Congratulations!

The organizing committee of NOLTA2008 proudly presents the winners of the Best Student Paper Award and the Student Paper Award as listed below.
The decisions are made based on the reviews by the organizing committee members (three reviewers per paper).
We selected five brilliant papers for the Best Student Paper Award: Gold Prize.
The gold prize awardees will be exempted from the registration fee of the NOLTA2009 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
In addition, 10 papers are chosen for the Student Paper Award: Silver Prize, because the review scores are very close.
The student paper award was founded this year in order to encourage young students in the research field of NOLTA.
Therefore, the students listed below are the first winners of the award.
We planned the award ceremony at the farewell party with champagne on the final day of the NOLTA2008.
However, we forced to cancel the ceremony because of the unfortunate bomb threat to the Helia hotel.
We are very sorry that we could not celebrate the winners at the conference.
We are planning a small award ceremony at the opening of the next NOLTA2009.
Congratulations again. The award papers will be sent to the awardees soon.

Yoshihiko Horio
Technical Program Co-Chair of NOLTA2008

Best Student Paper Award (Gold Prize)
Alphabetical Order

Stefan Martignoli, University and ETH Zurich

Synchronization of model neurons to AM auditory stimuli

Yusuke Matsuoka, Hosei University

Bifurcation phenomena of the rotation map with a controlling segment

Takafumi Matsuura, Saitama University

An effective chaotic search by using 2-opt and Or-opt algorithms for traveling salesman problem

Alessandro Palladini, University of Bologna

Modeling behavioral tasks to asses visual information integration and motor information encoding in parietal cortex

Hiroko Yoneshima, Osaka Prefecture University

Feedback control of spiral waves in a cellular automata model of excitable media

Student Paper Award (Silver Prize)
Alphabetical Order

Shintaro Arai, Tokushima University

Error-correcting method based on chaotic dynamics for noncoherent chaos communications

Márk Csörnyei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Chaotic oscillations of noise suppressed solid state lasers used in optical-wireless networks

Takashi Inoue, Tokushima University

Edge enhancement of color image by three-layer cellular neural network considering three primary colors

Yuta Kakimoto, The University of Tokyo

A hierarchical chaotic neural network model for multistable binocular rivalry

Haruna Matsushita, Tokushima University

Nonlinear spring model of self-organizing map arranged in two-dimensional array

Takeshi Matsuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Weighted blowups of Kullback information and application to multinomial distributions

Takahiro Sota, Tohoku University

ID model with higher-order connections for the traveling salesman problem

Elena Tamaseviciute, Vilnius University

Adaptive control of steady states and slowly varying states in the Duffing-Holmes type system with unstable high-pass filter

Yuta Ueoka, Doshisha university

Efficiency of statistical measures to estimate network structure of chaos coupled systems

Masaaki Usui, Musashi Institute of Technology

A profit sharing reinforcement learning method using a memory-based dynamic reinforcement function