CONTENTS OF VOLUME 36 NUMBER I1—15 JANUARY 2005 Editorial Recursive approach of optimal Kalman filtering problem for multiparameter singularly perturbed Systems H. MUKAIDANI ... ... ... Fixed-order controller dela Se een ¢t ime-invariantd escriptors ystems: a ‘BMI approach X. HUANG and B. HUANG ... ... ... Delay-dependent robust guaranteed cost ound of :a n uncertain niess ystem 1 with state eeei nputa ns J. Gao and B. HUANG New results of robust ape stabilizing cnn evu ncertain viene: time-i e systems H. Su, X. Ji andJ . Cuu. és a TGS, Warehouse sizing and inventory ediine for auiiele pe eunibets a V. V. Petinis, C. D. TARANTILIS and C. T. KIRANOUDIS Optimal taxation in national economies. Net income entropy, weighted antnniainicanailtiten “ih pan saving propensities G. JUMARIE NUMBER 2—10 FEBRUARY 2005 Design of real-time periodic control systems ne synchronization and fixed priorities D. SIMON and F. BENATTAR = Fuzzy modelling control for aircraft automatic hatings ystem J.-G. JUANG and J.-Z. CHIo ‘ : Picuas cant Neurofuzzy modelling of the reflow aint pon for atin mounti eanenalily T.-N. Tsal, T. YANG and P.-A. Hou An inverse European option problem in estimating om dengan volatility mais with statistical analysis Beart SEPPINy CHRON cI W-o RMD AIG 5 oss fra to sodden cota en ateca weal cuereae wasudae seek sebcuen doerdconcetaes NUMBER 3—20 FEBRUARY 2005 Distributed optimal fusion steady-state Kalman filter for systems with coloured measurement noises S.-L. SuN and Z.-L. DENG ... ... ... pene re ree Self-organizing fuzzy control of active suspension systems R.-J. LIAN, B.-F. LIN and W.-T. Sie ; The wavelet--NARMAX representation: A hybrid ahi structure» aaibiies os wane aaere with multiresolution wavelet decompositions S. A. BILLINGs and H. L. WEL.. Successive approximatien approach of optimalc nn fore uiines ‘ahiente time systems G.-Y. TANG and H.-H. WANG Design of a discrete robust controller using a first-l ia mene seein a EC IID go oe aaa ska gud en Wag Saas BL AaNLae's, on bad, thes Face. Ko 5a how Sabrgbe NUMBER 4—15 MARCH 2005 A new gy structure siiomnenran algorithm for onpeenities target tracking Canes ales based sliding ne cue celine for non-minimum neailaiien systems X. WANG, Z. CHEN and Z. YUAN da ii Discrete fuzzy covariance control for specified dine rate W.-J. CHANG and C.-C. SHING pines A shock model with two-type failures and optimale lemnnaes nithis G. J. WANG and Y. L. ZHANG Fault accommodation for nonlinear systems using vom atin sliding atta Y. ZHANG, F. WANG, T. HESKETH, D. J. CLEMENTS and R. EATON 1V Iterative learning controllers for discrete-time large-scale systems to track trajectories with distinct magnitudes X. RuAN, Z. BlEN and K.-H. PARK. Optimal supervisory control under sailed anne ation ne MU MIE Ac NUE ona, cen Chases an Sk pie HER Aas: dus Kn Jew nk; po ang eas aba ee onset nee Que Ave eet ai NUMBER 5—15 APRIL 2005 Valuation of expansion flexibility in flexible manufacturing system investments using sequential exchange options E. E. Karsak and C. O. OzoGul Shei Go ahs cae aaictenneasisiec ae On solving permutation scheduling problems with antt ekn optimization D. MERKLE and M. MIDDENDORF aad Bk “ine sw lands On a generalized k-out-of-n system and its reliability L. Cur and M. Xie. be ; Delay-dependent stability and stabilizability of | uncertain jump eee ebeuite systems with tied dependent time-delays Z.-H. GUAN, W.-H. CHEN and J. Xu Discrete- time H™ filtering with initial condition Robust deneunedlinnd faste- inen niin seitiabaga seat power system stabilizer for a ry mndhdes power system R. Gupta, B. BANDOPADHYAY and A. M. KULKARNI NUMBER 6—15 MAY 2005 Modelling and asset allocation for financial markets based on a stochastic volatility microstructure model H. PENG, Y. TAMURA, W. Gui and T. OZAKI aie A mixed inventory model with variable lead time and conten bentes rate R. lL. ZEQUEIRA, A. DURAN and G. GUTIERREZ. ; a cht eee bie teen A robust algorithm for model-following control of sales ache systems,— itns ndiieuienst o a non- holonomic robot and an aircraft Y. HAN. Gain sisiling wate of ‘eaiiees daniels ovate 1ti me-varying systems with aettentiee information H.-L. Cuor and J.-T. Lim sia aie Naa teh Bien el ea On the design of a reduced-order H ~ contains for nulionns cnnaginitss ate systems ee a TU ais tke rn cc Sno a dae Wa Ron de WEN RAT RE FT UK Hen w S a On the existence of duality gaps for mixed integer programming Y. TANAKA NUMBER 7—10 JUNE 2005 Forecasting warranty performance in the presence of the ‘maturing data’ phenomenon B. Rat and N. SINGH ... ... ... ee stabilization of witeinaaes ystems Z. Ji, L. WANG and G. XIE. Onin controller and filter selina using finite--ppr ecision,», Cintiapeiiten sattinietiec . F. WHIDBORNE, D.-W. Gu, J. Wu and S. CHEN Peston of self- and cross-diffusion on wave train solutions of sonsebiinstilibidibin systems B. MUKHOPADHYAY and R. BHATTACHARYYA The optimal used period of penegnnt — with leadtime after ae warranty expiry J.-P. JHANG Robust sliding mode anil: aessi gn sunaaeen for stabilization of esate ariable dase tthey systems with parameter perturbations and external disturbances E. M. JAFARO\ NUMBER 8—20 JUNE 2005 Delay-dependent and delay-independent energy-to-peak model approximation for systems with time- varying delay Q. WanG, J. LAM, S. Xu and H. Gao. ise Seat Global stabilization of a class of time-delay onlin systems X. ZHANG and Z. CHENG A new delay-dependent stability criterion = nee: ueuneabes ystems witsn orm-v eel uncertainties in all system matrices Q.-L. HANn.. ’ fede ata uineer ad: mee ap adda teal mae On the suhetiain of the shins problem fe niin systemsr e MPC L. MAGNI and R. SCATTOLINI . An infinite €-bound stability criterion i ai er of ndiieamaie agate neetiahi dineeas systems J.-S. Cuiou and C.-J. WANG A new fast cellular automata orthogonal uestenueitie identification mnuea S. A. BILLinGcs and S. S. MEI ... ... ... .. On the stability of price-adjusting elgagdlion with emai iabinnbation C. CHIARELLA and F. SZIDAROVSZKY NUMBER 9—15 JULY 2005 Special Issue: Robots and Sensors for Landmine Detection Editorial: Robots and sensors for landmine detection C. KAMBHAMPATI and S. RAJASEKHARAN ... ... ... vies Canadian teleoperated landmine detection systems. Part I:T he enbeiel leubiine anneien wernee A. A. Faust, R. H. CHESNEY, Y. Das, J. E. MCFEE and K. L. RUSSELL aN ee Canadian teleoperated landmine detection systems. Part Il: Antipersonnel landmine detection A. A. Faust, R. H. CHEsNgey, Y. Das, J. E. MCFEE and K. L. RUSSELL DYLEMA: Using walking robots for landmine detection and location P. G. DE SANTOS, E. Garcia, J. ESTREMERaAn d M. A. ARMADA We eee Modelling uneven terrain for geo-location of mines detected via vehicular aii sensors S. KANSAL, G. Cook, C. AMAZEEN and K. SHERBONDY. ge ee eet Strength of landmine signatures under different soil seine egitedions fens ensor + tele R. LE. VAN Dam, B. BorRCHERS and J. M. H. HENDRICKX Thermal detection of buried landmines by local heating M. BALsi and M. CORCIONE NUMBER 10—15 AUGUST 2005 Optimal recursive estimation for discrete-time descriptor systems Be. eh re UCIT We I cy an ee ncn, cad sac ced ens. dee nea lphe: eemince cae cen New recursive estimators from correlated interrupted observations using covariance information S. NAKAMORI, R. CABALLERO-AGUILA, A. HERMOSO-CARAZO and J. LINARES-PEREZ Determining optimal warranty periods from the seller’s perspective and optimal out-of-warranty replacement age from the buyer's perspective ¥.-08: CORON... .:: Design of an analytic actebiians prciiadine omniiiinn using amit neue T. J. J. VAN DEN Boom, M. A. Botto and P. HOEKSTRA Equilibrium stability in decentralized design systems V. CHANRON, T. SINGH and K. LEwIs ... ... ... Existence of solutions to MIMO relay feedback systems C. Lin, Q.-G. WANG and T. H. LEE NUMBER 11—15 SEPTEMBER 2005 Special Issue: Reliability Guest Editorial H. PHAM ; hehe hes Evaluation of ehiinabesa vv ailability tie ~ imperfect widen dtheusine mete C. H. Lee, S. M. Lee and D. H. Park.. Analysis and design of reliable control systems for div traffic sntieiatin Z. CHEN and T. CHANG ....... j are ee Modelling accelerated life testing a on mean eseinal life W. ZHAO and E. A. ELSAYED ... ... .. : seen tey eceiees A study of the optimal use period and nine of ny repairs of a napbialite: quater oie the warranty expires J. P. JHANG ei deav ica ath: Gel ate aes Comparing software fault eniiotons atep ure— .— zero-» -inflated Poisson regression snsitiin T. M. KHOSHGOFTAAR, K. GAo and R. M. SZABo We 5 Cost evaluation for an imperfect-repair model with random repair time J.-H. Lim, D.-K. Kim and D. H. Park NUMBER 12—10 OCTOBER 2005 Dissolved oxygen control for activated sludge processes W. CHotrkowskl, M. A. BRpys and K. KONARCZAK.. Nonlinear channel equalizer design using directional euiabuanrs sndlti-ebipetive optimization N. ZONG and X. HONG Minimising mean tardiness with alternative operations in enon doves sdhetiling J.-S. CHEN and J. C.-H. PAN Solutions of time-varying TS-fuzzy-model- ani pon amic equations using a shifted Chats series approach W.-H. Ho and J.-H. CHou Detection and spy sensors in inetane distributed systems eee mer Une NE, SUUINN ccce Shins: whack Nae pan evel ped dus Bin eek Ren wid Ges dae musi ode aoecntelde NUMBER 13—20 OCTOBER 2005 The optimal robust control policy for uncertain semi-Markov control processes T. Hao, X. HONGSHENG and Y. BAOQUN ... ... ... Sicie apd aan ae. naw nto eg ae Buyer’s optimal ordering policy and payment policy ae senile pene Y.-F. HUANG 80! Impulsive control of Lur’e systems J. T. SUN 809 Approximate solutions for the Maximum Benefit Chinese Postman Problem W. L. PEARN and W. C. CHiu Generalized spare ordering salbiias with mechan inventory time Y.-H. CHIEN Design and analysis of an efficient neural network model for solving nonlinear optimization problems i. OA GELWA, WC. DO AMABAL Gnd EL. V. DO ARRUIDA on. coi nce ces cin Soe css don Soe ce: sins ten ces A simple method for identification of singleton fuzzy models Ss CN, Pee. UU), = 8, NNN RINE, Bec PIE Sic sce 5s kb waa dae de Gam Ses ata eek dew dam en NUMBER 14—15 NOVEMBER 2005 Special Issue: Contemporary Intelligent Systems Methodologies and applications in contemporary intelligent systems V.S. Jorsov, M. B. Hapsiski and V. S. SGUREV Intuitionistic fuzzy interpretations of multi-criteria multi-person oni —y measurement teal dvititen making K. ATANASSOV, G. Pasi and R. YAGER Entropy for fuzzy regression marenes C. Kao and P.-H. LIN eae Gene sequence data sets analysed using a+ Maeeeeieed a ehannet R. Apams, N. Davey, P. KAYE and W. PENSUWON Efficient episode encoding for spatial navigation E. BARAKOVA and T. LOURENS — Ranking of admissible alternatives in satel Sicialen aie Pe gt ee ee I IT lc, NIN sg oceans cre cad phe! acceso “con sits cao aucicas aes ese daerane Inducer: a public domain workbench for data mining M. BRAMER ok ain as Decision making soft vinguiian agents D. V. Lakov and M. V. VASSILEVA . : , ” Analysis of linear and nonlinear anteiniiie eubiiation nidtinds for ‘snahee endian of See images eo Cy Fe. RAV, 5 cs SS ee Fc I wn ia snc sn ecw Gan eed day aad ane ee Hew ees NUMBER 15—15 DECEMBER 2005 Stability estimation of PF M-type pulsed neural networks T. Topo, T. Mori and Y. KUROE Ant search based control optimisation strategy for a abies of wees system DD. Wane and W. Fi: ip... ... ... 2. ' Robust stability conditions for poly aless ystems L. Grman, D. Rosinova, V. VESELY and A. KozAKovA The estimation of the order of an ARMA process using third-order statistics A. AL-SMADI. f4 ye wa ere On nonlinear He sliding aisle outed os ane of aidhion conneh systems J.-X. Xu, Y.-J. PAN, T. H. LEE and L. FRIDMAN ... ... .. Robust mixed H,/H_... filtering for discrete-time delay fuzzy systems VETS Oe PIECE IA DT Or EGR a5 ocak Sere daccna seer aoe Ree ae Aare leage aoe cade vad tea ng SVR as sda lben eueraph dae Apeieed