Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

An International Journal

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Mo Jamshidi

Regents Professor of Electrical Engineering

Director, Autonomous Control Engr. (ACE) Center

125 EECE Building

The University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

Phone: (505) 277 5538

Fax: (505) 291 0013

Email:

HONORARY EDITOR

Lotfi A. Zadeh, Director

BISC Group

University of California, Berkeley, USA

FOUNDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Charles C. Nguyen

Catholic University of America, USA

Email:

EDITORIAL MANAGER

Sandi Moening

Albuquerque, NM, USA

REGIONAL EDITORS

Western U.S.

Anthony Maciejewski

Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

Phone: (303) 491-7956

Fax: (303) 491-2249

Email:

Eastern U.S

François Pin

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P.O. Box 2008

Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA

Phone: (615) 574-6130

Fax: (615) 574-4624

Email:

Europe

P. Dauchez

L.I.R.M.M.

University of Montpellier II

34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Phone: (+33) 67-41-85-61

Fax (+33) 67-41-85-00

Email:

Japan

K. Iwata

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Osaka University

Suita, Osaka, Japan

Phone: (+81) 6-879-7339

Fax: (+81) 6-875-1749

South Pacific

S. Nahavandi

School of Engineering and Technology

Deakin University

Waurn Pounds Campus

Email:

Far East

Z. Bien

Department of Electrical Engineering

K.A.I.S.T.

Taejon 305-701, Korea

Phone: (+82) 42-869-3419

Fax: (+82) 42-869-3410

Email:

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

J. Anderson

Tennessee Tech. University

Cookeville, TN, USA

H. Beigi

Internet Server Connections

Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

K. Bhutani

Catholic University of America

Washington, DC, USA

N. Chbat

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN, USA

Y-B. Chen

Purdue University at Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN, USA

K. C. Cheok

Oakland University

Rochester, MI, USA

B. DeBaets

Ghent University

Ghent, Belgium

I. Duentsch

Brock University

St Catherines, Ontario

CANADA

M. Fathi

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL, USA

X-Z. Gao

Helsinki University of Technology

Espoo, Finland

A. Howard

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA, USA

A. Kamrani

University of Michigan

Dearborn, MI, USA

T. Kwon

University of Minnesota

Duluth, MN, USA

R. Langari

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX, USA

G. Lee

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA, USA

K. S. Leung

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shaatin, Hong Kong

F. Masulli

University of Genova

Genova, ITALY

K. Moore

Utah State University

Logan, UT, USA

I. Nagisetty

Ford Motor Company

Detroit, MI, USA

R. Roberts

FAMU-FSU

Tallahassee, FL, USA

Z. Roth

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, FL, USA

D. Ruan

Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

Mol, Belgium

J. Shanahan

Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE)

Meylan, France

S. Song

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

Y. D. Song

NC A&T State University

Greensboro, NC, USA

E. Tunstel, Jr.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA, USA

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Chair:

Charles C. Nguyen

Catholic University of America

Washington, DC, USA

Email:

D. Al-Gobaisi

Water and Electricity Dept.

Abu Dhabi, UAE

S. Arimoto

Ritsumeikan University

Tokyo, Japan

J. Bezdek

University of West Florida

Pensacola, FL, USA

J. Engelberger

HelpMate Robotics, Inc.

Danbury, CT, USA

M. Gupta

Univ. of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Canada

R. Lumia

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM, USA

J. Albus

NIST

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

G. Bekey

Univ. of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA, USA

M. Brady

Oxford University

Oxford, UK

T. Fukuda

Nagoya University

Nagoya, Japan

H. Koivo

Technical University of Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

M. Kamel

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ONT., CANADA

H. Seraji

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA, USA

J. Angeles

McGill University

Montreal, Canada

C. W. de Silva

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

F. Gomide

Unicamp/Fee/Dca

Campinas, Brazil

T. Y. Lin

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA, USA

R. Patel

University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

T. Yamakawa

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Fukuoka, Japan

J. Yuh

National Science Foundation

Washington, DC, USA

Y. Zheng

Ohio State University

Columbus, OH, USA