• University of Zagreb, University Computing Centre, Croatia

SPONSORED BY

• IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Science and Technology
• University of Zagreb

CO-OPERATING INSTITUTIONS

• Athens University of Economics and Business
• Croatian Society for Biometrics
• Croatian Society for Simulation Modelling
• Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava
• Department of Statistics and Operations research, Polytechnical University of Catalonia
• European Business Management School, Swansea
• Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
• IEEE Croatia Section
• School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
• Working Group Simulation, Technical University Vienna

Chairman

D. Kalpic,
Department of Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Members

M. Becue, Spain	I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, Austria	L. Budin, Croatia
V. Ceric, Croatia	G. Doukidis, Greece
A. Javor, Hungary	B. Jeren, Croatia
C. Jones, UK	T. Legovic, Croatia
P. Long, UK	V. Luzar, Croatia
R. Manger, Croatia	M. T. Molfino, Italy
A. Morin, France	I. Olkin, USA
R. J. Paul, UK	M. Pidd, UK
S. Ribaric, Croatia	D. Rosenzweig, Croatia
E. Saliby, Brasil	A. Seila, UK
D. Skorin-Kapov, USA	A. Smailagic, USA
V. Vojtek, Slovakia	M. A. Vouk, USA
S. Vuletic, Croatia	M. Zagar, Croatia

Chairman

S. Krajcar

Vice Chair

V. Hljuz Dobric

Members

Z. Golubic	V. Graf
I. Maric	M. Mauher
B. Radic	M. Hercigonja Szekeres

PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Burkard, R.E., Cela, E., Dudas, T., Woeginger, G.J. (pp 3)

MINIMIZATION OF NOISE IN TREE-LIKE COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES

Cantoni, V., Caputo, G., Lombardi, L. (pp 7)

ATTENTIONAL LOOPS IN VISION SYSTEMS

Coulson, G., Blair, G., Davies, N. (pp 15)

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE ART IN SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Kopsa, L. (pp 35)

THE AUSTRIAN LAND REGISTRY DATABASE

Pavesic, N. (pp 39)

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION BY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS

Skorin-Kapov, D., Skorin-Kapov, J. (pp 49)

ON HUB LOCATION MODELS

Bobek, S., Lesjak, D. (pp 65)

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER BASED SERVICES

Curko, K. (pp 71)

INFORMATION SUBSYSTEM SOLUTION IN RETAILING AND EXECUTIVE POS MODULES IN CLIENT/SERVER ENVIRONMENT

Lauc, D., Zubrinic, T. (pp 77)

MULTIPLE CROATIAN HYPHENATION

Lesjak, D., Bobek, S. (pp 85)

APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USAGE IN SMALL SLOVENIAN FIRMS

Mandic, I., Puzar, M. (pp 91)

A METHODOLOGY OF GENERATING DOCUMENTS IN ELECTRICAL MACHINE DESIGN SOFTWARE

Mikulic, D., Krstic, V. (pp 95)

KNOWLEDGE SUPPORTED MIX DESIGN OF CONCRETE

Kukar, M., Kononenko, I., Silvester, T. (pp 103)

PROGNOSING THE FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE RECOVERY WITH MACHINE LEARNING

Nenov, R., Ljakova, K., Mileva, S. (pp 109)

AN PROGNOSTIC EXPERT SYSTEM "BAS"

Slavica, M., Sercer, M., Catic, I. (pp 113)

EXPERT SYSTEM AIDED TROUBLESHOOTING ON INJECTION MOULDINGS

Wolf, P. (pp 119)

EXPERT SYSTEM IN PROVIDING CREDIT

Yolles, M., Pirani, M. (pp 125)

DESIGNING FLEXIBLE LEARNING SYSTEMS

Curik, I., Filipcic, L. (pp 141)

ANALYSIS OF INBREEDING LEVELS IN CROATIAN SIMMENATAL COWS

Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Tzonkov, St. (pp 147)

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS OF BATCH AND FED-BATCH BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES

Hercigonja-Szekeres, M., Kern, J., Sonicki, Z., Ivankovic, D., Vuletic, S. (pp 153)

RECOGNITION OF NUTRITION PATTERN BY USING THE SPAD.T PACKAGE

Kruzic, T., Kusan, V. (pp 159)

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PENDUCULATE OAK TREES IN LOWLAND FORESTS

Loskovska, S., Kopacek, P. (pp 165)

VALIDATING LABORATORY TEST RESULTS BY AN EXPERT SYSTEM

Petrovecki, M., Knezevic, F., Juric, G., Jazbec, A., Separovic, V. (pp 171)

PREDICTION OF DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH NODULAR MALIGNANT MELANOMA

Baelter, O., Lantz, A. (pp 179)

WHAT CAUSES PROBLEMS WITH EMAIL?

Benis, R., Bujanovic, I. (pp 187)

THE DESIGN OF NEW PROTOCOL DRIVER FOR NETWORKING WITH NEOS

Bujanovic, I., Benis, R. (pp 193)

A NEW DOS MULTITASKER AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION FOR NETWORKING WITH NEOS

Dukic, Z., Vojnovic, B. (pp 199)

PROGRAMMING APPLICATIONS FOR ACCESSING INTERNET AT MICROSOFT WINDOWS PLATFORM

Fasung, J., Hajduk, J., Benuskova, L., Vojtek, V. (pp 205)

OPTIMIZATION OF THE TOTAL COMMUNICATION COST OF MAPPING OF PROCESSES ONTO PROCESSORS BY MEANS OF A GENETIC ALGORITHM

Hudec, J. (pp 211)

VLSI SYSTEM TEST DESIGN: THE METHOD, EXPERIENCE AND SOME RESULTS IN MICROPROCESSOR FUNCTIONAL TEST DESIGN WITH EFFECTIVE TOOL - AFTG

Motik, B., Glavinic, V. (pp 217)

ON SEMANTICS REPRESENTATION OF LOTOS PROGRAMS

Bahovec, V., Cota, B., Erjavec, N. (pp 227)

SHORT-RUN FORECASTING OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND INVENTORIES OF FINISHED PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Blagajac, S., Krajcar, S. (pp 235)

A CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR THE PAST ELECTRIC LOAD DATA ANALYSIS

Dabrowska, I., Depowska, D. (pp 241)

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION METHOD IN PROPORTIONAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Depowska, D., Dabrowska, I. (pp 247)

MODIFICATION OF THE CHARACTER PRECLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR FOUR-STRIPED LETTERS

Kosmelj, K. (pp 253)

HOW TO HANDLE TRUNCATED DATA

Kovarova, K. (pp 259)

LIKELIHOOD-RATIO-TEST FOR THE STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Mooney, C.Z. (pp 263)

THE PERFORMANCE OF BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AROUND OLS SLOPE COEFFICIENTS IN SMALL SAMPLES WITH NON-NORMAL ERROR STRUCTURE

Ristov, S. (pp 269)

SPACE SAVING WITH COMPRESSED TRIE FORMAT - HOW TO ACCESS A FEW MILLION WORDS IN A REAL TIME ON A PC

Tepes, B., Manucci, M., Boras, D., Mateljan, V., Strunje, M. (pp 275)

TOPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TAGGING

Ziha, K. (pp 281)

THE RELATION OF DESCRIPTIVE SAMPLING TO THE LATIN HYPERCUBE METHOD

Dadic, V., Srdelic, M., Grubisic, A. (pp 289)

OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM AND DATABASES OF THE ADRIATIC SEA

Lapaine, M., Francula, N., Lovric, P. (pp 295)

CROATIAN GEODETIC TERMINOLOGY

Pribicevic, B., Skrlec, D., Krajcar, S. (pp 301)

MULTIPLE VEHICLE DISPATCH PROBLEM AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Bosilj Vuksic, V. (pp 309)

OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION

Calles, M., Cuevas, G. (pp 315)

IDENTIFICATION OF CLASSES AND INHERITANCE HIERARCHIES FROM A CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL

Janas, J.M. (pp 323)

A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO DATABASE DENORMALIZATION

Li, L. (pp 329)

AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH FOR TEMPORAL DATA

Zagi, H., Petrovecki, M., Smoljanovic, M., Kovacic, Z., Poljak, M. (pp 335)

PESTICIDE INFORMATION SYSTEM; BASIC INVESTIGATION CONCEPT AND INTRODUCTORY STUDY

Arbenz, P., Slapnicar, I. (pp 343)

AN ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE BLOCK-JACOBI ALGORITHM FOR COMPUTING THE SVD

Bogataj, T. (pp 349)

MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF TDR-BASED DISCONTINUITY-LOCATION IN TRANSMISSION LINES

Gaborovic, S. (pp 355)

A CONSTRUCTION OF PARTIAL PRODUCT AND PARTIAL EXPONENTIATION BY LOCAL ADJUNCTION

Gaborovic, S. (pp 361)

STRONG DISCRIMINABILITY IN LAMBDA CALCULUS

Horvat, M., Guid, N., Oblonsek, C. (pp 367)

C1 PROCEDURALLY DEFINED LOFTED SURFACES

Kacarska, M., Andonov, D. (pp 373)

OPTIMAL MODULE DISTRIBUTION FOR PIPELINE DIGITAL FILTER ANALYSIS ALGORITHM

Kon-Popovska, M., Grad, J. (pp 379)

IMPLICIT CRITICAL REGIONS DETERMINATION FOR THE SOLUTION OF PARAMETRIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM WITH SYSTEM MATRIX PARAMETRIZATION

Manger, R. (pp 385)

EXPERIMENTS WITH PARALLEL ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING PATH PROBLEMS

Vesel, A., Guid, N., Zalik, B. (pp 393)

FAST DEGREE REDUCTION

Angelov, P. (pp 401)

AN APPROACH TO OPTIMISATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS

Atanasijevic-Kunc, M., Karba, R., Gril, D. (pp 407)

EFFICACY COMPARISON OF CONTROLLERS FOR PRESSURE - LEVEL PILOT PLANT

Balarin, F. (pp 413)

A FORMALISM AND A VERIFICATION METHOD FOR BUS-BASED SYSTEMS

Bogdan, Z. (pp 419)

STEAM GENERATOR DESIGN BASED ON MATHEMATICAL MODELLING

Cielatkowski, J., Goczyla, K. (pp 425)

JOURNEY PLANNING IN A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

Fischer, D., Nikolovski, S. (pp 431)

GENERATING RANDOM VARIABLES FOR ARBITRARY DENSITY FUNCTIONS

Grzymkowski, R., Kapusta, A. (pp 437)

THE NUMERICAL AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD IN THE THERMAL THEORY OF FOUNDRY

Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 443)

BIOREACTOR MODELING BY NEURAL NETS: SINGULAR VALUE AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION

Majdandzic, N. (pp 449)

COMMON MODEL OF THE PLANNING OF PREPARATION, ASSEMBLY AND SCHEDULING OF PRODUCTION

Mirkovic, D. (pp 455)

SIMULATION OF POROUS MEDIA FLOW ON PARALLEL MACHINES

Piskopos, L., Kountanis, D. (pp 463)

MAXIMIZING THE VISIBILITY AREA FROM A POINT MOVING ON A CURVED SEGMENT

Scitovski, R., Jukic, D., Basic, I. (pp 469)

APPLICATION OF THE MOVING LEAST SQUARES METHOD IN SURFACE GENERATING

Scitovski, R., Marosevic, T., Jukic, D. (pp 475)

ESTIMATION OF THE OPTIMAL INITIAL CONDITIONS IN MATHEMATICAL MODEL

Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 483)

TOWARD AN ADAPTIVE LINKBASE MODEL IN HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS

Ko, Y.K., Jung, S.H., Choy, Y.C. (pp 489)

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SPACE FOR HYPERMEDIA SYSTEM

Malinovski, T., Gievska, S., Jordanovski, S., Mitrevski, K., Davcev, D. (pp 495)

DESIGN OF MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION USING SYNCHRONIZED VIDEO, ANIMATION AND SOUND STREAMS

Mornar, V., Fertalj, K., Kalpic, D. (pp 501)

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Rugelj, J. (pp 507)

THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN COMPUTER NETWORKS TO EDUCATION

Skala, K. (pp 513)

EVALUATION THE VISUAL INTERFACES IN MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Cvitas, M., Garvas Delic, A. (pp 521)

GETTING READY FOR CULTURAL INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

Cecuk, A-M., Vujnovic, V. (pp 529)

OVERVIEW OF DIRECTORY AND INFORMATION SERVICES USING X.500 PROTOCOL

Drastikova, J. (pp 535)

INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Meter, D., Breyer, H. (pp 541)

BECOMING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER ON INTERNET

Osrecki, D., Lovric-Plantic, V., Garvas Delic, A., Cvitas, M. (pp 547)

INFORMATIZATION OF THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS

Stefanovski, S., Stojanov, G., Bozinovski, S. (pp 555)

USING BLACKBOARD DISTRIBUTED CONTROL MECHANISM IN EVOLUTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

Banchoff Tzancoff, C., Harari, I., Diaz, J. (pp 563)

THE PROS AND CONS OF ICONIC SYSTEMS: HOW HCI INFLUENCES THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Bielikova, M., Navrat, P. (pp 575)

AN APPROACH TO BUILDING SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION USING HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE

Daneva, M. (pp 581)

ON THE COMPLETENESS OF THE CONCEPTUAL MODELLING LANGUAGE MIL

Korbar, N., Mernik, M., Zumer, V. (pp 587)

IMPLEMENTATION OF ATTRIBUTE GRAMMARS

Pavlic, M. (pp 593)

PRINCIPLES OF GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH END USERS

Snaith, J., Juric, R. (pp 599)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BOOCH '93 AND RUMBAUGH ET AL'S OBJECT ORIENTED METHODOLOGIES

SUPPLEMENT (Late Papers)

Hocine, A., Deschamps, R., Forest, N. (pp 613)

AN EXPERT HYPERTEXT INTERFACE FOR A RELATIONAL DATABASE

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