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AMERICAN-MATH '11) 5Th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS (CEA '11 APPLICATIONS of MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER ENGINEERING American Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMERICAN-MATH '11) 5th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS (CEA '11) Puerto Morelos, Mexico January 29-31, 2011 ISSN: 1792-7250 Published by WSEAS Press ISSN: 1792-7714 www.wseas.org ISBN: 978-960-474-270-7 APPLICATIONS of MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER ENGINEERING American Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMERICAN-MATH '11) 5th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS (CEA '11) Puerto Morelos, Mexico January 29-31, 2011 Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org Copyright © 2011, by WSEAS Press All the copyright of the present book belongs to the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Editor of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All papers of the present volume were peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers' recommendations were positive. See also: http://www.worldses.org/review/index.html ISSN: 1792-7250 ISSN: 1792-7714 ISBN: 978-960-474-270-7 World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society APPLICATIONS of MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER ENGINEERING American Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMERICAN-MATH '11) 5th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS (CEA '11) Puerto Morelos, Mexico January 29-31, 2011 Editors: Prof. Alexander Zemliak, Autonomous University of Puebla, MEXICO Prof. Nikos Mastorakis, Technical University of Sofia, BULGARIA International Program Committee Members: George E Andrews, USA Pavel Makagonov, MEXICO Stuart S. Antman, USA Rider Jaimes-Readegui, MEXICO John Tsitsiklis, USA Shaneel Narayan, NEW ZEALAND Dimitris Bertsekas, USA Sherin Youssef, EGYPT Lena Valavani, USA Shin-Shin Kao, TAIWAN Nikolaos Bourbakis, USA Stojan Kravanja, SLOVENIA Irwin W. Sandberg, USA Taeho Jo, KOREA Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA Vicente Aboites, MEXICO Viola Vogel, SWITZERLAND Vladimir Vasek, CZECH REPUBLIC Soren H. Morup, DENMARK Woosaeng Kim, KOREA Robert A. Kosinski, POLAND Zeljko Panian, CROATIA (HRVATSKA) Ivan L'Heureux, CANADA ZHAO zhengjie ZHANG jilong, CHINA Alexander G. Ramm, USA Irwin W. Sandberg, USA Steven Collicott, USA Asad A. Abidi, USA Wilfried B. Kraetzig, GERMANY Andreas Antoniou, USA Nikos E. Mastorakis, BULGARIA Antonio Cantoni, AUSTRALIA Yorgo Istefanopulos, TURKEY Lotfi Zadeh, USA Panos Pardalos, USA George Szentirmai, USA Ronald Yager, USA Michael Peter Kennedy, IRELAND Stamatios Kartalopoulos, USA Paresh C. Sen, CANADA Kleanthis Psarris, USA Michel Gevers, BELGIUM Metin Demiralp, TURKEY James S. Thorp, USA Constantin Udriste, ROMANIA Armen H. Zemanian, USA Amauri Caballero, USA Guanrong Chen, HONG KONG George Vachtsevanos, USA Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, USA Spyros Tragoudas, USA Jim C. Bezdek, USA Olga Martin, ROMANIA A. J. van der Schaft, the NETHERLANDS Demetrios Kazakos, USA Istvan Nagy, Hungary Gamal Elnagar, USA Wasfy B. Mikhael, USA Periklis Papadopoulos, USA M. N. S. Swamy, CANADA Alexander Zemliak, MEXICO M. Araki, JAPAN Alexander Pisarchik, MEXICO Abbas El Gamal, USA Phillip G. Bradford, USA Franco Maloberti, Italy Victor Ramos, MEXICO Alan N. Willson Jr., USA Alexander Grebennikov, MEXICO Yoji Kajitani, JAPAN Alba Sanchez, MEXICO Mohammed Ismail, USA Aleksey Nenarokomov, RUSSIA Kemin Zhou, USA Alexander Grebennikov, MEXICO Ruey-Wen Liu, USA Alireza Yazdizadeh, IRAN Nabil H. Farhat, USA Andres Fraguela Collar, MEXICO John I. Sewell, UK Andrey Ostrovsky, MEXICO Jerry M. Mendel, USA Armando Barranon, MEXICO Magdy A. Bayoumi, USA Divakar Yadav, INDIA Bertram E. Shi, HONG KONG Hasan Cimen, TURKEY M. Omair Ahmad, CANADA Joel Suarez, MEXICO N. K. Bose, USA Jorge alberto Ruiz vanoye, MEXICO Igor Lemberski, LATVIA Karel Slavicek, CZECH REPUBLIC Alfred Fettweis, GERMANY Lotfi Merad, ALGERIA Brockway McMillan, USA Mariko Nakano-Miyatake, MEXICO H. J. Orchard, USA Marius Cioca, ROMANIA Jacob Katzenelson, ISRAEL Nodari Vakhania, MEXICO Vincent Poor, USA Oleg Starostenko, MEXICO Abraham Kandel, USA Osamu Uchida, JAPAN Bor-Sen Chen, CHINA C. S. George Lee, USA Michael Unser, SWITZERLAND Hamid R. Berenji, USA Miguel Angel Lagunas, SPAIN Kevin M. Passino, USA Moeness G. Amin, USA Lawrence O. Hall, USA Mohamed Najim, FRANCE Ronald R. Yager, USA Neil J. Bershad, USA Witold Pedrycz, CANADA P. P. Vaidyanathan, USA Agoryaswami J. Paulraj, USA Patrick Dewilde, NETHERLANDS Ahmed H. Tewfik, USA Peter Willett, USA Alan V. Oppenheim, USA Petre Stoica, SWEDEN Alfonso Farina, ITALY Phillip A. Regalia, FRANCE Alfred O. Hero, USA Pierre Duhamel, FRANCE Ali H. Sayed, USA Pierre Moulin, USA Anders Lindquist, SWEDEN Pramod K. Varshney, USA Arthur B. Baggeroer, USA Rabab Kreidieh Ward, CANADA Arye Nehorai, USA Robert M. Gray, USA Benjamin Friedlander, USA Rolf Unbehauen, GERMANY Bernard C. Levy, USA Ronald W. Schafer, USA Bhaskar D. Rao, USA Rui J. P. Figueiredo, USA Bin Yu, USA Russell M. Mersereau, USA Boualem Boashash, AUSTRALIA Sadaoki Furui, JAPAN Brian D. O. Anderson, AUSTRALIA Shun-Ichi Amari, JAPAN Bruce A. Francis, CANADA Simon Haykin, CANADA C. Richard Johnson, USA Soo-Chang Pei, CHINA C. Sidney Burrus, USA Soura Dasgupta, USA Charles M. Rader, USA Stefan L. Hahn, POLAND Desmond P. Taylor, NEW ZEALAND Steven Kay, USA Donald L. Duttweiler, USA Takao Hinamoto, JAPAN Donald W. Tufts, USA Takashi Matsumoto, JAPAN Douglas L. Jones, USA Tapio Saramaki, FINLAND Earl E. Swartzlander, USA Tariq S. Durrani, U.K. Ed F. Deprettere, the NETHERLANDS Thomas F. Quatieri, USA Edward A. Lee, USA Thomas L. Marzetta, USA Edward J. Powers, USA Thomas S. Huang, USA Ehud Weinstein, ISRAEL Thomas W. Parks, USA Eli Brookner, USA Uri Shaked, ISRAEL Ezio Biglieri, Italy V. John Mathews, USA Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, USA Vladimir Cuperman, USA Georgios B. Giannakis, USA William A. Pearlman, USA Gonzalo R. Arce, USA Wolfgang Fichtner, SWITZERLAND H. Vincent Poor, USA Wu-Sheng Lu, CANADA Hagit Messer, ISRAEL Yaakov Bar-Salom, USA Joos Vandewalle, BELGIUM Yingbo Hua, USA Jose C. Principe, USA Yong Ching Lim, SINGAPORE Jose M. F. Moura, USA Yoram Bresler, USA K. J. Ray Liu, USA Zhi Ding, USA Kaushik Roy, USA A. A. Goldenberg, CANADA Kenneth Rose, USA Angel Rodriguez-Vasquez, SPAIN Keshab K. Parhi, USA Erol Gelenbe, USA Kon Max Wong, CANADA F. L. Lewis, USA Kung Yao, USA Harry Wechsler, USA Louis L. Scharf, USA Howard C. Card, CANADA Martin Vetterli, USA Lei Xu, P. R. CHINA Mati Wax, USA Leon O. Chua, USA Meir Feder, ISRAEL Marco Gori, ITALY Michael C. Wicks, USA Narasimhan Sundararajan, SINGAPORE Michael D. Zoltowski, USA Sankar K. Pal, India Michael T. Orchard, USA Tamas Roska, USA A. Stephen Morse, USA Ion Ivan, ROMANIA Alberto Isidori, USA Hua Jiang, CHINA Ali Saberi, USA Henry Lau, HONG KONG Andrew R. Teel, USA Jangho Lee, KOREA Antonio Vicino, ITALY Jae Yeol Lee, KOREA Anuradha M. Annaswamy, USA Keon Myung Lee, KOREA Benjamin Melamed, USA Yungho Leu, TAIWAN Bruce H. Krogh, USA Jiaming Li, AUSTRALIA David D. Yao, USA Han-Hsi Liang, TAIWAN Donald Towsley, USA Jiun-Jian Liaw, TAIWAN Eduardo D. Sontag, USA Chiunhsiun Lin, TAIWAN Edward J. Davison, CANADA Zeljko Panian, CROATIA G. George Yin, USA Byung joo Park, KOREA Giorgio Picci, ITALY Magdy Saeb, EGYPT Graham C. Goodwin, AUSTRALIA Young-chul Shim, KOREA Han-Fu Chen, CHINA Takao Shimomura, JAPAN Harold J. Kushner, USA Daejung Shin, KOREA Hidenori Kimura, JAPAN Mohd Afizi Mohd Shukran, AUSTRALIA Ian Postlethwaite, UK Chang-kyo Suh, KOREA Ian R. Petersen, AUSTRALIA Vladimir Tosic, AUSTRALIA Jan C. Willems, NETHERLANDS Dat Tran, AUSTRALIA Jim S. Freudenberg, USA Vladimir Vasek, CZECH REPUBLIC Karl Johan Astrom, SWEDEN Zhiwu Wang, CHINA Lennart Ljung, SWEDEN Tien-Chin Wang, TAIWAN M. Vidyasagar, INDIA Li Wanqing, CHINA Mark W. Spong, USA Narongrit Waraporn, THAILAND Matthew R. James, AUSTRALIA Shugang Wei, JAPAN Munther A. Dahleh, USA Lou Wenzhong, CHINA P .R. Kumar, USA Sheng-Yuan Yang, TAIWAN Peter E. Caines, CANADA Masaya Yoshikawa, JAPAN Pramod P. Khargonekar, USA Yun peng, CHINA Richard T. Middleton, AUSTRALIA Dexi Zhang, CHINA Roberto Tempo, Italy Lin Zhang, CHINA Roger W. Brockett, USA Yongqiang Zhang, CHINA Romeo Ortega, FRANCE Shankar Sastry, USA Stephane Lafortune, USA Steven I. Marcus, USA T. E. Duncan, USA Tamer Basar, USA W. M. Wonham, CANADA Weibo Gong, USA Xi-Ren Cao, HONG KONG Yu-Chi Ho, UNITED KINGDOM Shahrum Abdullah, MALAYSIA Nakhoon Baek, KOREA Chao-Sheng Chang, TAIWAN Yue-Shan Chang, TAIWAN Lin-huang Chang, TAIWAN Hong-Ren Chen, TAIWAN Yuk Ying Chung, AUSTRALIA Hermann Gehring, GERMANY Chen Guojin, CHINA Kun-Lin Hsieh, TAIWAN Chih-hung Hsu, TAIWAN Xu Huang, AUSTRALIA Jason Hung, TAIWAN Preface This year the American Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMERICAN-MATH '11) and the 5th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS (CEA '11) were held in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, January 29-31, 2011. 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