CALL FOR PAPERS Announcing a New Journal MULTIPLE-VALUED LOGIC An International Journal The aim of Multiple-Valued Logic - - An International Journal is to publish and disseminate knowledge internationally in the area of multiple-valued logic. Specific topics include: MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF MVL: algebra, logic, spectral methods ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF MVL: circuit design, programmable logic, hardware and software verification, testing, analog and digital VLSI and ULSI, new concept devices and architectures: biocomputing and optical computing MVL AND AUTOMATED REASONING: learning , reasoning, theorem proving, expert systems, neural networks COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MVL: databases, massively parallel systems THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF FUZZY LOGIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF FUZZY LOGIC Papers should contain original results that have neither been submitted to, nor appeared in any journal. The journal will also publish survey papers. CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE SUBMITTED TO THE MANAGING EDITORS OR TO ANY MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD. MANAGING EDITORS: Dan A. Simovici University of Massachusetts at Boston, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Boston, MA 02125, USA, tel.: (617) 287-6472, e-mail: dsim@cs.umb.edu Ivan Stojmenovic University of Ottawa, Department of Computer Science, Ottawa, K1N 9B4, CANADA, tel.: (613) 564-5982, e-mail: ivan@csi.uottawa.ca EDITORS OF MVL-IJ Joel Berman Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60680-4348 USA u10391@uic.edu Randal E. Bryant School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg, PA 15213 USA Randy.Bryant@cs.cmu.edu Jon T. Butler Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Naval Postgraduate School Code EC/Bu Monterey, CA 93943-5121 USA butler@cs.nps.navy.mil K. Wayne Current Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA current@ece.ucdavis.edu Janos Demetrovics Computer & Automation Institute Hungarian Academy of Science H-1111 Budapest L gym nyosi u. 11 Hungary h935dem@ella.hu Gerhard Dueck Department of Mathematics and Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, N.S. B2G 2W5 Canada dueck@phoenix.stfx.ca George Epstein Computer Science Department University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC 28223 USA Daniel Etiemble LRI-UA 410 CNRS Bat 490, Universit Paris Sud 91405 Orsay Cedex France de@lri.lri.fr Yutaka Hata Faculty of Engineering Himeji Institute of Technology 2167, Shosha Himeji, 671-22 Japan hata@comp.eng.himeji-tech.ac.jp Tatsuo Higuchi Department of System Information Sciences Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University, Aoba Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980 Japan thiguchi@higuchi.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp Mou Hu Computer Engineering Shanghai Institute of Railway Technology Shanghai 200333 China Stanley L. Hurst Faculty of Technology, Electronics Discipline Walton Hall Milton Keynes, MK7.6AA England Michitaka Kameyama Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University, Aoba Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980 Japan michi@kameyama.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp Robert A. Melter Department of Mathematics Long Island University Southampton, NY 11968 USA melter@seaweed.liunet.edu D. Michael Miller Department of Computer Science University of Victoria P.O.Box 3055 Victoria BC V8W 3P6 Canada dmill@csr.uvic.ca Claudio Moraga Department of Computer Science University of Dortmund 44221 Dortmund Germany moraga@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Masao Mukaidono Department of Computer Science Meiji University 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku Kawasaki-shi, 214 Japan masao@cs.meiji.ac.jp Jon C. Muzio Department of Computer Science University of Victoria P.O.Box 3055 Victoria BC V8W 3P6 Canada jmuzio@csr.uvic.ca Marek A. Perkowski Department of Electrical Engineering Portland State University Portland, OR 97207-0751 USA mperkows@ee.pdx.edu Corina Reischer Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Qu bec at Trois-Rivi res Trois-Rivi res, Qu bec G9A 5H7 Canada corina-reischer@uqtr.uquebec.ca Ivo G. Rosenberg Math. Stat. 207 Universit de Montr al C.P. 6128, succursale A Montr al, Qu bec H3C 3J7 Canada rosenb@ere.umontreal.ca Elie Sanchez University of Marseille and NEURINFO, IMT Technop le de Ch teau-Gombert 13451 Marseille cedex 20 France sanchez@imt950.imt-mrs.fr Tsutomu Sasao Kyushu Institute of Technology Iizuka 820 Japan sasao@cse.kyutech.ac.jp Charles B. Silio Electrical Engineering Department University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 USA silio@eng.umd.edu Kenneth C. Smith Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Canada lfujino@csri.toronto.edu Helmut Thiele Department of Computer Science 1 University of Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund Germany thiele@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Ratko Tosic Institute of Mathematics University of Novi Sad Trg Dositeja Obradovica 4 21000 Novi Sad Yugoslavia ratosic%unsim@yubgef51.bitnet Lotfi A. Zadeh Computer Science Division and the Electronics Research Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu