On the generalized Lorenz canonical form

This short note is to briefly introduce the new notion of generalized Lorenz canonical form (GLCF), which contains the classical Lorenz system and the newly discovered Chen system as two extreme cases, along with infinitely many chaotic systems in between. It also points out that some recently reported chaotic systems are special cases of the GLCF. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.