1. Publisher's note

   Announcement Pages: i - i

2. Editorial

   • N. K. Bose

   EditorialNotes Pages: 131 - 131

3. Image compression using nonlinear pyramid vector quantization

   • Xudong Song
   • Yrjö Neuvo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 149

4. A general factorization method for multivariable polynomials

   • N. E. Mastorakis
   • N. J. Theodorou
   • S. G. Tzafestas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 178

5. Object recognition by a massively parallel 2-D neural architecture

   • W. A. Porter
   • Wei Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 201

6. Robust stability of complex polynomials with annular uncertainties

   • F. Pérez
   • D. Docampo
   • C. Abdallah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 215