A Publication of Electronics, Information and Systems Society 2002

The Special Issue on ''Widegap Semiconductor''

Preface to the Special lssue on ''Widegap Semiconductor''

Process Technique for GaN Related Electron Devices

Properties of Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors for Electron Device Fabrication

High Performance Diamond Field-Effect Transistors on Hydrogen-Terminated Surface-Channel

H. Umezawa, H. Taniuchi, T. Arima,H. Ishizaka, N. Fujihara, Y. Ohba, M. Tachiki,&H. Kawarada 10

Formation of Deep pn Junctions by High-Energy Al and B Ion Implantations into SiC

AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor with Novel High Breakdown Voltage

H. Masato, Y. Ikeda, T. Matsuno, K. Nishii,&K. Inoue 23

Low Resistance Contact and K-Band High Power Porformance for AlGaN/GaN HJFETs

K. Kasahara, N. Hayama, K. Kunihiro, H. Miyamoto,Y. Takahashi, Y. Ando, T. Nakayama, Y. Okamoto, Y. Ohno,&M. Kuzuhara 29

Evaluation of Mental and Physical Workload while Driving using Wavelet Transform of Heart Rate Time Series

..........K. Yokoyama, N. Omi, Y. Morimoto, Y. Mizuno,&K. Takata 36

Identifying Components of Human Movement-Related Cortical Potential using Time-Frequency Analysis based on Wavelet Transform

An Automatic Coefficient Selection and the Data Reconstruction in Impedance Computed Imaging with an Average Variables Technique

Estimation of Distribution of Displacement and Strain of Myocardium on Echocardiogram

Development of a Helium Collection and Liquefied System for Magnetoencephalograph-Measurement System

..........M. Kawakatsu, K. Kobayashi, Y. Uchikawa, M. Saito, M. Kotani, S. Fujihira,&H. Ogata 66

An Interleaver Design Method for Turbo Coding in Short Frame Transmission

..........H. Lin, X. Wang, J. Lu,&T. Yahagi 71

An Application of Continuous Weights to Phase Unwrapping

Recognition of Degraded Character String on Steel Plate

..........K. Sawa, W. Ohyama, T. Wakabayashi,&F. Kimura 84

L2-gain Analysis and State Feedback Control Synthesis for Linear Time-Delay Systems--Infinite-Dimensional LMI Approach--

..........K. Ikeda, T. Azuma,&K. Uchida 90

Camera Calibration using Pointed Markers at Regular Intervals and Registration of Virtual Property Lines

Nonlinear Control Method based on Impulse Response of Universal Learning Networks

K. Hirasawa, M. Hashimoto, J. Hu, J. Murata,&C.Z. Jin 105

A Distinction Method of Fuel Property for Automotive Engines Using a Dynamic Reference Model

S. Takahashi, S. Tani, T. Ishii,&K. Katogi 116

Automatic Insertion Work Based on Visual Measurement and State Transition Analysis with Contact Force Estimation

..........S. Murakami, K. Yano, K. Takaoka, Y. Hashiguchi, T. Irie,J. Goto, H. Wakizako,&T. Hasegawa 124

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)

Chaotic Associative Memory for Successive Learning using Internal Patterns

..........N. Kawasaki, Y. Osana,&M. Hagiwara 133

Determinism Analysis with Iso-Directional Recurrence Plots

..........S. Horai, T. Yamada,&K. Aihara 141

A Car-Following Model Based on a Self-Learning Neuro-Fuzzy Controller

Residual Stress Improvement on Inside Wall of Small-Diameter Pipe by Underwater Laser Ablation

Y. Sano, M. Yoda, N. Mukai, M. Shimamura,Y. Ono,&Y. Kanazawa 156

Frameworks for Constructing Information Systems

(Integrated Electronic-Circuits)FPGA Design of a Digital Circuit for Estimating Chaotic Characteristics from Approximated Nonlinear Functions

..........K. Eguchi, F. Ueno, T. Tabata, H. Zhu, Y. Seiki,&T. Inoue 173

(Optoelectronics&Quantum Electronics)Nonlinear Optical Properties and Phase Structure of VOPc Thin Film Prepared on Polyimide Substrate

..........H. Nakano, Y. Sakai, Y. Uchida, K. Kojima, A. Ohashi, S. Ochiai,&T. Mizutani 181

Measurement of Atmospheric SO2, O3, NO2 Concentration Profiles by Multiwavelength DIAL

..........T. Fukuchi, T. Fujii, T. Nayuki, N. Cao, K. Nemoto, H. Mori,&N. Takeuchi 187

(Biomedical Engineering)Analysis of the Spike Discharges on EEG During Sleep in Epileptic Animal Model

..........M. Uuchibori S. Yokoyama, K. Saito, H. Suzuki, T. Tsuji,&K. Suzuki 194

Emerging Chemotaxis of Virtual Bacteria using Genetic Algorithm

..........T. Tsuji, K. Hashigami, M. Kaneko,&H. Ohtake 201

(Communication and Networks)An Efficient Method for Network Topology Identification Based on SOM Algorithm

..........K. Hosaka, T. Goya, D. Umehara,&M. Kawai 208

(Multimedia Technology)Virtual Space Creation System Reflecting User's Emotion

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Coding Scheme of Residual Signal to Improve the Clearness of Explosive Consonant for LSP-VCV Speech Synthesis

..........T. Shimizu, H. Yoshimura, T. Namiki, N. Isu,&K. Sugata 224

Extraction of Character String from Scene Image by Binarizing Local Target Area

..........K. Matsuo, K. Ueda,&M. Umeda 232

Detection of the Color Document's Direction Using Layout Information of Document Components

..........H. Izui, H. Ito,&A. Kumamoto 242

(Control and Measurement)Decentralized Model Following Controllers for a Class of Large Scale Interconnected Dynamical Systems with Uncertainties

A Method of Fault Detection Support for Building Air Conditioning Systems by Correlation Analysis

..........M. Kishimoto, T. Yamasaki, T. Ohkawa, N. Komoda,&F. Miyasaka 259

A Non-linear GPC Algorithm Using Neural Networks

..........Y. Eki, J. Murata,&K. Hirasawa 265

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)Automatic Logic Circuit Synthesis Using Genetic Algorithm Based on the Coexistence of Heterogeneous Populations

..........T. Masuda, Y. Hayashi, H. Tanaka, Y. Shigehiro,&M. Inoue 270

A Local Linear Adaptive Wavelet Neural Network

(Software and Information Processing)Expansion of Applicable Environment and Destinction of Bikes in Traffic Measurement

..........H. Yamada, S. Sudo,&S. Ozawa 285

Objeht-Oriented Development Based on Domain Reference Models

..........T. Hayase, T. Ando, H. Maruo, H. Niitate,&H. Enomoto 296

(Biomedical Engineering)Construction of Pleasantness Estimation Matrix by the Correlation Coefficients of EEG

..........N. Utsunomiya, H. Tanaka,&H. Ide 309

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Frequency Analysis of Handwritten Characters and a Method for Generation by Computers

..........K. Yamashita, S. Serikawa,&T. Shimomura 311

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)Clustering Using Perceptual Positions

..........Y. Suzuki, A. Kawamura, S. Saga,&J. Maeda 313

(System Engineering)Hierarchical Intelligent Control by PSP-learning and Cascade Fuzzy Control for Parking Vechicle in Narrow Area

Special Issue on ''Theory and Application of Evolutionaryand Learning Systems''

Preface of Special Issue on ''Theory and Applications of Evolutionary and Learning Systems''

Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics

An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation

(Control and Measurement)Reinforcement Learning of Walking Behavior for a Four-legged Robot

..........H. Kimura, T. Yamashita,&S. Kobayashi 330

(Robotics)Performance Skill Acquisition of a Rings Gymnastic Robot by GA Using Subgroup-Based Evaluation

..........T. Yamada, K. Watanabe, K. Kiguchi,&K. Izumi 338

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)Basic Study of Multi Agent Systems with Symbiotic Learning and Evolution-Masbiole-

..........K. Hirasawa, H. Yoshida, K. Nakanishi,&J. Hu 346

Online Learning of Genetic Network Programming

..........S. Mabu, K. Hirasawa, J. Hu,&J. Murata 355

A Genetic Algorithm for Function Optimization Considering Functional Specialization of Genetic Operators

Reinforcement Learning Using Adaptive Search Method

..........K. Umesako, M. Obayashi,&K. Kobayashi 374

An Iterative Calculation Method of Neuron Model with Sigmoid Function

..........N. Chujo, S. Kuroyanagi, S. Doki,&S. Okuma 381

Integrative Optimization of Loading Pattern and Control Rod Pattern in Boiling Water Reactor Using Two-stage Genetic Algorithm

Adaptation to a Dynamic Environment by Means of the Environment Identifying Genetic Algorithm

(System Engineering)Proposition of Module Type Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Modified Scheduling Problems with Worker Allocation

Applying Bayesian Optimization Algorithm with Tabu Search to Electric Equipments Design Problems in a Power Plant

(Integrated Electronic-Circuits)Low-Voltage Linear OTAs Employing Multi-TANH Doublet and Exponential-Law Circuits

..........F. Matsumoto, I. Yamaguchi, H. Wasaki,&Y. Noguchi 425

(Biomedical Engineering)Analysis of the Cough Data for Aged People

..........S. Kato, K. Toriumi,&S. Takeda 433

(Communication and Netwoks)Wind Profiler Velocity Estimation with Complex Adaptive Line Enhancer

(Multimedia Technology)A Realization on Faster Convergence and Higher Reliability of The New Blind Deconvolution Algorithm Using The Minimum Entropy Method

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Restoration of 3-D Facial Shape from Stereographic Images using Pseudo Random Colored Slit Ray Pattern

..........M. Tokoro, S. Nishida, N. Okamoto,&T. Minami 457

Feature Extraction of Digit Patterns Utilizing Independent Component Analysis

The Recognition of Facial Expressions Based on Tracking of Movement of Specific Facial Areas from Reference Face

..........H. Ebine, M. Ikeda,&O. Nakamura 471

(Control and Measurement)A Design of Self-Tuning Pole-Assignment Control Systems Based on Minimizing Quadratic Cost Functions

..........Y. Ohnishi, T. Yamamoto,&M. Kaneda 485

Estimation of Random Signals over Networks via Multiple-Tree Theory

..........J. Sembiring, K. Akizuki,&H. Inujima 492

(Robotics)Moving Objects Detection from Travelling Monocular Camera Image

..........K. Izumida, K. Shiiya, H. Takahashi,&S. Derrouich 498

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)Recognition of Scenery Images considering Positional Relation using Fuzzy Inference Neural Networks

(Software and Information Processing)Detection of Approaching Vehicles at the Intersection for the Driving Support

..........M. Matsumoto, S. Sudo,&S. Ozawa 512

(Integrated Electronic-Circuits)An FPGA-implementable Chaos Circuit with Array Structure

..........K. Eguchi, F. Ueno, T. Tabata, H. Zhu,&T. Inoue 523

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)A Study on Walk-Recognition in a Wooden House by Comparing Footstep Spectra

For the Special Issue on "Optical Networks"

Hyper Photonic Device Technologies for Optical Networks

Chromatic Dispersion in Optical Fibers and its Compensation Technology

(Optoelectronics&Quantum Electronics)Phase Reversal Effect of Fiber Bragg Grating and its Application to Optical Switches

(Communication and Networks)Experimental Studies of Optical Raman Amplifiers for a 1.3

m Wavelength Band and its Application to 20Gbit/s×2 WDM Transmissions

..........I. Yamashita, M. Inoguchi,&S. Seikai 557

Studies on Single Channel 80-Gbit/s Optical Signal Transmission Using SMF Lines Incorporated with Dispersion Compensation Fibers and Alternate Polarization Multiplexing

..........I. Yamashita, H. Shishida,&S. Seikai 564

(Integrated Electronic-Circuits)A Study on he Occurrence Mechanism for Undershoot of Logic Signal

Design of a Cell-Network Type SC DC-DC Converter for Mobile Equipments

..........K. Eguchi, F. Ueno, I. Oota, T. Tabata, H. Zhu,&T. Inoue 578

(Biomedical Engineering)An Influence that Spatial Frequency Adaptation Causes on Visual Acuity--Simulation Studies and Psychophysical Investigations--

..........Y. Nagai, K. Uchida, K. Ueda, H. Onodera,&N. Sugie 585

An EM-algorithm Based Method for Estimating Propagation Delays from Observed Neuronal Spike Trains

..........H. Itoh, Y. Jimbo,&K. Aihara 592

Estimation of Local and Relative Optical Flow of Myocardium on Echocardiogram using Block Matching

(Electronics Applications)Yellow Detectable Cane for Sight Handicapped Persons

..........H. Oshima, J. Shibata, H. Takeda,&K. Kume 605

(Sensing Systems)A Proposal of Sensing Equipment imitating Phototransformation of Plants

An Estimation Model of Damage Degree Using Interferometric SAR Data

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Vision-based lnterface Using-face and Hand Recognition with Attention

..........H. Hongo, M. Ohya, H. Watanabe, M. Yasumoto,&K. Yamamoto 624

Extraction of Text Region From Color Image Sequence of A Book Cover Containing Gilt Characters

Segment Analysis for Lineament Detection Using Remote Sensing Data

..........Y. Kageyama, M. Nishida,&T. Oi 639

Quality Recognition of Interphones by the LVQ Method

..........N. Kamimoto, T. Abe, K. Lin,&S. Omatu 648

Plural Image Areas Searching by Normalized Correlation Using Genetic Algorithm with Immune System

A Study on Human Extraction Including Overlapped Faces

(System Engineering)Acquiring Localization Ability by Self-organization in a Non-linear Motor System

..........H. Nakashima, T. Matsumoto,&N. Ohnishi 669

A Gradient Ascent Learning Algorithm in Weight Domain for Hopfield Neural Networks

Strategic Hedging for System Risks of Generation Company

..........H. Tanaka, Y. Ichida,&M. Akiyoshi 684

The Differential Time-Delay Estimation Method for the Radiated Noise of the Vessel by the Passive Ranging

(Software and Information Processing)The Simulation Analysis to Tract Down the Running Locus of the Underwater Vehicle by the Radiated Noise

A Fault Tolerant Microprocessor with Self-Checking and Recovering Functions

(Electronic Commerce)A Proposal on Electronic Commerce Server with Virtual Market

(Communication and Networks)A Clock Recovery Circuit for 80-Gbit/s Optical Signals and its Application to 400-km Single Channel Transmission

..........S. Seikai, I. Yamashita, H. Shishida,&K. Shimoura 720

A Design Method of Block Interleaver for Turbo Codes Based on Low Correlation Coefficient

..........X. Wang, H. Lin, J. Lu,&T. Yahagi 722

Special Issue on ''Design and Construction Technologyfor Information Systems''

The Special Issue on Design and Construction Technology for Information Systems

Software Process Improvement in Information Systems Development

Creation of Next Generation Information Systems Based on Software Services Engineering

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Detection of the Eye-focused Character on Moving Syllabary by Neural Networks for ALS Patients

..........N. Kanou, M. Inoue, Y. Kobayashi, T. Kawamura,&K. Nakashima 744

(System Engineering)Analysis of Factors Obstructive to a Value of Information Technology

(Software and Information Processing)Bottleneck Detection of Distributed Object Systems from End User's Viewpoints

(Electronic Commerce)An Architecture for Cyber Business Community Platform in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce and Collaboration

H. Kitajima, S. Yamada, H. Tomita, M. Tominaga,&J. Nitta 767

A Support System for The Requirement Extraction from BBS Using Topic Mapping Based on Structure of Conversation with a3-dimensional Space

A. Hiramatsu, T. Nozaki, H. Shibata, N. Komoda,&T. Kusuzaki 773

(Biomedical Engineering)Intention Transmitting System by the Single-Trial MRCP Analysis

(Electronics Applications)A Study on Frequency Stability of High Precision Oscillator using GPS

..........T. Shioda, K. Manju, H. Otsuka,&Y. Sekine 786

(Multimedia Technology)Color-Illustration Generation System from Facial Image

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition)Evaluation of a Fingerprint Verification Method Based on LPC Analysis

..........N. Matsumoto, S. Sato, H. Fujiyoshi,&T. Umezaki 799

Texture Image Segmentation by Detecting Texture Edges

Facial Identification System Based on High Speed Matching Algorithm for Isodensity Lines

..........T. Hirano, M. Ikeda,&O. Nakamura 816

(Robotics)A Selection Method of Genes for Decreasing the Number of Fitness Value Calculations

(System Engineering)A Proposal of a Method of Reactive Scheduling for the Delivery Scheduling Problem

..........J. Sawamoto, Y. Ohta, H. Tsuji,&H. Koizumi 832

Unified Recipe Information Management for Batch Process Control and Scheduling

A Method for Software Reuse in Information and Control Software Systems Development

Automatic Generation of System Descriptions for Plant Supervisory Control Systems

..........H. Nakata, S. Harauchi,&T. Kojima 860

Analyzing the CO2 Reduction Effects of Green Taxation of Car Possession Based on the Car Type Preference Model

..........Y. Yoshida, S. Nakatsuka, R. Matsuhashi,&H. Ishitani 868

(Software and Information Processing)High Speed Processing Method for A SIMD Parallel Computer

..........A. Iwase, T. Isonishi, H. Miyata,&H. Koizumi 878

Experiments on Distributed Parallel Processing for Speeding up Prime Factorization in the Elliptic Curve Method

..........H. Tsurusawa, S. Nakayama, T. Futida,&S. Murashima 885

(Electronic Commerce)Hybrid Type of Global Optimization Methods with Discretized Chaos Mappings and Increase Accepting Methods

(Communication and Networks)All Optical Clock Recovery from NRZ Optical Signals using an Interferometer Composed of a Birefringent Fiber

..........S. Seikai, I. Yamashita,&K. Shimoura 900

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems)A New Impulse Noise Detector Based on Pattern Classification

Inaugural Address of President of Industry Applications Society

(Electronic Devices) Investigations on AlGaN/GaN Hetero-Structures and High Electron Mobility Transistor

..........H. Ishikawa, T. Egawa,&T. Jimbo 910

(Biomedical Engineering) Study on Focality of Pulsed Magnetic Stimulation by using Bullfrog's Sciatic Nerve

..........K. Yunokuchi, Y. Koba, G. Wang, H. Yoshida,&Y. Tamari 916

(Communication and Networks) A Distributed Network Routing Algorithm using Reinforcement Learning Method

..........H. Une, T. Yokoyama, S. Ikebo, A. Tanaka,&F. Qian 922

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) Character Segmentation and Recognition of Alphanumeric-mixed Documents Based on Pattern Recognition Information

Object Recognition by Learning Effective Image Features Using Genetic Algorithm

Development and Evaluation of Visualization System of File Directory Structure Available on the Network

A Measurement System of the Shape of the Land Using Stereo Vision

N. Fujewara, T. Onda, T. Igarashi, M. Niwakawa, Y. Kumita, H. Oda,&H. Koshiyama 950

(Control and Measurement) Identification of Linear System with Time Delay and Unknown Order

..........K. Harada, Y. Kobayashi,&T. Okita 957

High-Speed Execution Method for a Program in Factory-Automation-Cell Control Language

..........M. Koyama, N. Miyake, K. Fujii,&N. Komoda 964

Chaos Control by DFC Method Based on State Prediction

..........Y. Shimizu, Y. Yamanaka, M. Miyazaki, H. Lee, S. Lee,&K. Akizuki 972

Robust L2 Disturbance Attenuation for Nonlinear Systems with Input Dynamical Uncertainty

..........X. Jiao, T. Shen,&K. Tamura 980

Water Level Control of Small-scale Hydroelectric Power Plant

..........S. Endo, M. Konishi, H. Imabayashi,&H. Sugiyama 989

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems) Human Face Detection In Visual Scenes Using Neural Networks

..........S. Karungaru, M. Fukumi,&N. Akamatsu 995

Optimization of Noisy Fitness Functions by means of Genetic Algorithms using History of Search

Automatic Learning of a Concept Relation Dictionary for a Text Mining System

..........S. Sakurai, Y. Ichimura, A. Suyama,&R. Orihara 1009

A Learning Automata Solution of Load Balancing Problems of Network Computing Systems

..........T. Yokoyama, F. Qian,&H. Hirata 1016

(Software and Information Processing) Automatic Generation of Nurse Scheduling Table Using Genetic Algorithm

..........H. Kawanaka, K. Yamamoto, T. Yoshikawa, T. Shinogi,&S. Tsuruoka 1023

Self-Tuning of Fuzzy Rules when Learning Data has a Radically Changing Distribution

..........E. Gonda, H. Miyata,&M. Ohkita 1033

Performance Examination of Some Evolutionary Algorithm as a Solution Method for Man Scheduling Problem

An Efficient Spatial-Temporal Data Structure for Moving Objects

(Transportation and Electric Railway) Railway Station Shunting Scheduling Algorithm utilizing Case Based Reasoning

(Electronic Devices) Fabrication and Characterizations of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with a Buried p-Layer

..........K. Shiojima, T. Suemitsu,&N. Shigekawa 1085

(Optoelectronics&Quantum Electronics) A Stable 2-W Supply Optical Powering System

..........T. Yasui, J. Ohwaki,&M. Mino 1089

(Biomedical Engineering) The Neuron Model Considering Difference of Time of Inputs and its Movement Direction Selection Function

..........H. Tamura, Z. Tang,&M. Ishii 1094

Quantitative Evaluation of Reading Ability with Simulated Prosthetic Vision

Examination in Change of Radial Artery Pressure Pulse at Kampo Internal Use Based on Extended Electric Circuit Arterial Model

..........H. Ishiyama, H. Kasahara, K. Amano, K. Uebaba,&F. Xu 1110

(Communication and Networks) Development of Two-way Electromagnetic Underground Communication System for Drilling

..........S. Inoue, K. Akizuki, H. Inujima, A. Jitumori, T. Usami,&T. Tochikawa 1120

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) An Effective Verification Method for Varying the Quality of Fingerprint Images

..........T. Umezaki, S. Sato, A. Kimura,&N. Matsumoto 1127

Parallel Processing Scheme of Stereo Matching Considering Cache Hit Rate

..........K. Nakazawa, H. Furuya, Y. Maekawa,&M. Iyoda 1137

A Study on False Operation Prevention Interface using Speech Monitoring

..........O. Segawa, M. Takahashi,&N. Nishimata 1144

(Control and Measurement) A Robust Scheme of Indirect MRAC System Taking Account of the Presence of Deterministic Disturbances

..........Y. Suzuki, T. Suzuki,&K. Itamiya 1150

Electrode Arrangement for Measuring Earth Resistance of a Tree

..........H. Fukuma, K. Tanaka,&I. Yamaura 1159

A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Minimum Initial Marking Problems of Petri Nets

..........K. Hachiman, M. Nakamura, S. Tamaki,&K. Onaga 1166

Design of an Augmented Automatic Choosing Control by Zero Dynamics and GA for Nonlinear Systems

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems) Machine Design Support System Using Interactive Evolutionary Techniques

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Markovian Environments--A Proposal of Switching Q-learning--

The Local Linear Adaptive Wavelet Neural Network with Hybrid EP/Gradient Algorithm and Its Application to Nonlinear Dynamic System Identification

(System Engineering) Hardware Petri Nets on Programmable Devices

..........M. Nakamura, Y. Amau, T. Matsumura, K. Shimabukuro, I. Nagayama,&T. Yamashiro 1202

Development of Synchronized Supervision Systems in a Parallel MRP System

..........T. Tsukishima, M. Sato, & H. Onari 1209

(Software and Information Processing) TCS; Time-Dependent Classifier System for Solving Perceptual Aliasing Problems

..........M. Fukuyori, A. Hara,&T. Nagao 1218

(Energy System) Nonlinear Separation Modeling and Control of Boiler System by Use of Actual Data of a Thermal Power Plant

..........M. Nakamura, T. Yoshikai, S. Goto,&S. Matsumura 1226

(Biomedical Engineering) The Development and the Operation Records of a Liquid Helium Recirculation System for a Magnetoencephalograph Measurement System

..........M. Kawakatsu, K. Kobayashi, Y. Uchikawa, M. Saito,&M. Kotani 1234

(Control and Measurement) On Shifted Hurwitz Stability of Real Polynomials

Special Issue on ''The Electronics, Information and Systems Conference Electronics, Information and Systems Society, I.E.E. of Japan''

Preface Special Issue on ''The Electronics, Information and Systems Conference Electronics, Information and Systems Society, I.E.E. of Japan''

(Electronic Devices) Fabrication and Evaluation of Short-gate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

..........K.Shiojima, N.Shigekawa,&T.Suemitsu 1240

(Biomedical Engineering) Segmentation of Three Dimensional Ultrasonic Images by Locally Adaptive Filtering

..........A.Takemura, K.Okano,&M.Ito 1246

Effect of Delayed Measurement Technique for EEG Responses By Using a Magnetic Stimulation and Some Experimental Results

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) Optically-facial Identification System on the Optical JTC in Mobile Networks

..........R.Inaba, Y.Yaginuma, E.Watanabe,&K.Kodate 1259

(Control and Measurement) Acoustic Monitoring for Fluidized Bed Boilers

..........K.Shimohira, Y.Fukuyama, M.Horio,&K.Matsumoto 1266

(Biomedical Engineering) Decrease of Cognitive Function and Change of Facial Expression Control Ability in Drinking

Suppression of log-Weibull Distributed Ground Clutter Observed by L-band Radar

(Communication and Networks) A Design Method of Spatial and Temporal RBF Equalizer Using Adaptive Array Antenna

(Multimedia Technology) An Emotional Model with Oscillators and its Application to a Pet Robot

..........S.Kato, Y.Takeuchi, T.Matsumoto, H.Kudo, T.Yamamura,&N.Ohnishi 1293

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) Noise Removal for Degraded Images Using Neural Networks

..........J.Lu, M.Fujimoto,&T.Yahagi 1301

Image Generation with Smooth Gradations from Plural Gray-scaled Images Using Genetic Algorithm

(Control and Measurement) Precise Position Control of Ultrasonic Motor Using PID Controller Combined with NN

..........K.Tanaka, M.Oka, A.Uchibori, Y.Iwata,&H.Morioka 1317

Detection of Shady Mixtures and Automatic Measurement of Kneaded Food Area Utilizing Light Transmittivity

Load Following Control for Dispersed Generators Using PI Controller

..........T.Senjyu, H.Takara, K.Uezato, T.Funabashi,&T.Ito 1333

(Robotics) Development of Micromanipulation Systems Using Haptic Interface

..........N.Ando, M.Ohta, P.Korondi,&H.Hashimoto 1341

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems) Neural Networks Applied to Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring System

..........K.Yoshimoto, Y.Nakano, Y.Amano,&B.Kermanshahi 1351

(System Engineering) A Unit Commitment Problem using Genetic Algorithm and Intelligent Monte Carlo Method

..........T.Senjyu, H.Yamashiro, K.Shimabukuro, K.Uezato,&T.Funabashi 1360

(Software and Information Processing) Effectiveness of Mobile Agent for Query Retrieval

..........A.Selamat, S.Omatu, H.Yanagimoto, T.Fujinaka,&M.Yoshioka 1367

Analysis of Odor Preference and Adaptation Considering Subjectivity of Individual Resident

..........Y.Ueda, N.Kato, H.Kimura,&T.Oyabu 1374

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Color Images Using Fuzzy Homogeneity Decision

(Control and Measurement) A System Identification Method for Nonuniform Sampling Data Based on Missing Data Estimation

Special Issue on ''Biosignal Measurement and Processing''

For the Special Issue on ''Biosignal Measurement and Processing''

..........S. Kanoh, H. Nakatani, S. Ohba,&N. Hoshimiya 1403

Biosignal processing-Two practical examples

Electroencephalography and its Inverse Analysis

(Bioelectric Measurement and Modeling) Fundamental Characteristics of Silver-Silver Chloride Electrode as an Electronic Biomedical Instrumentation Interface

High Resolution Measurement of Time Variation in Skin Impedance Locus

T. Fukumoto, S. Ohba, R. Futami, H. Tanaka,&N. Hoshimiya 1433

Fabrication of Conductive Polymer Micro-Patterns

Y. Ito, Y. Ohnishi, K. Kiuchi,&T. Yagi 1441

Development of On-chip Multi-electrode Neural Cell Cultivation System using Thick Photoresist SU-8 and Semi-permeable Membrane for Long Term Studies

K. Takahashi, Y. Sugio, H. Moriguchi, Y. Jimbo,&K. Yasuda 1447

On-chip Neural Cell Cultivation using Agarose-microchamber Array Constructed by Photo-thermal Etching Method

H. Moriguchi, K. Takahashi, Y. Sugio, Y. Wakamoto, I. Inoue, Y. Jimbo,&K. Yasuda 1453

Polyimide Multiple-site Surface Microelectrode for Epidural Cortical Recording of High Spatial Resolution Evoked-potentials

..........H. Takahashi, T. Ejiri, M. Nakao, N. Nakamura, K. Kaga,&T. Herve´ 1459

Independent Component Analysis of Multiple-site Auditory Evoked Potentials

..........H. Takahashi, M. Nakao, K. Kaga,&T. Herve´ 1469

Continuous Monitoring of Developmental Activity-changes in Cultured Cortical Networks

..........Y. Mukai, T. Shiina,&Y. Jimbo 1481

Optical Imaging and Signal Extraction of Functional Activity in Primary Visual Cortex

..........K. Miyahara, G. Wang,&K. Yunokuchi 1490

Characteristic Frequency of Muscle Response to Electrical Stimulation in Normal and Hypokalemic Rats

..........A. Nuruki, R. Nagaoka, G. Wang,&K. Yunokuchi 1495

Mechanisms for Fluctuation of Contraction Rhythm in Cultured Cardiac Myocytes of Neonatal Rats

..........Y. Yamauchi, R. Abe, M. Kohashi,&K. Kawahara 1500

Bifurcation of Burst Response in Amari-Hopfield Neuron Pair with a Periodic External Force

..........S. Tsuji, T. Ueta, H. Kawakami,&K. Aihara 1506

Introduction of a Method for Computing Electrostatic Potential Distribution around a DNA Molecule by a Cylinder Model

..........Y. Okita, T. Nishimura, T. Sugiura, T. Kazui,&H. Hirayama 1515

(Biomagnetism Measurement and Modeling) Simulation Study on Properties of Nerve Excitation Elicited by Neural Magnetic Stimulation in Inhomogeneous Volume Conductor

Analysis of MEG Coherence during Working Memory Tasks

..........K. Tanaka, K. Fujiwara, G. Wang, K. Yunokuchi, M. Kawakatsu,&M. Saito 1529

Time Course of Estimation in Motor Cortex Excitability by Auditory Stimulation

..........A. Nuruki, H. Suekawa, G. Wang,&K. Yunokuchi 1536

Auditory Evoked Magnetic Fields by Categorization of Spoken Word

..........Y. Hirata, T. Sakai,&S. Kuriki 1542

Effects of Static Magnetic Field on Cell Behavior

(ECG/EEG Measurement and Signal processing) The Detection of EEG Characteristic Waves by Using Locally Stationary Autoregressive Model

..........T. Fukami, R. Emori, T. Shimada, T. Akatsuka,&Y. Saito 1553

Estimation of the Number of EEG Sources in Human Brain Using Multidimensional Directed Information Analysis

..........O. Sakata, T. Shiina,&Y. Saito 1560

The Evalution of Cognition to the Modulated Vibration Stimulus by ERP

..........T. Shiozaki, M. Uchida, H. Tanaka, A. Nozawa,&H. Ide 1567

Automatic Integrative Interpretation System for Awake EEG Including Spike Detection

..........T. Sugi, M. Nakamura, A. Ikeda,&H. Shibasaki 1573

Automatic Sleep Stage Determination by Probabilistic Method Based on Experts' Knowledge and Data

..........M. Nakamura, M. Kimizuka, T. Sugi, F. Kawana,&H. Shibasaki 1581

Development of Biotelemetry Technique for EEG/ECG Measurement in a Strong ELF Electric Field

..........M. Yamashita, K. Ohsaki,&K. Shimizu 1589

A Study of Data Reduction Method for ECG Medical Telemetry System

Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram from Cutaneous Potential Recordings of a Pregnant Woman Using Time Delayed Decorrelation and Nonlinear Noise Reduction

..........N. Tanaka, M. Naito,&K. Yunokuchi 1603

Development of Devices with Immunity--An Extraction of ECG by the Perceptron Model with Learning--

The Measurement and Analysis on the Effect of Olfactory Stimulus on the Human Body

Study on the Pulse-rate Monitor for The Autonomic Nervous System

Relationship between Biological Signals and Subjective Estimation While Humans Listen to Sounds

..........S. Tasaki, T. Igasaki, N. Murayama,&H. Koga 1632

(Biomedical Image and Biomeasuring Instrument) Evaluation of Spontaneous Echo Contrast in Left Atrium using Transesophageal Echocardiography

..........H. Ishii, T. Ono, E. Momma, R. Hasegawa, T. Sakamaki, H. Takei,&K. Kanmatsuse 1639

Individual Identification by Spatial Frequency Feature of the Facial Skin Thermogram

..........T. Horigome, H. Tanaka,&H. Ide 1645

A New Pupillometer with an Auto Focus System by Using Pupil and Iris Area

..........A. Iijima, H. Minamitani, M. Haida, N. Ishikawa, Y. Ota, A. Ueno, M. Nishimura,&Y. Shinohara 1651

Evaluation of Reliability on Parameter Estimates in PET Kinetic Analysis--Reduction of Model Parameters in Estimation of Dopamine Metabolism with m18FnFDOPA--

..........Y. Ikoma, H. Toyama,&A. Uchiyama 1658

Measurement of Elasticity of Erythrocytes Using Atomic Force Microscope

..........H. Minamitani, T. Kawamura, K. Tsukada, A. Iijima, E. Sekizuka,&C. Osho 1664

Devolopment of Piezoelectric-Bimorph-Stirrer for the Automatic Analyzer

..........H. Oya, K. Rokugawa, M. Inoue, S. Sakaguchi,&A. Yamada 1672

(Plant physiology) Relationship Between the Bio-electric Potential and the Morphogenetic Properties of Grifora Frondosa under Different Light Stimuli

..........J. Hirama, H. Yanagibashi, M. Matsuda, R. Ishida,&T. Miyamoto 1679

The Effect of Metal Ion in The Medium on The Growth of Rahpanus Sativus Seed and Lateral Inhibition

..........S. Suzuki, T. Maruta,&Y. Nakamura 1686

High Sensitive Detection of Plant State Changes using Chloroplast Fluorescence

Special Issue on ''Signal and Image processing for Advanced Information and Telecommunications Neteork Society''

Trends of High Quality Still Image Coding

Personal Identification by a Facial Image--Human Profile and Isodensity Lines--

Classification of Skin Tumor using Image Processing

..........Y. Murase, T. Tanaka,&T. Oka 1713

(Optoelectronics&Quantum Electronics) Analysis of Whispering Gallery Mode in Microdisk Dielectric Resonator

Development of a Laser Radar Using LDS Dye and Sum Frequency Generation for NO2 Measurement

..........H. Mori, T. Nayuki, N. Cao, T. Fukuchi, T. Fujii, K. Nemoto,&N. Takeuchi 1727

(Biomedical Engineering) Extraction of the QRS Wave in an Electrocardiogram by Fusion of Dynamic Programming Matching and a Neural Network

..........S. Mohsin, Y. Kurimoto, Y. Suzuki,&J. Maeda 1734

(Communication and Networks) Quality Test of Interphones Using Two kinds of Neural Networks

..........N. Kamimoto, B. Wang,&S. Omatu 1742

(Sound and Image Processing and Recognition) Moving Pictures Segmentation and Adaptive Motion Compensation

..........Z. Chi, T. Kimura, K. Yamauchi,&K. Hatakeyama 1748

Generation of High-resolution Document Image from Plural Low-resolution Images Using Genetic Algorithm

Automation of Local Visibility Improvement for Color Digital Image

..........S. Ando, S. Imai,&M. Nakajima 1762

An Experiment of Detecting Fire Frame by Using Color Camera

..........K. Terada, K. Hoshikawa, S. Mizukami,&J. Yamaguchi 1772

(Control and Measurement) Development of a Plastic Discriminator based on Near Infrared Spectrum Analysis

..........T. Nakamura, T. Kawamura, K. Mochiki,&T. Michikawa 1779

Decentralized Adaptive Robust Stabilization for a Class of Uncertain Large Scale Interconnected Time-Delay Systems

(Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems) Time Series Prediction with a Neural Network Model Based on Bi-directional Computation Style: An Analytical Study and Its Estimation on Acquired Signal Transformation

A Study on Interactive Nurse Scheduling Support System Using Bacterial Evolutionary Algorithm Engine

..........T. Inoue, T. Furuhashi, H. Maeda,&M. Takaba 1803

Universal Learning Networks with Branch Control

..........Q. Xiong, K. Hirasawa, J. Hu, J. Murata,&D. Li 1812

Pulsed Neural Networks Based on Delta-Sigma Modulation and Their GHA Learning Rule

..........Y. Murahashi, S. Doki,&S. Okuma 1821

An Evolutionary Computation for Supplier Bidding Strategy in Electricity Auction Market

..........G. Xiong, T. Hashiyama,&S. Okuma 1830

A Method of Solving Flowshop Problem Using Hill-Climbing Learning Method

..........H. Tamura, Z. Tang, K. Wakada,&M. Ishii 1837

(System Engineering) An Information Filtering Method for Emergency Management

..........Y. Atoji, T. Koiso, M. Nakatani,&S. Nishida 1846

(Software and Information Processing) Ontology-based State Space Model Generation for Automatic Disign of Sequence Control Program

..........Y. Namioka, N. Komoda,&T. Matsudaira 1856

(Biomedical Engineering) Characteristic Points Detection in ECG by Fusion of DP Matching and Neural Network

..........S. Mohsin, Y. Kurimoto, Y. Suzuki,&J. Maeda 1866

Special Issue on ''The 2001 Kansai-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical Engineering, Japan''

Writer Identification and Verification Using Autoassociative Neural Networks

..........M. Umeda, T. Miyoshi,&K. Misaki 1869

Character Spotting of Historical Documents Using Pattern Segmentation Aided by Recognition Processing

A Maximum Neural Network for Constraint Satisfaction Problems Considering FPGA Implementation

..........M. Ohta, T. Kotani,&M. Kominami 1885

Characteristics of Creeping Discharge Developed in Narrow Gap between Insulators and Effect of a Backside Electrode

..........T. Nishikawa, N. Sakamoto, H. Ueno,&H. Nakayama 1894

[Integrated Electronic-Circuits] Fast Logical Location of Faults in Large Analog Electronic Circuits

..........C. Jinding, C. Shuo, M. Tsuji, M. Xikui,&H.Dongquan 1902

Implementation and Analysis of a Simple Circuit Causing Border-Collision Bifurcation

..........T. Kousaka, T. Ueta, S. Tahara, H. Kawakami,&M. Abe 1908

[Biomedical Engineering] A Trial of New Loss-less Compression Technique for Endoscope Images Using Reduction of Pixel Number Information and its Matrix Representation

..........R. Hosaka, Y. Hoshi,&T. Kanda 1917

[Communication and Networks] A Pattern Synthesis Based on Adaptive Array Theory Including Mutual Coupling

..........Y. Hirogari, Y. Hirasawa, M. Kominami,&H. Kusaka 1925

[Sound and Image Processing and Recognition] Searching and Recognition of Road Signpost using Scale and Position Detecting Network

..........M. Kawaguchi, S. Kodama, T. Jimbo,&M. Umeno 1931

[Control and Measurement] Modeling and Control of NOx Decomposition Process with Operating-Point Dependent Dynamics

..........H. Peng, T. Ozaki, Y. Toyoda,&V. H. Ozaki 1940

A Design of Multivariable Self-Tuning PID Controllers with an Internal Model Structure

..........Y. Ohnishi, T. Yamamoto,&S. Omatu 1947

Development of the Gradient Temperature Control Method for Temperature Equalization-A New Approach to Decoupling Control Based on PID Control-

..........I. Nanno, M. Tanaka, N. Matsunaga,&S. Kawaji 1954

[Robotics] Robot Vision System with Gray-Scale Image and Range Image for the Outdoor Electricity Distribution Work

..........S. Murakami, T. Hasegawa, Y. Hashiguchi, T. Irie,&J. Goto 1961

[Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems] Neural Networks with Input Gates and Their Applications to Behavior Learning of Agents

..........J. Murata, M. Suzuki,&K. Hirasawa 1969

[System Engineering] Feasibility Study to Establish a Recycling-based Industrial System in Japan

..........R. Matsuhashi, Y. Yoshida,&H. Ishitani 1976

A Parallel Algorithm for Maximum Cut Problem Using Gradient Ascent Learning of Hopfield Neural Networks

..........R.L. Wang, Z. Tang,&Q.P. Cao 1986

The Special Issue on "2001 Tokai-Section Joint Conference of Institutes of Electrical and Related Engineers"

The Special Issue on the 2001 Tokai-Section Joint Conference of Institutes of Electrical Engineering, Japan

[Communication and Networks] Interference Canceller for DS/CDMA using Carrier Phase Information

..........T. Yamamoto, M. Yokoyama,&H. Uehara 1996

..........T. Sakata, J. Ichikawa, N. Inagaki,&N. Kikuma 2005

[Sound and Image Processing and Recognition] Real-Time Human Detection and Counting System Using Human Model and Axial Direction Filtering

Detection and Recognition of Repaired Speech on Misrecognized Utterances for Speech Input of Car Navigation System

..........N. Kitaoka, N. Kakutani,&S. Nakagawa 2020

Speech Recognition Using Features Based on Glottal Sound Source

..........D. Yamada, N. Kitaoka,&S. Nakagawa 2028

Outline Reconstruction with Area Preservation

..........H. Yokota, K. Aoki,&T. Kaneko 2035

[Control and Measurement] A Study on an Active Noise Control System Using an Adaptive Exponential Filter

A Study on an Estimation of Time Delay of Sparse Impulse Response

Frequenc Estimation using Adaptive Delay Notch Filter based on Sign Algorithm

Sound Source Location Estimation using Phase Difference of Formants

..........K. Obata, K. Noguchi,&Y. Tadokoro 2067

Real Time Frequency Detection of Power System Based on Synchronized Phasor Measurement

..........K. Nakano, Y. Ota, H. Ukai, K. Nakamura,&H. Fujita 2076

[System Engineering] Portable Human Navigation System and Its Evaluation

Proposition of Memory Architecture for Real-Time Action Search of Autonomous Mobile Robot

..........K. Doki, S. Hayakawa, T. Suzuki, S. Okuma,&T. Aoki 2091

[Software and Information Processing] Effective Representation of Road Network on Concept of Object Orientation

Incremental Parsing Based on Probabilistic Context Free Grammar

..........Y. Kato, S. Matsubara, K. Toyama,&Y. Inagaki 2109

[Sound and Image Processing and Recognition] Traffic Flow Measurement Considering Occlusion

..........K. Uchimura, K. Matsushima 2120

Off-line Persian Handwritten Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models

..........A Ahmadi, S. Omatu,&M. Yoshioka 2128

[Control and Measurement] A Design Method of Optimal Deadbeat Controller with Two-Degree-of-Freedom

..........D. Morita, T, Uchida,&H. Murata 2135

An Implementation of the One-Chip PLL/PWM Motor Control System

[Neural Network, Fuzzy and Chaos Systems] Genetic Network Programming and Its Application to the Multiagent System

..........H. Katagiri, K. Hirasawa, J. Hu, J. Murata 2149

Reinforcement Learning to Change Action Selection Probabilities by Motivation Values

..........T. Hamagami, S. Koakutsu,&H.Hirata 2157

[System Engineering] Comments on Epidemiological Papers Related to Cancer and Power-Line Magnetic Fields fom a Technological Standpoint

A Basic Study on the Body and Physiological Response to Visual Simulation of Ship Rolling

..........K. Murai, Y. Hayashi,&S. Inokuchi 2172

[Software and Information Processing] A Design and Implementation of Application S/W Based on a Quality Evaluation of S/W

..........K. B. Lee, J. Y. Song,&K. Akizuki 2180

[Software and Information Processing] The Effect of Touch-typing Practice in Information Processing Classes

..........C. Matsuyama, T. Nakashima,&N. Ishii 2189