edited by Guanrong Chen (City University of Hong Kong, China) & Tetsushi Ueta (Tokushima University, Japan)

In this volume, leading experts present current achievements in the forefront of research in the challenging field of chaos in circuits and systems, with emphasis on engineering perspectives, methodologies, circuitry design techniques, and potential applications of chaos and bifurcation. A combination of overview, tutorial and technical articles, the book describes state-of-the-art research on significant problems in this field. It is suitable for readers ranging from graduate students, university professors, laboratory researchers and industrial practitioners to applied mathematicians and physicists in electrical, electronic, mechanical, physical, chemical and biomedical engineering and science.

• Chaotic Oscillators — Design Principles (E Lindberg et al.)
• Design Methodology for Autonomous Chaotic Oscillators (A S Elwakil & M P Kennedy)
• A Design Method for Chaotic Circuits Using Two Oscillators (Y Hosokawa & Y Nishio)
• Chaotic Wandering in Simple Coupled Chaotic Circuits (Y Nishio)
• Intermittent Chaos in Phase-Locked Loops (T Endo et al.)
• Dynamical Chaos in Phase-Locked Loops (V Shalfeev & V Matrosov)
• A Chaotic Oscillator Based on Two-Port VCCS (M Kataoka & T Saito)
• A Generic Class of Chaotic and Hyperchaotic Circuits with Synchronization Methods (J A K Suykens et al.)
• Some New Circuit Design for Chaos Generation (K S Tang et al.)
• A Current Based VLSI Degree-Two Chaos Generator (L Wang et al.)
• Stochastic Analysis of Electrical Circuits (M A van Wyk & J Ding)
• Chaotic Neuro-Computer (Y Horio & K Aihara)
• Complex Dynamical Behavior in Nearly Symmetric Standard Cellular Neural Networks (M Forti & A Tesi)
• Chaos in a Pulse-type Hardware Neuron Model (K Saeki et al.)
• Bifurcations in Synaptically Coupled Bonhöffer-van der Pol Neurons (K Tsumoto et al.)
• Chaos in Power Electronics: An Overview (M di Bernardo & C K Tse)
• Use of Chaotic Switching for Harmonic Power Redistribution in Power Converters (H S H Chung et al.)
• Experimental Techniques for Investigating Chaos in Electronics (C K Tse)
• Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Interrupted Characteristics: Bifurcation and Control (T Kousaka et al.)
• Controller Synthesis for Periodically Forced Chaotic Systems (M Basso et al.)
• Mechanism for Taming Chaos by Weak Harmonic Perturbations (N Inaba)
• Correlator-Based Chaotic Communications: Attainable Noise and Multipath Performance (G Kolumbán & M P Kennedy)
• Using Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos to Solve Signal Processing Tasks (M Ogorza≈ek)
• Chaos Synchronization in a Noisy Environment Using Kalman Filters (T Schimming & O De Feo)
• Identification of a Parametrized Family of Chaotic Dynamics from Time Series (I Tokuda & R Tokunaga)
• Cipher-Quasi-Chaotic Sequence with Application to Spreading Spectrum Communication Systems (J B Yu)
• Image Processing in Tunneling Phase Logic Cellular Nonlinear Networks (T Yang et al.)
• Numerical Approaches to Bifurcation Analysis (T Ueta & H Kawakami)
• Chaos in One-Dimensional Maps (M A van Wyk & W-H Steeb)