CALL FOR PAPERS
          TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, PART I

                          Special issue
                                on
         CHAOS SYNCHRONIZATION, CONTROL AND APPLICATIONS

                           October 1997


   In the last few years we observed a tremendous interest in the studies 
of chaotic and complicated phenomena in circuits and systems. Numerous special 
sessions at world-wide conferences and several special issues of journals 
including the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems have been devoted to 
the analysis of such phenomena in circuits and systems. 
   With the discovery of specific synchronization approaches and development 
of control concepts, chaos research has now reached the stage of successful 
applications. We have seen in the last three years stunning examples 
of applications from defibrillation, epilepsy control, stabilization of the 
intensity of a laser beam, control of trajectories of spacecraft to control 
of house-hold heating and refrigerators. Every month, journals are bringing 
descriptions of new developments, novel ideas and applications.

The topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to
	* Chaos synchronization techniques for discrete- and continuous- time 
	   systems
	* Chaos control concepts and algorithms
	* Synchronisation and control of hyperchaos
	* Synchronisation and control of spatiotemporal and neural systems
	* Electronic chaos controllers
	* Applications in biology and medicine
	* Applications in signal processing and transmission
	* Other applications (laser optics, power electronics, commercial 
 	   applications etc.)
	* Targetting and applications
	* Advances in synchronization theory

Guest Editors

Dr. M. Peter Kennedy                       Dr. Maciej J. Ogorzalek
Department of Electronic and               Department of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering                     University of Mining and Metallurgy
University College Dublin                  al. Mickiewicza 30
Dublin 4, Ireland                          30-059 Krakow, Poland


Manuscripts are subject to review and should be submitted to either of the 
two guest editors before 
                         January 15, 1997. 
All manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the 
Information for Authorsą printed in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits 
and Systems, Part I.