin, S. Barro, A. Bosch, and J. Mira SOME METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MACHINE LEARNING J. G. Boticario and J. Mira LOCAL LEARNING IN NETWORKS OF UNIVERSAL ANALOGIC NEURONS J. Mira, A. E. Delgado, M. Santos, A. P. de Madrid, and J. R. Alvarez INTRODUCTION TO GENERALIZED SAMPLING— RECONSTRUCTION E. Rovaris and R. Jezieniecki DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR COMPUTER VISION SYSTEMS AT PIXEL LEVEL J. Méndez, A. Falcén, F. M. Hernandez, and J. Cabrera SYSTEM OF ARTIFICIAL VISION FOR THE ACTUATION OF ROBOTS J. R. Fernandez, S. Feijoo, R. Balsa, and J. Taboada SIMULATING LARGE NEURAL ASSEMBLIES OF UNRELIABLE COMPONENTS J. Coenen FUZZY LOGIC MODELING OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR E. Barbera and P. Albertos PARALLEL INFERENCE ENGINE FOR FUZZY CONTROLLERS Ricardo Garcfa Rosa, M? Teresa de Pedro, and Marco Tulio de Andrade NUMBER 3 373 CAN WE OUTLIVE METHUSELAH? Matthias Wabl, William Harriman, Edith Fischer, and Charles Steinberg ASYMPTOTIC CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING: ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTS David B. Fogel A NEW METHOD FOR HANDLING MULTICRITERIA FUZZY DECISION-MAKING PROBLEMS Shyi-Ming Chen HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR ROBOT DYNAMIC PARAMETERS LEARNING Albert Y. Zomaya 447 A MORE BIOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED GENETIC ALGORITHM: THE MODEL AND SOME RESULTS Dipankar Dasgupta and Douglas R. McGregor DEVS-BASED INTELLIGENT CONTROL: SPACE-ADAPTED MIXING SYSTEM EXAMPLE Bernard P. Zeigler and Sung-Do Chi NUMBER 4 511 UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR MLPs AND RBFNs: INTRODUCING CONIC SECTION FUNCTION NETWORKS Georg Dorffner FAILURE-DRIVEN LEARNING IN THE CONTROL OF iILL-DEFINED, CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS David W. Russell PERCEPTION OF AREA OF INTERPOLATED FIGURES Vito Di Maio and Petr Lansky LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING IN SCHOOL John Cederstrom and Jens Rasmussen CAD TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY CONTROLLERS ON FPGAs Mahmoud A. Manzoul and Dinesh Jayabharathi INTELLIGENT CAD SYSTEM IN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT: A KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH Utpal Roy 629 HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO INVENT A NONTRIVIAL GAME? Viadik Kreinovich and Richard Watson 641 ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 5 OBITUARY: EDUARDO R. CAIANIELLO (1921-1993) Luigi M. Ricciardi 643 COMPLEXITY REDUCTION FOR OPTIMIZATION OF DETERMINISTIC TIMED PETRI-NET SCHEDULING BY TRUNCATION Qin Chen, J. Y. S. Luh, and Liying Shen SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION OF ROBOT DYNAMIC PARAMETERS Peyman Kouchakpour and Albert Y. Zomaya EXTENSION OF PREDICTIVE CONTROL IN CONTINUOUS-TIME DOMAIN Li Jianhong and Chen Jianqin 745 ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 6 Special Issue: Cybernetics of Country Development Guest Editors: Stuart Umpleby Paul Ballonoff NATIONALISM AS IDEOLOGY, NATIONALISM AS EMOTION, AND THE PITFALLS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Tetsunori Koizumi SYSTEMS METAPHORS, SYSTEMS ANALOGIES, AND PRESENT CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Czestaw Mesjasz SOCIAL CONVERSION AND THE PROSPECTS FOR SOCIAL REFORM IN RUSSIA Nicholai |. Lapin SLOVAKIA IN TRANSITION: EXAMINING SCENARIOS FOR CHANGE WITH A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL Peter Fleissner, Frantisek Hajnovic, and Klemens Leutgob WHAT IS TO BE DONE: LEARNING DEMOCRACY WHILE IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONS Stuart A. Umpleby THEORY OF RULE-BOUND HUMAN SYSTEMS Paul A. Ballonoff THREE YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR A THEORY: TWO-GENERATION CYCLES IN THE TRANSITION FROM A PREINDUSTRIAL TO A MODERN SOCIETY Matjaz Mulej EUROPEAN NATION-STATE UNDER PRESSURE: NATIONAL FRAGMENTATION OR THE EVOLUTION OF SUPRASTATE STRUCTURES? David F. J. Campbell DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE DURING DEVELOPMENT FROM A PREINDUSTRIAL TO A MODERN SOCIETY Matjaz Mulej FOLLOWING PAGE 930: TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 25 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 25 AUTHOR INDEX TO VOLUME 25“