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This volume contains fifty-six revised and extended research articles, written by prominent researchers participating in the congress. Topics covered include electrical engineering, chemical engineering, circuits, computer science, communications systems, engineering mathematics, systems engineering, manufacture engineering and industrial applications.

This book offers theoretical advances in engineering technologies and presents state of the art applications. It also serves as an excellent source of reference for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies.

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Dr. Haeng-Kon Kim is currently a Dean of engineering college and a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Catholic University of Daegu, in Korea. He has been a research staff member in Bell Lab. and NASA center in U.S.A. Professor Kim is chief editor of KIPS SE-Sig journal and Korea Multimedia Society, an editorial board of KISS (Korea Information Science Society) and a steering committee of KIPS (Korea Information Processing Society).

Dr. Sio-Iong Ao finished his doctoral research in The University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral researches in the University of Oxford and Harvard University. Dr. Ao is a former visiting professor of Cranfield University, U.K. & University of Wyoming, USA.

Dr. Mahyar A. Amouzegar is Dean and a professor of the College of Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.

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