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INFORMATION SCIENCES AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Volume Contents for 2003 Volume 149, Numbers 1–3, January 2003 H. JO H N CA U L F I E L D A N D PA U L P. WA N G Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. LE E , J.C. MO R I Z I O A N D K.M. JO H N S O N A LCOS microdisplay driver with frame buffering pixels . . . . . . . A. SI N H A A N D G. BA R B A S T A T H I S Resonant holography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.S. KI M On the evolution of PON-based FTTH solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.-C. SH I H , C.W. WO N G , Y.B. JE O N , S.-G. KI M A N D G. BA R B A S -
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I.-S. HW A N G A N D I.-F. HU A N G The optimal testing in photonic switching networks using tabulation methodology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. YA N A N D J. DE O G U N Multi-drop path model for multicast routing and wavelength assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.S. KI M A N D L.G. KA Z O V S K Y Design and performance evaluation of scheduling algorithms for unslotted CSMA/CA with backoff MAC protocol in multiple-access WDM ring networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. LE E , H. CH O I , S. SU B R A M A N I A M A N D H.-A. CH O I Survivable embedding of logical topologies in WDM ring networks K.K.Y. WO N G , M.E. MA R H I C , K. UE S A K A A N D L.G. KA Z O V S K Y Wavelength exchange: A novel function for optical networks . . . . . . H. SO T O B A Y A S H I , W. CH U J O A N D K.-I . KI T A Y A M A Optical code division multiplexing (OCDM) and its application for peta-bit/s photonic network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. KO O A N D S. SU B R A M A N I A M Performance evaluation of optical mesh restoration schemes . . . . . . . H. CH O I , S. SU B R A M A N I A M A N D H.-A. CH O I Loopback recovery from neighboring double-link failures in WDM mesh networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. TA N C E V S K I Intelligent next generation WDM optical networks . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Volume 149, Number 4, February 2003 T.-L. CH I A , K.-B. WA N G , L.-R. CH E N A N D Z. CH E N A parallel algorithm for generating chain code of objects in binary images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D B. KH A N Optimal distribution of a hierarchy of network management agents T.-C. HU A N G , L.-C. SH I U A N D Y.-J. LI N Generating efficient local memory access sequences for coupled subscripts in data-parallel programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. TE S F A T S I O N Agent-based computational economics: modeling economies as complex adaptive systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E.N. LE I T H Some highlights in the history of information optics . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Q. LI A N D L.-C. CH A N Reactive processing in ADOME-II: an extensible approach . . . . . . . 277 Volume 150, Numbers 1–2, March 2003 R. JO H N Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. FA R O O Q A N D S. DA T T A Phoneme recognition using wavelet based features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.P. AN G E L O V A N D R.A. BU S W E L L Automatic generation of fuzzy rule-based models from data by genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. HA G R A S , V. CA L L A G H A N , M. CO L L E Y A N D G. CL A R K E A hierarchical fuzzy–genetic multi-agent architecture for intelligent buildings online learning, adaptation and control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. CR O O K , T. OL D E SC H E P E R A N D V. PA T H I R A N A Self-organised dynamic recognition states for chaotic neural networks J.A. RO U B O S , M. SE T N E S A N D J. AB O N Y I Learning fuzzy classification rules from labeled data . . . . . . . . . . . . J.W. DA V I D S O N , D.A. SA V I C A N D G.A. WA L T E R S Symbolic and numerical regression: experiments and applications . . . Volume 150, Numbers 3–4, April 2003 M. SA R F R A Z , K. SA L A H A N D M. AH M E D Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. RI N E Human exploration and development of space: using XML database Space Wide Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.J.-Y. CH E N A N D S.-W. SU AgentGateway: A communication tool for multi-agent systems . . . . . V. SA F R O N O V A N D M. PA R A S H A R Optimizing Web servers using Page rank prefetching for clustered accesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA R F R A Z A N D F.A. RA Z Z A K A Web based system to capture outlines of Arabic fonts . . . . . . . . . P.D. MA N U E L A N D J. AL GH A M D I A data-centric design for n-tier architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA D I Q SO H A I L A N D B. SH A N M U G H A M E-banking and customer preferences in Malaysia: An empirical investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume 151, May 2003 B.-J. CH A N G A N D R.-H. HW A N G Analysis of adaptive cost functions for dynamic update policies for QoS routing in hierarchical networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H. LE E A N D J.M. CH A N G An integrated dynamic memory tracing tool for Cþþ . . . . . . . . . . . W.-C. FA N G , C.-C. HS U A N D C.-M. WA N G On the fault-tolerant embeddings of complete binary trees in the mesh interconnection networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. RA O , Y.-H. CH E N G , K.-H. CH A N G A N D Y.-B. LI N iMail: a WAP mail retrieving system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.A. SU H A I L , M.S. OB A I D A T , S.S. IP S O N A N D B. SA D O U N A comparative study of digital watermarking in JPEG and JPEG 2000 environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. AT A N A S I U , C. MA R T I´ N -VI D E A N D V. MI T R A N A On the sentence valuation in a semiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. PE R R I N A N D F.E. PE T R Y Extraction and representation of contextual information for knowledge discovery in texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. DO M I N G O -FE R R E R A N D V. TO R R A On the connections between statistical disclosure control for microdata and some artificial intelligence tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V.I. TO R V I K A N D E. TR I A N T A P H Y L L O U Guided inference of nested monotone Boolean functions . . . . . . . . . F. MA R C E L L O N I Feature selection based on a modified fuzzy C-means algorithm with supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. CH A N G , J.B. PA R K , Y.H. JO O A N D G. CH E N Static output-feedback fuzzy controller for Chen’s chaotic system with uncertainties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y. DI N G , H. YI N G A N D S. SH A O Typical Takagi–Sugeno PI and PD fuzzy controllers: analytical structures and stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.-Z. WU , J.-S. MI A N D W.-X. ZH A N G Generalized fuzzy rough sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GI L A N D L.J. RO D R I´ G U E Z -MU N~ I Z , M. LO P E Z -DI´ A Z , M.A D.A. RA L E S C U The s-differentiability of a fuzzy-valued mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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D. DU B O I S , E. HU€ L L E R M E I E R A N D H. PR A D E On the representation of fuzzy rules in terms of crisp rules . . . . . . . . 301
Volume 152, June 2003 V.G. GR I S H I N , A.S. SU L A A N D M. UL I E R U Pictorial analysis: a multi-resolution data visualization approach for monitoring and diagnosis of complex systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.C.L. NG O , L.S. TE O A N D J.G. BY R N E Modelling interface aesthetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.-S. HA N , Y.-S. MO O N A N D K.-Y. WH A N G PrefetchGuide: capturing navigational access patterns for prefetching in client/server object-oriented/object-relational DBMSs . . . . . . . . . . J.-H . YE H , R. CH O W A N D R. NE W M A N Key assignment for enforcing access control policy exceptions in distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T.Y. CH E N A N D M.F. LA U On the divide-and-conquer approach towards test suite reduction . . . Y.-K. LE E , K.-Y. WH A N G , Y.-S. MO O N A N D I.-Y. SO N G An aggregation algorithm using a multidimensional file in multidimensional OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. KN O C K A E R T On scale and concentration invariance in entropies . . . . . . . . . . . . . R.P. SI N G H , R. KU M A R A N D R.K. TU T E J A Application of Holder’s inequality in information theory . . . . . . . . . D. PE I A N D G. WA N G The extensions Ln of the formal system L and their completeness B. DE BA E T S A N D H. DE ME Y E R On the existence and construction of T-transitive closures . . . . . . . . Q. DU A N , K. DJ I D J E L I , W.G. PR I C E A N D E.H. TW I Z E L L Constrained control and approximation properties of a rational interpolating curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. KA K General qubit errors cannot be corrected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.B. JU N , H.S. KI M A N D S.S. AH N Special classes of positive implication algebras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. ZH U A N D F.-Y. WA N G Reduction and axiomization of covering generalized rough sets. . . . .
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N. KE H A Y O P U L U A N D M. TS I N G E L I S The embedding of an ordered groupoid into a poe-groupoid in terms of fuzzy sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. BO D J A N O V A Alpha-bounds of fuzzy numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. MO N T E S , I. CO U S O A N D P. GI L Fuzzy d–e-partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-W. PA R K LMI-based robust stability analysis for fuzzy feedback linearization regulators with its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. JI M E´ N E Z , J.M. CA D E N A S , J.L. VE R D E G A Y A N D G. SA´ N C H E Z Solving fuzzy optimization problems by evolutionary algorithms. . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Dissimilarity measures between fuzzy sets or fuzzy structures . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Strong arcs in fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Fuzzy end nodes in fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volume 153, July 2003 Y. SH A N G A N D M.P.J. FR O M H E R Z Experimental complexity analysis of continuous constraint satisfaction problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. LI U , X. LI N , M. OR L O W S K A A N D X. ZH O U Confirmation: increasing resource availability for transactional workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.-R. CH E N A N D Y.H. CH I N An adaptive scheduler for distributed real-time database systems . . . Y. LE U N G A N D D. LI Maximal consistent block technique for rule acquisition in incomplete information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. OU S S A L A H On the use of Hamacher’s t-norms family for information aggregation M. OU S S A L A H A N D J. DE SC H U T T E R Approximated fuzzy LR computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.-M. LE E , S.-Y. LE E , T.-Y. LE E A N D J.-J. CH E N A new algorithm for applying fuzzy set theory to evaluate the rate of aggregative risk in software development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. PE D R Y C Z A N D A. BA R G I E L A Fuzzy fractal dimensions and fuzzy modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Y.-C. HS U , G. CH E N , S. TO N G A N D H.-X. LI Integrated fuzzy modeling and adaptive control for nonlinear systems 217 S.-Z. BA I PS-convergence theory of fuzzy nets and its applications . . . . . . . . . 237 Volume 154, Numbers 1–2, August 2003 Q. LI A N D T.K. SH I H Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.M.T. YA U , H.V. LE O N G A N D A. SI Distributed agent environment: application and performance . . . . . . T. KO M I Y A , T. EN O K I D O A N D M. TA K I Z A W A Mobile agent model for transaction processing on distributed objects Y.-H. WA N G Image indexing and similarity retrieval based on spatial relationship model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.-P. LI N A N D X.-Y. LI Reinforcement learning based on local state feature learning and policy adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. CA O , S. WA N G A N D L. LI Location dependent query in a mobile environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. NG , F.W.B. LI , R.W.H. LA U , A. SI A N D A. SI U A performance study on multi-server DVE systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volume 154, Numbers 3–4, September 2003 Y. BJ O€ R N S S O N A N D T.A. MA R S L A N D Learning extension parameters in game-tree search . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.L.M. DO N K E R S , J.W.H.M. UI T E R W I J K A N D H.J. V A N DE N HE R I K Admissibility in opponent-model search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA K U T A , T. HA S H I M O T O , J. NA G A S H I M A , J.W.H.M. UI T E R W I J K A N D H. II D A Application of the killer-tree heuristic and the lambda-search method to lines of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.-H. CH E N Soft decomposition search and binary game forest model for move decision in Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. CA Z E N A V E Metarules to improve tactical Go knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. MU€ L L E R Conditional combinatorial games and their application to analyzing capturing races in Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume 155, Numbers 1–2, 1 October 2003 X. WA N G , D. SC H R O E D E R , D. DO B B S A N D V. HO N A V A R Automated data-driven discovery of motif-based protein function classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. YI , N. YU B A Z A K I A N D K. HI R O T A Anti-swing and positioning control of overhead traveling crane. . . . . M. LE E Evolution of behaviors in autonomous robot using artificial neural network and genetic algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. LE E A study of an automatic learning model of adaptation knowledge for case base reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A.R. KO R U K O N D A A N D S. FI N N An investigation of framing and scaling as confounding variables in information outcomes: The case of technophobia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.-K. LI U A N D B. LI U A class of fuzzy random optimization: expected value models . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. BA T T O U On M-strong fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.-Z. BA I Near PS-compact L-subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. NA D A R A J A H A N D K. ZO G R A F O S Formulas for Renyi information and related measures for univariate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.W. CH A N G , T.K. TR U O N G A N D J.H. JE N G VLSI architecture of modified Euclidean algorithm for Reed–Solomon code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. GA O , J. ZH A N G A N D T. ZH O U Law of large numbers for sample mean of random weighting estimate Y.L. LI U , S.Y. LI U , Y. XU A N D K.Y. QI N ILI-ideals and prime LI-ideals in lattice implication algebras . . . . . . .
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Volume 155, Numbers 3–4, 15 October 2003 I. VL A H A V A S Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 M.-L. SH Y U , C. HA R U E C H A I Y A S A K A N D S.-C. CH E N Category cluster discovery from distributed WWW directories . . . . . 181
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N. GI A N N A D A K I S , A. RO W E , M. GH A N E M A N D Y.-K. GU O InfoGrid: providing information integration for knowledge discovery 199 S. PI T T I E , H. KA R G U P T A A N D B.-H. PA R K Dependency detection in MobiMine: a systems perspective . . . . . . . . 227 B. SC O T N E Y A N D S. MC CL E A N Database aggregation of imprecise and uncertain evidence . . . . . . . . 245 Volume 156, Numbers 1–2, 1 November 2003 N. KA S A B O V Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 P. MI T E V A N D S. HA D J I T O D O R O V Fundamental frequency estimation of voice of patients with laryngeal disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 W.H. AB D U L L A A N D N. KA S A B O V Reduced feature-set based parallel CHMM speech recognition systems 21 T.J. RE Y N O L D S A N D C.A. AN T O N I O U Experiments in speech recognition using a modular MLP architecture for acoustic modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 E. TR E N T I N A N D M. MA T A S S O N I Noise-tolerant speech recognition: the SNN-TA approach . . . . . . . . 55 A. GH O B A K H L O U , M. WA T T S A N D N. KA S A B O V Adaptive speech recognition with evolving connectionist systems. . . . 71 M. LA W S , R. KI L G O U R A N D N. KA S A B O V Modeling the emergence of bilingual acoustic clusters: a preliminary case study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 N. IW A H A S H I Language acquisition through a human–robot interface by combining speech, visual, and behavioral information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Volume 156, Numbers 3–4, 15 November 2003 D. WH I T L E Y , R.B. HE C K E N D O R N A N D S. ST E V E N S Hyperplane ranking, nonlinearity and the simple genetic algorithm M. PE L I K A N , D.E. GO L D B E R G A N D S. TS U T S U I Getting the best of both worlds: Discrete and continuous genetic and evolutionary algorithms in concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.C. RI Q U E L M E , J.S. AG U I L A R -RU I Z A N D C. DE L VA L L E Supervised learning by means of accuracy-aware evolutionary algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-K. TI N G , S.-T. LI A N D C. LE E On the harmonious mating strategy through tabu search . . . . . . . . .
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H.J.C. BA R B O S A A N D A.C.C. LE M O N G E A new adaptive penalty scheme for genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 215 U.K. CH A K R A B O R T Y A N D C.Z. JA N I K O W An analysis of Gray versus binary encoding in genetic search . . . . . . 253 Volume 157, December 2003 P.P. WA N G Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. LE E , T. CR I T C H L O W , G. AB D U L L A , C. BA L D W I N , R. KA M I M U R A , R. MU S I C K , R. SN A P P A N D N. TA N G The framework for approximate queries on simulation data . . . . . . . M.J. AT A L L A H A N D S. PR A B H A K A R (Almost) Optimal parallel block access for range queries . . . . . . . . . D. TA N I A R A N D C.H.C. LE U N G The impact of load balancing to object-oriented query execution scheduling in parallel machine environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.-S. HW A N G Diagnosing crosstalk faults algorithm design and analysis in a class of dilated re-arrangeable photonic switching networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.E. PO U N T O U R A K I S Propagation delay latency and a data channel collision avoidance protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.S. OB A I D A T , G.I. PA P A D I M I T R I O U A N D A.S. PO M P O R T S I S Efficient fast learning automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. KA H R A M A N , D. RU A N A N D I. DO gA N Fuzzy group decision-making for facility location selection . . . . . . . . B.M. GH I L A N D Y.K. KI M Continuity of functions defined on the space of fuzzy sets . . . . . . . . Y. XU , J. LI U A N D D. RU A N Rule acquisition and adjustment based on set-valued mapping . . . . . W.C.-K. YE N The bottleneck independent domination on the classes of bipartite graphs and block graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I.-S. HW A N G A N D I.-F. HU A N G The optimal testing in photonic switching networks using tabulation methodology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. YA N A N D J. DE O G U N Multi-drop path model for multicast routing and wavelength assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.S. KI M A N D L.G. KA Z O V S K Y Design and performance evaluation of scheduling algorithms for unslotted CSMA/CA with backoff MAC protocol in multiple-access WDM ring networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. LE E , H. CH O I , S. SU B R A M A N I A M A N D H.-A. CH O I Survivable embedding of logical topologies in WDM ring networks K.K.Y. WO N G , M.E. MA R H I C , K. UE S A K A A N D L.G. KA Z O V S K Y Wavelength exchange: A novel function for optical networks . . . . . . H. SO T O B A Y A S H I , W. CH U J O A N D K.-I . KI T A Y A M A Optical code division multiplexing (OCDM) and its application for peta-bit/s photonic network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. KO O A N D S. SU B R A M A N I A M Performance evaluation of optical mesh restoration schemes . . . . . . . H. CH O I , S. SU B R A M A N I A M A N D H.-A. CH O I Loopback recovery from neighboring double-link failures in WDM mesh networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. TA N C E V S K I Intelligent next generation WDM optical networks . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Volume 149, Number 4, February 2003 T.-L. CH I A , K.-B. WA N G , L.-R. CH E N A N D Z. CH E N A parallel algorithm for generating chain code of objects in binary images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D B. KH A N Optimal distribution of a hierarchy of network management agents T.-C. HU A N G , L.-C. SH I U A N D Y.-J. LI N Generating efficient local memory access sequences for coupled subscripts in data-parallel programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. TE S F A T S I O N Agent-based computational economics: modeling economies as complex adaptive systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E.N. LE I T H Some highlights in the history of information optics . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Q. LI A N D L.-C. CH A N Reactive processing in ADOME-II: an extensible approach . . . . . . . 277 Volume 150, Numbers 1–2, March 2003 R. JO H N Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. FA R O O Q A N D S. DA T T A Phoneme recognition using wavelet based features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.P. AN G E L O V A N D R.A. BU S W E L L Automatic generation of fuzzy rule-based models from data by genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. HA G R A S , V. CA L L A G H A N , M. CO L L E Y A N D G. CL A R K E A hierarchical fuzzy–genetic multi-agent architecture for intelligent buildings online learning, adaptation and control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. CR O O K , T. OL D E SC H E P E R A N D V. PA T H I R A N A Self-organised dynamic recognition states for chaotic neural networks J.A. RO U B O S , M. SE T N E S A N D J. AB O N Y I Learning fuzzy classification rules from labeled data . . . . . . . . . . . . J.W. DA V I D S O N , D.A. SA V I C A N D G.A. WA L T E R S Symbolic and numerical regression: experiments and applications . . . Volume 150, Numbers 3–4, April 2003 M. SA R F R A Z , K. SA L A H A N D M. AH M E D Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. RI N E Human exploration and development of space: using XML database Space Wide Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.J.-Y. CH E N A N D S.-W. SU AgentGateway: A communication tool for multi-agent systems . . . . . V. SA F R O N O V A N D M. PA R A S H A R Optimizing Web servers using Page rank prefetching for clustered accesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA R F R A Z A N D F.A. RA Z Z A K A Web based system to capture outlines of Arabic fonts . . . . . . . . . P.D. MA N U E L A N D J. AL GH A M D I A data-centric design for n-tier architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA D I Q SO H A I L A N D B. SH A N M U G H A M E-banking and customer preferences in Malaysia: An empirical investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume 151, May 2003 B.-J. CH A N G A N D R.-H. HW A N G Analysis of adaptive cost functions for dynamic update policies for QoS routing in hierarchical networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H. LE E A N D J.M. CH A N G An integrated dynamic memory tracing tool for Cþþ . . . . . . . . . . . W.-C. FA N G , C.-C. HS U A N D C.-M. WA N G On the fault-tolerant embeddings of complete binary trees in the mesh interconnection networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. RA O , Y.-H. CH E N G , K.-H. CH A N G A N D Y.-B. LI N iMail: a WAP mail retrieving system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.A. SU H A I L , M.S. OB A I D A T , S.S. IP S O N A N D B. SA D O U N A comparative study of digital watermarking in JPEG and JPEG 2000 environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. AT A N A S I U , C. MA R T I´ N -VI D E A N D V. MI T R A N A On the sentence valuation in a semiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. PE R R I N A N D F.E. PE T R Y Extraction and representation of contextual information for knowledge discovery in texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. DO M I N G O -FE R R E R A N D V. TO R R A On the connections between statistical disclosure control for microdata and some artificial intelligence tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V.I. TO R V I K A N D E. TR I A N T A P H Y L L O U Guided inference of nested monotone Boolean functions . . . . . . . . . F. MA R C E L L O N I Feature selection based on a modified fuzzy C-means algorithm with supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. CH A N G , J.B. PA R K , Y.H. JO O A N D G. CH E N Static output-feedback fuzzy controller for Chen’s chaotic system with uncertainties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y. DI N G , H. YI N G A N D S. SH A O Typical Takagi–Sugeno PI and PD fuzzy controllers: analytical structures and stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.-Z. WU , J.-S. MI A N D W.-X. ZH A N G Generalized fuzzy rough sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GI L A N D L.J. RO D R I´ G U E Z -MU N~ I Z , M. LO P E Z -DI´ A Z , M.A D.A. RA L E S C U The s-differentiability of a fuzzy-valued mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume 152, June 2003 V.G. GR I S H I N , A.S. SU L A A N D M. UL I E R U Pictorial analysis: a multi-resolution data visualization approach for monitoring and diagnosis of complex systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.C.L. NG O , L.S. TE O A N D J.G. BY R N E Modelling interface aesthetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.-S. HA N , Y.-S. MO O N A N D K.-Y. WH A N G PrefetchGuide: capturing navigational access patterns for prefetching in client/server object-oriented/object-relational DBMSs . . . . . . . . . . J.-H . YE H , R. CH O W A N D R. NE W M A N Key assignment for enforcing access control policy exceptions in distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T.Y. CH E N A N D M.F. LA U On the divide-and-conquer approach towards test suite reduction . . . Y.-K. LE E , K.-Y. WH A N G , Y.-S. MO O N A N D I.-Y. SO N G An aggregation algorithm using a multidimensional file in multidimensional OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. KN O C K A E R T On scale and concentration invariance in entropies . . . . . . . . . . . . . R.P. SI N G H , R. KU M A R A N D R.K. TU T E J A Application of Holder’s inequality in information theory . . . . . . . . . D. PE I A N D G. WA N G The extensions Ln of the formal system L and their completeness B. DE BA E T S A N D H. DE ME Y E R On the existence and construction of T-transitive closures . . . . . . . . Q. DU A N , K. DJ I D J E L I , W.G. PR I C E A N D E.H. TW I Z E L L Constrained control and approximation properties of a rational interpolating curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. KA K General qubit errors cannot be corrected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.B. JU N , H.S. KI M A N D S.S. AH N Special classes of positive implication algebras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. ZH U A N D F.-Y. WA N G Reduction and axiomization of covering generalized rough sets. . . . .
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N. KE H A Y O P U L U A N D M. TS I N G E L I S The embedding of an ordered groupoid into a poe-groupoid in terms of fuzzy sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. BO D J A N O V A Alpha-bounds of fuzzy numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. MO N T E S , I. CO U S O A N D P. GI L Fuzzy d–e-partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-W. PA R K LMI-based robust stability analysis for fuzzy feedback linearization regulators with its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F. JI M E´ N E Z , J.M. CA D E N A S , J.L. VE R D E G A Y A N D G. SA´ N C H E Z Solving fuzzy optimization problems by evolutionary algorithms. . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Dissimilarity measures between fuzzy sets or fuzzy structures . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Strong arcs in fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. RO S E N F E L D Fuzzy end nodes in fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volume 153, July 2003 Y. SH A N G A N D M.P.J. FR O M H E R Z Experimental complexity analysis of continuous constraint satisfaction problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. LI U , X. LI N , M. OR L O W S K A A N D X. ZH O U Confirmation: increasing resource availability for transactional workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.-R. CH E N A N D Y.H. CH I N An adaptive scheduler for distributed real-time database systems . . . Y. LE U N G A N D D. LI Maximal consistent block technique for rule acquisition in incomplete information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. OU S S A L A H On the use of Hamacher’s t-norms family for information aggregation M. OU S S A L A H A N D J. DE SC H U T T E R Approximated fuzzy LR computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.-M. LE E , S.-Y. LE E , T.-Y. LE E A N D J.-J. CH E N A new algorithm for applying fuzzy set theory to evaluate the rate of aggregative risk in software development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. PE D R Y C Z A N D A. BA R G I E L A Fuzzy fractal dimensions and fuzzy modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Y.-C. HS U , G. CH E N , S. TO N G A N D H.-X. LI Integrated fuzzy modeling and adaptive control for nonlinear systems 217 S.-Z. BA I PS-convergence theory of fuzzy nets and its applications . . . . . . . . . 237 Volume 154, Numbers 1–2, August 2003 Q. LI A N D T.K. SH I H Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.M.T. YA U , H.V. LE O N G A N D A. SI Distributed agent environment: application and performance . . . . . . T. KO M I Y A , T. EN O K I D O A N D M. TA K I Z A W A Mobile agent model for transaction processing on distributed objects Y.-H. WA N G Image indexing and similarity retrieval based on spatial relationship model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.-P. LI N A N D X.-Y. LI Reinforcement learning based on local state feature learning and policy adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. CA O , S. WA N G A N D L. LI Location dependent query in a mobile environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. NG , F.W.B. LI , R.W.H. LA U , A. SI A N D A. SI U A performance study on multi-server DVE systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . Volume 154, Numbers 3–4, September 2003 Y. BJ O€ R N S S O N A N D T.A. MA R S L A N D Learning extension parameters in game-tree search . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.L.M. DO N K E R S , J.W.H.M. UI T E R W I J K A N D H.J. V A N DE N HE R I K Admissibility in opponent-model search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. SA K U T A , T. HA S H I M O T O , J. NA G A S H I M A , J.W.H.M. UI T E R W I J K A N D H. II D A Application of the killer-tree heuristic and the lambda-search method to lines of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.-H. CH E N Soft decomposition search and binary game forest model for move decision in Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. CA Z E N A V E Metarules to improve tactical Go knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. MU€ L L E R Conditional combinatorial games and their application to analyzing capturing races in Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume 155, Numbers 1–2, 1 October 2003 X. WA N G , D. SC H R O E D E R , D. DO B B S A N D V. HO N A V A R Automated data-driven discovery of motif-based protein function classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. YI , N. YU B A Z A K I A N D K. HI R O T A Anti-swing and positioning control of overhead traveling crane. . . . . M. LE E Evolution of behaviors in autonomous robot using artificial neural network and genetic algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. LE E A study of an automatic learning model of adaptation knowledge for case base reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A.R. KO R U K O N D A A N D S. FI N N An investigation of framing and scaling as confounding variables in information outcomes: The case of technophobia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.-K. LI U A N D B. LI U A class of fuzzy random optimization: expected value models . . . . . . K.R. BH U T A N I A N D A. BA T T O U On M-strong fuzzy graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S.-Z. BA I Near PS-compact L-subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. NA D A R A J A H A N D K. ZO G R A F O S Formulas for Renyi information and related measures for univariate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y.W. CH A N G , T.K. TR U O N G A N D J.H. JE N G VLSI architecture of modified Euclidean algorithm for Reed–Solomon code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. GA O , J. ZH A N G A N D T. ZH O U Law of large numbers for sample mean of random weighting estimate Y.L. LI U , S.Y. LI U , Y. XU A N D K.Y. QI N ILI-ideals and prime LI-ideals in lattice implication algebras . . . . . . .
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N. GI A N N A D A K I S , A. RO W E , M. GH A N E M A N D Y.-K. GU O InfoGrid: providing information integration for knowledge discovery 199 S. PI T T I E , H. KA R G U P T A A N D B.-H. PA R K Dependency detection in MobiMine: a systems perspective . . . . . . . . 227 B. SC O T N E Y A N D S. MC CL E A N Database aggregation of imprecise and uncertain evidence . . . . . . . . 245 Volume 156, Numbers 1–2, 1 November 2003 N. KA S A B O V Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 P. MI T E V A N D S. HA D J I T O D O R O V Fundamental frequency estimation of voice of patients with laryngeal disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 W.H. AB D U L L A A N D N. KA S A B O V Reduced feature-set based parallel CHMM speech recognition systems 21 T.J. RE Y N O L D S A N D C.A. AN T O N I O U Experiments in speech recognition using a modular MLP architecture for acoustic modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 E. TR E N T I N A N D M. MA T A S S O N I Noise-tolerant speech recognition: the SNN-TA approach . . . . . . . . 55 A. GH O B A K H L O U , M. WA T T S A N D N. KA S A B O V Adaptive speech recognition with evolving connectionist systems. . . . 71 M. LA W S , R. KI L G O U R A N D N. KA S A B O V Modeling the emergence of bilingual acoustic clusters: a preliminary case study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 N. IW A H A S H I Language acquisition through a human–robot interface by combining speech, visual, and behavioral information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Volume 156, Numbers 3–4, 15 November 2003 D. WH I T L E Y , R.B. HE C K E N D O R N A N D S. ST E V E N S Hyperplane ranking, nonlinearity and the simple genetic algorithm M. PE L I K A N , D.E. GO L D B E R G A N D S. TS U T S U I Getting the best of both worlds: Discrete and continuous genetic and evolutionary algorithms in concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.C. RI Q U E L M E , J.S. AG U I L A R -RU I Z A N D C. DE L VA L L E Supervised learning by means of accuracy-aware evolutionary algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-K. TI N G , S.-T. LI A N D C. LE E On the harmonious mating strategy through tabu search . . . . . . . . .
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H.J.C. BA R B O S A A N D A.C.C. LE M O N G E A new adaptive penalty scheme for genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 215 U.K. CH A K R A B O R T Y A N D C.Z. JA N I K O W An analysis of Gray versus binary encoding in genetic search . . . . . . 253 Volume 157, December 2003 P.P. WA N G Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. LE E , T. CR I T C H L O W , G. AB D U L L A , C. BA L D W I N , R. KA M I M U R A , R. MU S I C K , R. SN A P P A N D N. TA N G The framework for approximate queries on simulation data . . . . . . . M.J. AT A L L A H A N D S. PR A B H A K A R (Almost) Optimal parallel block access for range queries . . . . . . . . . D. TA N I A R A N D C.H.C. LE U N G The impact of load balancing to object-oriented query execution scheduling in parallel machine environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.-S. HW A N G Diagnosing crosstalk faults algorithm design and analysis in a class of dilated re-arrangeable photonic switching networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.E. PO U N T O U R A K I S Propagation delay latency and a data channel collision avoidance protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.S. OB A I D A T , G.I. PA P A D I M I T R I O U A N D A.S. PO M P O R T S I S Efficient fast learning automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. KA H R A M A N , D. RU A N A N D I. DO gA N Fuzzy group decision-making for facility location selection . . . . . . . . B.M. GH I L A N D Y.K. KI M Continuity of functions defined on the space of fuzzy sets . . . . . . . . Y. XU , J. LI U A N D D. RU A N Rule acquisition and adjustment based on set-valued mapping . . . . . W.C.-K. YE N The bottleneck independent domination on the classes of bipartite graphs and block graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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