Information Sciences, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, August 1986

• M. A. Aizerman:
  Foreword. 1-5
  
• Boris M. Litvakov, Vladimir I. Vol'skiy:
  Tournament methods in choice theory. 7-40
  
• Fouad T. Aleskerov, Andrey V. Vladimirov:
  Hierarchical voting. 41-86
  
• Zoya M. Lesina:
  Control of social choice systems. 87-94
  
• Sergey G. Novicov:
  Asymptotic properties of the paths in a specific voting model. 95-109
  
• Boris A. Berezovskiy, Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Alexander V. Gnedin:
  On a class of best-choice problems. 111-127
  

Volume 39, Number 2, September 1986

• Ryszard Jakubowski:
  A structural representation of shape and its features. 129-151
  
• Nalinakshi Nirmal:
  Normal form of extended table matrix L systems. 153-173
  
• Silviu Guiasu:
  The relative dimension of a probabilistic experiment. 175-185
  
• Chin-Chen Chang:
  A scheme for constructing ordered minimal perfect hashing functions. 187-195
  
• Gy. Fuhrmann:
  Arithmetic codes resembling neural encoding. 197-203
  
• Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  Weighted minimum and maximum operations in fuzzy set theory. 205-210
  
• Inder Jeet Taneja:
  A Short Note on the Redundancy of Degree alpha. 211-216
  

Volume 39, Number 3, October 1986

• Sudarshan K. Dhall, S. Lakshmivarahan:
  Effect of data organization in a system of interleaved memories on the performance of parallel search. 219-245
  
• N. P. Mukherjee, Prabir Bhattacharya:
  Fuzzy groups: Some group-theoretic analogs. 247-267
  
• Giangiacomo Gerla:
  On fuzzy convergence. 269-283
  
• Jung-Guk Kim, Gil Kim:
  Design of optimal filters for error-feedback quantization of monochrome pictures. 285-298
  
• Si-Yeong Hwang, Jung Wan Cho:
  An improved protocol validation technique for a class of communication models. 299-309