International Journal of Systems Science, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, 1997

• D. D. Sworder, Jeffrey E. Boyd, G. A. Clapp:
  Image fusion for tracking manoeuvring targets. 1-14
  
• Yo-Ping Huang, Sheng-Fang Wang:
  The identification of fuzzy grey prediction system by genetic algorithms. 15-24
  
• Guoyong Shi:
  A genetic algorithm applied to a classic job-shop scheduling problem. 25-32
  
• Chao-Hsien Pan:
  A study of integer programming formulations for scheduling problems. 33-41
  
• Sudha Jain:
  A comparison of stochastically ordered queues. 43-47
  
• H. Al-Duwaish, M. Nazmul Karim, V. Chandrasekar:
  Hammerstein model identification by multilayer feedforward neural networks. 49-54
  
• Linda Smith, D. Brett Ridgely, David Walker, Jim Luke:
  Application of a mixed H₂/H_infinity approach with a singular H_infinityconstraint. 55-64
  
• Mukul Agarwal:
  Combining neural and conventional paradigms for modelling, prediction and control. 65-81
  
• Edward Szczerbicki:
  Cost-constrained planning for concurrency satisfaction. 83-89
  
• Chia-Chi Tsui:
  Design generalization and adjustment of a failure isolation and accommodation system. 91-97
  
• H. Brian Hwarng:
  A neural network approach to identifying cyclic behaviour on control charts: a comparative study. 99-112
  
• Hongsheng Xi:
  The guaranteed estimation performance filter for discrete-time descriptor systems with uncertain noise. 113-121
  

Volume 28, Number 2, 1997

• G. Vijaya, Vinod Kumar, H. K. Verma:
  Artificial neural network based wave complex detection in electrocardiograms. 125-132
  
• Guoyong Shi:
  Genetic approach to the design of bidirectional associative memory. 133-140
  
• Sunan Huang, Wei Ren:
  New results on the robust bounds of linear uncertain systems. 141-144
  
• Sunan Huang, Wei Ren:
  Design of vehicle following control systems with actuator delays. 145-151
  
• Bibhas Chandra Giri, K. S. Chaudhuri:
  Heuristic models for deteriorating items with shortages and time-varying demand and costs. 153-159
  
• Hua Xu, Hiroaki Mukaidani, Koichi Mizukami:
  New method for composite optimal control of singularly perturbed systems. 161-172
  
• Der-Cherng Liaw, Yew-Wen Liang:
  Feedback stabilization of nonlinear driftless systems with applications to homogeneous-type systems. 173-182
  
• R. M. Palmares, R. H. C. Taicahashi, Pedro L. D. Peres:
  H_infinityand H₂ guaranteed costs computation for uncertain linear systems. 183-188
  
• John B. Allison, Martin R. Breton, D. Brett Ridgely:
  Robust performance using fixed order mixed-norm control. 189-199
  
• S. Z. Stefanov:
  Forecasting of open system behaviour. 201-209
  
• S. Chatterjee, R. B. Misra, S. S. Alam:
  Prediction of software reliability using an auto regressive process. 211-216
  

Volume 28, Number 3, 1997

• P. K. Kulkarni, Vinod Kumar, H. K. Verma:
  Direct Data Compression Techniques for Ecg Signals: Effect of Sampling Frequency on Performance. 217-228
  
• O. Sero-Guillaume, T. Felici, D. Bernardin:
  Asymptotic matching and genetic optimization applied to optimal aerospace design. 229-240
  
• Shey-Huei Sheu:
  An optimal ordering policy of a system subject to shocks. 241-247
  
• L. Anand, V. Mani, Debasish Ghose:
  Availability maximization in machine-repair systems using an optimal load sharing approach. 249-258
  
• Dipanwita Ghosh, A. K. Sarkar:
  Oscillatory Behaviour of an Autotroph-herbivore System with a Type-iii Uptake Function. 259-264
  
• Daw-Shang Hwang, Shao-Kung Chang, Pau-Lo Hsu:
  A practical design for a robust fault detection and isolation system. 265-275
  
• Yao-Yu Hsu, Wen-Liang Chen, Edge Chu Yeh:
  Optimal learning control via cell mapping. 277-282
  
• Pan-Chio Tuan, Tzu-Chung Moh, Sou-Chen Lee, Li-Wei Fong:
  Emitter location using an angle-only tracking filter with own-ship trajectory estimation. 283-295
  
• S. G. Cao, N. W. Rees, G. Feng:
  Lyapunov-like stability theorems for discrete-time fuzzy control systems. 297-308
  
• Tian-Ping Zhang, Chun-Bo Feng:
  Fuzzy variable structure control via output feedback. 309-319
  
• Hou Chunhai, Qian Jixin:
  Stability Criterion for Lq Regulators Including Delayed Perturbations. 321-323
  

Volume 28, Number 4, 1997

• Susy Thomas, B. Bandyopadhyay:
  Variable structure model following control for industrial robots. 325-334
  
• Zhi Qiao Wu, Chris J. Harris:
  A neurofuzzy network structure for modelling and state estimation of unknown nonlinear systems. 335-345
  
• Giancarlo Barbiroli, Daniele Ritelli:
  Dynamical systems in analysing competitiveness and co-existence among technologies. 347-356
  
• Ya Jie Tian, Nobuo Sannomiya:
  Simulation and analysis of the behaviour of a fish school with many individuals by using an aggregated model. 357-364
  
• K. Addi, A. Gonzalez:
  Spatial modelling of vegetation spread. 365-371
  
• Andrey V. Savkin, Ian R. Petersen:
  Robust filtering with missing data and a deterministic description of noise and uncertainty. 373-378
  
• Gennadi M. Ostrovsky, Yu. M. Volin, M. M. Senyavin:
  An approach to solving the optimization problem under uncertainty. 379-390
  
• S. Chatterjee, R. B. Misra, S. S. Alam:
  Joint effect of test effort and learning factor on software reliability and optimal release policy. 391-396
  
• S. G. Cao, N. W. Rees, G. Feng:
  Further results about quadratic stability of continuous-time fuzzy control systems. 397-404
  
• Jason Chao-Hsien Pan, En-Tsu Fan:
  Two-machine flowshop scheduling to minimize total tardiness. 405-414
  
• Fuli Wang, Mingzhong Li, Yinghuai Yang:
  A neural network-based adaptive pole placement controller for nonlinear systems. 415-421
  
• Salman Talahmeh, Pepe Siy:
  Enhancing Mersenne Transforms by Rns with Application to Discrete Convolution. 423-427
  
• Jian-Xin Xu, Tong Heng Lee, Qing-Wei Jia:
  An adaptive robust control scheme for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. 429-434
  

Volume 28, Number 5, 1997

• J. C. Chiou, M.-C. Hwang, S. D. Wu, J. Y. Yang:
  Robust attitude control of spacecraft using sliding mode control and productive networks. 435-446
  
• Ivan Nunes da Silva, Lúcia Valéria Ramos de Arruda, Wagner Caradori do Amaral:
  Robust estimation of parametric membership regions. 447-455
  
• L. Anand, Debasish Ghose, V. Mani:
  Analysis of the drop-out rule in probabilistic load sharing in distributed computing systems. 457-465
  
• P. N. Smith:
  Environmental project evaluation: a fuzzy logic based method. 467-481
  
• S. C. Saxena, A. Sharma, S. C. Chaudhary:
  Data Compression and Feature Extraction of Ecg Signals. 483-498
  
• H. Zabot, K. Hariche:
  On Solvents-based Model Reduction of Mimo Systems. 499-505
  
• James Lam, Hei Ka Tam:
  Regional pole assignment with eigenstructure robustness. 507-515
  
• Indranil Sengupta, Neeraj Bhatia:
  A genetic algorithm approach to high-level synthesis of digital circuits. 517-522
  
• Akhouri S. C. Sinha, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Maher E. Rizkalla:
  Further results on stabilization of a non-stationary system with delays. 523-527
  
• Hisashi Kando:
  Model reduction for 2D separable denominator systems: a singular perturbation approach. 529-545
  

Volume 28, Number 6, 1997

• Xiao-Yun Lu, Sarah K. Spurgeon, Ian Postlethwaite:
  Robust Variable Structure Control of a PVTOL Aircraft. 547-558
  
• L. N. Sotirov:
  An algorithm for synthesis of optimal singular adaptive observers with direct estimation of the initial state vector. 559-562
  
• Mahmoud A. Younis, Amr F. Hamed:
  A stochastic approach to machine interference problems in robot-served manufacturing systems. 563-570
  
• W. Q. Liu, M. Paskota, V. Sreeram, K. L. Teo:
  Improvement on stability bounds for singularly perturbed systems via state feedback. 571-578
  
• Jin Wang, Wenzhong Gao, Fuli Wang:
  A knowledge-based controller with fuzzy reasoning used in process control. 579-585
  
• S.-H. Lee, J.-T. Lim:
  Locally robustable gain scheduling in nonlinear systems with uncertain time varying inputs. 587-593
  
• Zhengguo Li, Cheong Boon Soh, Xinhe Xu:
  Task-oriented design of hybrid dynamic systems. 595-610
  
• J. Lyu, A. Gunasekaran:
  An intelligent simulation model to evaluate scheduling strategies in a steel company. 611-616
  
• Jati K. Sengupta, Raymond E. Sfeir:
  Modelling exchange rate volatility. 617-624
  

Volume 28, Number 7, 1997

• Jun Hu, Darren M. Dawson, P. Vedagarbha, Hüseyin Canbolat:
  A global adaptive link position-tracking controller for robot manipulators driven by induction motors. 625-642
  
• Shaun McGinnity, George W. Irwin:
  Nonlinear state estimation using fuzzy local linear models. 643-656
  
• Domenico Campisi, Alberto Nastasi, Pierfrancesco Reverberi:
  Reducing information asymmetries in market entry decisions. 657-667
  
• Yan Qiu Chen, Mark S. Nixon, David W. Thomas:
  On texture classification. 669-682
  
• Cha'o-Kuang Chen, Tzu-Li Tien:
  The Indirect Measurement of Tensile Strength by the Deterministic Grey Dynamic Model Dgdm(1, 1, 1). 683-690
  
• K.-H. Cho, J.-T. Lim:
  Stability and robustness of discrete event dynamic systems. 691-703
  
• K. Nitka-Styczen:
  The heredity shift operator in descent approach to the optimal periodic hereditary control problem. 705-719
  
• F. J. Arcelus, D. F. Coleman:
  An efficiency review of university departments. 721-729
  
• Koan-Yuh Chang, Wen-June Wang, Wen-Jer Chang:
  Covariance control for stochastic multivariable systems with hysteresis nonlinearity. 731-736
  

Volume 28, Number 8, 1997

• Giuseppe Conte, Silvia Maria Zanoli:
  A system theoretic approach to automatic data analysis for inspections of underwater structures. 737-748
  
• Yuichi Hattori:
  Proposal of one social choice function with subordinate relations and the relationship between social choice functions with subordinate relations and simple games. 749-754
  
• A. K. Chaudhuri, Debabrata Pal:
  (S, s) inventory policy for single replenishment channel (an alternative approach). 755-758
  
• Shey-Huei Sheu:
  A generalized model for jointly determining the optimal ordering point and the optimal number of minimal repairs before replacement. 759-766
  
• Chi-Hsu Wang, Wei-Yen Wang, Chen-Chien Hsu:
  Minimum-phase criteria for sampled systems via symbolic approach. 767-775
  
• Jian-Xin Xu, Tong Heng Lee, Chen He:
  Controller design for a class of nonlinear multi-input systems using modified sliding mode. 777-789
  
• Jianjun Lu, Paul Brinkley, Shu-Cherng Fang:
  A Fuzzy Expert System Model for Rf Receiver Module Testing. 791-798
  
• Dipak Kesh, A. K. Sarkar, A. B. Roy:
  Qualitative analysis of two resource-based food-web models of three interacting species. 799-807
  
• Jin Wang, Wenzhong Gao, Shusheng Gu, Fuli Wang:
  Pid-like Controller Using a Modified Neural Network. 809-815
  
• Jeong-Woo Lee, Jun-Ho Oh:
  Inversion of multilayer neural network with modelling error compensation. 817-830
  
• P. K. Kulkarni, Vinod Kumar, H. K. Verma:
  Ecg Data Compression Using Fast Walsh Transform and its Clinical Acceptability. 831-836
  
• Zhengguo Li, Cheong Boon Soh, Xinhe Xu:
  Stability of hybrid dynamic systems. 837-846
  
• C. James Li, Tzong-Chyi Tzeng, Y. C. Jeon:
  A Learning Controller Based on a Nonlinear Arx Inverse Model Identified by a Genetic Algorithm. 847-855
  

Volume 28, Number 9, 1997

• Jati K. Sengupta:
  Recent models in dynamic economics: problems of estimating terminal conditions. 857-864
  
• M. Gornik, G. Novak, E. Govekar:
  Modelling coated paper properties: application of neural networks. 865-870
  
• Licong Li:
  Interaction-based input/output analysis of large-scale interconnected systems. 871-876
  
• Alberto Portioli, Nanua Singh:
  A framework for integration of production management issues and concurrent engineering. 877-888
  
• Mohamed Chtourou, Maher Ben Jemaa, Raouf Ketata:
  A learning-automaton-based method for fuzzy inference system identification. 889-896
  
• Cemil Ulus:
  Numerical computation of inner-outer factors for a class of retarded delay systems. 897-904
  
• István Borgulya:
  A ranking method for multiple-criteria decision-making. 905-912
  
• Ricardo H. G. Takahashi, Claudia P. Caldeira, Pedro L. D. Peres:
  A linear dynamic system approach for cattle herd optimal shaping. 913-918
  
• Tian-Guang Chu:
  Analysis of practical stability and Lyapunov stability of linear time-varying neutral delay systems. 919-924
  
• M. De La Sen:
  On the hyperstability of a class of hybrid systems. 925-934
  
• A. K. Chaudhuri, Debabrata Pal:
  (S, s) inventory policy for single replenishment channel - Part 2. 935-942
  

Volume 28, Number 10, 1997

• Jinsong Ouyang, Piyush Maheshwari:
  An efficient approach for constructing reliable distributed applications. 945-959
  
• Peng Shi, Shyh-Pyng Shue:
  H_infinitycontrol of interconnected nonlinear sampled-data systems with parametric uncertainty. 961-976
  
• Der-Chiang Li, Chih-Sen Wu, Kuan-Yeh Torng:
  Using an Unsupervized Neural Network and Decision Tree as Knowledge Acquisition Tools for Fms Scheduling. 977-985
  
• Safaai Deris, Sigeru Omatu, Hiroshi Ohta, Pathiah Abd Samat:
  Object-oriented constraint logic programming for timetable planning. 987-999
  
• K.-H. Cho, J.-T. Lim:
  Fault-tolerant supervisory control of discrete event dynamical systems"". 1001-1009
  
• Tao Zhang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, C. C. Hang:
  Neural-based direct adaptive control for a class of general nonlinear systems. 1011-1020
  

Volume 28, Number 11, 1997

• Pradip K. Srimani:
  Guest Editor's introduction Distributed computing systems. 1021-1024
  
• Yeong-Jia Chen, Daniel Mossé, Shi-Kuo Chang:
  A framework for modelling dependable real-time distributed systems. 1025-1043
  
• Yong Yan, Xing Du, Xiaodong Zhang, Chenxi Zhang:
  Performance bottlenecks and potentials of parallel computing on networks of workstations. 1045-1056
  
• Stephen L. Ambrosius, Richard F. Freund, Stephen L. Scott, Howard Jay Siegel:
  Work-based performance measurement and analysis of virtual heterogeneous machines. 1057-1067
  
• Yuzhen Ge, Layne T. Watson, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr.:
  Cost-effective parallel processing for H/H_infinity controller synthesis. 1069-1076
  
• Pankaj Mehra, Benjamin W. Wah:
  Automated learning of load-balancing strategies in multiprogrammed distributed systems. 1077-1099
  
• Hemal V. Shah, José A. B. Fortes:
  Efficient techniques for performing an irregular computation on distributed memory machines. 1101-1113
  
• Jianxun Jason Ding, Laxmi N. Bhuyan:
  Evaluation of multi-queue buffered multistage interconnection networks under uniform and non-uniform traffic patterns. 1115-1128
  
• Paul C. Attie, Champak Das:
  Automating the refinement of specifications for distributed systems via syntactic transformations. 1129-1144
  
• Roberto Baldoni, Jean-Michel Hélary, Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal:
  Adaptive checkpointing in message passing distributed systems. 1145-1161
  
• Moataz Ahmed, David C. Rine:
  Generating fault-tolerant information distribution rules from high-level requirements specifications. 1163-1176
  
• Joffroy Beauquier, Synnöve Kekkonen-Moneta:
  Fault-tolerance and self-stabilization: impossibility results and solutions using self-stabilizing failure detectors. 1177-1187
  
• Rajib K. Das, Nabanita Das:
  Gse: a Full-access Multistage Interconnection Network of Arbitrary Size. 1189-1194
  

Volume 28, Number 12, 1997

• S. Jagannathan:
  Discrete-time fuzzy logic control of a mobile robot with an onboard manipulator. 1195-1209
  
• K. Najim, A. Rusnák, A. Mészáros, M. Fikar:
  Constrained long-range predictive control based on artificial neural networks. 1211-1226
  
• Faa-Jeng Lin, Rong-Fong Fung, Yueh-Shan Lin:
  Adaptive control of slider-crank mechanism motion: simulations and experiments. 1227-1238
  
• Sandeep Adwankar, Ravi N. Banavar:
  A recurrent network for dynamic system identification. 1239-1250
  
• Fouad Al-Sunni, Taher Al-Nemer:
  A Smith Predictor Fl-based Controller for Processes with Long Dead Time. 1251-1258
  
• Makiko Tsukui, Katsuhisa Furuta:
  An option pricing by eliminating observation noise when the model parameters are unknown. 1259-1283
  
• Benedict Schenker, Mukul Agarwal:
  Dynamic modelling using neural networks. 1285-1298
  
• A. B. M. Zohrul Kabir, S. H. A. Farrash:
  A fixed interval ordering policy for joint optimization of age replacement and spare part provisioning. 1299-1309
  
• Bugong Xu:
  Stability robustness bounds for linear systems with multiple time-varying delayed perturbations. 1311-1317
  
• Danny I. Cho:
  Two-level optimization for decentralized production and advertising planning. 1319-1323
  
• Guang-Da Hui, Guang-Di Hu:
  Technical note Simple criteria for stability of neutral systems with multiple delays. 1325-1328
  
• Hongzhou Wang, Hoang Pham:
  Correspondence Changes to: 'A quasi renewal process and its applications in imperfect maintenance'. 1329