ISSN 1330-1012

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

20th International Conference on
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES
ITI '98

Pula, Croatia, June 16-19, 1998

Editors
Damir Kalpic
Vesna Hljuz Dobric


ORGANIZED BY

SPONSORED BY

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

CO-OPERATING INSTITUTIONS



INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman
D. Kalpic,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Members
H. Adeli, USAM. Becue, Spain
I. Bratko, SloveniaF. Breitenecker, Austria
L. Budin, Croatia V. Ceric, Croatia
G. Doukidis, Greece I. Futo, Hungary
V. Glavinic, Croatia V. Hlupic, UK
A. Javor, Hungary C. Jones, UK
M. Kovac, Croatia T. Legovic, Croatia
S. Loncaric, Croatia P. Long, UK
V. Luzar-Stiffler, CroatiaR. Manger, Croatia
M. T. Molfino, Italy A. Morin, France
I. Olkin, USA R. J. Paul, UK
M. Pidd, UK S. Ribaric, Croatia
D. Rosenzweig, CroatiaA. Seila, USA
D. Skorin-Kapov, USA A. Smailagic, USA
V. Vojtek, Slovakia M. A. Vouk, USA
S. Vuletic, Croatia M. Zagar, Croatia

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman
S. Krajcar
Vice Chair
V. Hljuz Dobric
Members
Z. Batic M. Kovac
I. Maric M. Mauher


TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Cohen, E. B. (pp 3)
FROM UGLY DUCKLING TO SWAN: RECONCEPTUALIZING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AS A FIELD OF THE DISCIPLINE INFORMING SCIENCE
Flournoy, N. (pp 13)
A BIASED COIN URN DESIGN FOR ESTIMATING A TARGET QUANTILE FROM A SEQUENCE OF BINARY RESPONSES: ASYMPTOTIC RESULTS
Hearne, L. B. (pp 19)
UNIVARIATE NON-PARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION USING RANDOM LINEAR TESSELLATIONS
Molfino, M. T. (pp 33)
CONTINUING TRAINING IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES THE PROJECT QUALIFICATION 2000
Olkin, I. (pp 37)
PROBABILITY MODELS FOR LIFETIME DATA
Vouk, M. A. (pp 39)
NETWORK-BASED EDUCATION


APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Fernandez Llamas, C., Diaz, P., Aedo, I., Diez-Hoyo, C. (pp 55)
TRANSLIB: MULTILINGUAL ACCESS TO LIBRARIES CATALOGUES
Lauc, D., Lauc, T., Boras, D., Ristov, S. (pp 61)
DEVELOPING TEXT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM USING ROBUST MORPHOLOGICAL PARSING
Mladineo, N., Knezic, S., Pavasovic, S. (pp 67)
THE CONCEPT OF GIS BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM IN FIRE SERVICE
Proszeky, G. (pp 73)
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS IN THE TRANSLATOR'S PRACTICE


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 81)
STRATEGIES FOR FEATURE SELECTION USING INDIVIDUAL FEATURE IMPORTANCE
Djordjevic, D., Mihajlov, D. (pp 87)
WEIGHTED VOTING OF MULTIPLE ALN CLASSIFIERS FOR OCR
Malekovic, M. (pp 93)
INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE
Ribaric, S., Dalbelo Basic, B., Tomac, D. (pp 101)
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION OF REASONING USING FUZZY AND FUZZY TIME PETRI NETS
Zdravkova, K. (pp 109)
LEARNING ARCHITECTURE IN AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS


BIOMETRICS

Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A. (pp 117)
MODELLING AND OPTIMISATION OF AMINO ACID PRODUCTION BASED ON MANURE
Grbac, I., Dalbelo Basic, B., Ivelic, Z. (pp 125)
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTH OF MASSIVE WOOD L-JOINTS
Jazbec, A., Simic, D., Pavlovic, M., Kujundzic, M., Malinar, M. (pp 131)
VARIATIONS IN MORTALITY IN MIDDLE DALMATIA, CROATIA
Piecha, J. (pp 137)
THE FOOT ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSTICS AND EXPERTISE
Simic, D., Jazbec, A., Pavlovic, M., Sega, K., Hrsak, J. (pp 143)
SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF AMBIENT NO2 ON MORTALITY IN ZAGREB, CROATIA


COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Alonistioti, A., Koutsopoulou, M., Efthimiopoulos, G., Paschalis, A. (pp 151)
MAPPING OF SDL AND CORBA FEATURES FOR MODELLING SOFTWARE RADIO ASPECTS
Bertolissi, E., Preece, C. (pp 157)
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TRANSMISSION SPEED IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS
Glavinic, V., Motik, B. (pp 163)
AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND PROCESSING
Gusev, M., Misev, A., Popovski, G. (pp 169)
SIMULATION OF SUPERSCALAR PROCESSOR
Maurer, W. D. (pp 175)
REGISTER RELOCATION IN RISC MACHINES
Nagy, A., Nyul, L., Alexin, Z., Kuba, A. (pp 183)
THE SOFTWARE SYSTEM OF THE PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN SZEGED
Poles, D., Balogh, I., Budin, L. (pp 189)
TASK SYSTEMS WITH INPUT ERROR AND END-TO-END DEADLINES
Scholz, M., Sunde, J. (pp 197)
OPTIMIZATION OF GRADE OF SERVICE IN HIGH FREQUENCY NETWORKS
Steinmueller, B., Safarik, J. (pp 205)
INTRANET APPLICATION OF ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL
Sostaric, A., Gabor, M., Gygi, A. (pp 211)
PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN NETWORK SYSTEMS
Volner, R., Bores, P., Ticha, D., Ziak, R. (pp 217)
THE COMPUTER MODEL OF THE INTERACTIVE CATV NETWORK


DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Dimitrova, A., Georgiev, Tz., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Ratkov, Al. (pp 225)
DATA ANALYSIS OF ION EXCHANGE STEP OF L-LYSINE PURIFICATION PROCESS
Dudasne Nagy, M., Mate, E., Kari, B. (pp 231)
GENERATION OF NORMAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL PROFILE CURVES FOR EVALUATING MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION STUDIES
Dumicic, K., Marusic, Z. (pp 237)
THE SAMPLE STRATEGY FOR MULTIINDICATOR SURVEY IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION SECTORS FOR CROATIA IN 1996
Gligorova, L., Kustura, M. (pp 243)
EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED BY THE CONTINUING LABOUR FORCE SURVEY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Gunjaca, J., Satovic, Z., Kolak, I. (pp 247)
GENETIC DIVERSITY AMONG CROATIAN COMMON BEAN LANDRACES
Korze, D., Zazula, D., Potocnik, B. (pp 251)
CLOSED-FORM ESTIMATION OF MA COEFFICIENTS OF SUPERIMPOSED SIGNALS
Loncaric, S., Majcenic, Z. (pp 257)
MULTIRESOLUTION CT HEAD IMAGE ANALYSIS USING SIMULATED ANNEALING
Luzar Stiffler, V., Stiffler, C. (pp 263)
BEYOND SQL AND OLAP: A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR SMART STATISTICS IN THE FIELD OF DATA MINING
Morin, A.M. (pp 269)
THE USE OF DATA ANALYSIS METHODS FOR TEXT COMPARISONS
Poljak, J., Budin, L. (pp 275)
CHAOTIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS


DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND TEST, METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Hocenski, Z., Martinovic, G. (pp 283)
EVALUATION OF FAULT DETECTION AND FAULT RECOVERY OF MICROCONTROLLER DYAD BY FAULT INJECTION
Porwik, P. (pp 289)
LOGIC SYNTHESIS OF INCOMPLETELY SPECIFIED BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS BY MEANS OF GENETIC ALGORITHM


INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Costa, J. P., Melo, P., Godinho, P., Dias, L. (pp 297)
THE DESIGN OF A GDSS FOR PROJECT ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION: THE AGAP SYSTEM
De Rossi, M., Ferri, F., Ricci, F. L. (pp 303)
ORGANIZATION OF THE INFORMATION IN ORDER TO SIMPLIFY THE QUERYING OF DATABASES
Fertalj, K., Mornar, V., Kalpic, D. (pp 311)
AN ALGORITHM TO GENERATE DATA FOR TESTING
Goczyla, K. (pp 317)
EXTENDIBLE PARTIAL-ORDER TREE: A DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FOR INDEXING ON MULTIVALUED ATTRIBUTES
Juric, R., Martin, N. (pp 323)
DBRE AND MIGRATION FROM RELATIONAL TO OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASES
Jukic, N., Tomic, S., Vrbsky, S. (pp 335)
BELIEF-CONSISTENCY IN MLS DATABASES THROUGH ACTIVE RULES
Lores Vidal, J., Vivancos Calvet, J., Goma Ayats, J. R., Serres Moliner, E., Sirera Aransay, X., Macarro Zapata, X. (pp 341)
APPLICATION OF MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY TO A COMPUTER-AIDED SYSTEM FOR DESIGN AND CALCULATION OF MODULS FOR INJECTION MOULDING OF THERMOPLASTICS
Osmanagic Bedenik, N., Varga, M. (pp 353)
INTEGRATION OF DATA WAREHOUSING INTO CONTROLLING
Trad, A. (pp 359)
THE TEAM DESIGN QUALITY CHECK COEFFICIENT (TDQCC)


MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Bowden, F. D. J., Pearce, C. E. M. (pp 367)
A PICARD-TYPE APPROACH TO ANALYSING TRANSIENTS IN COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Devcic, Z., Loncaric, S. (pp 371)
SVD BLOCK PROCESSING FOR NON-LINEAR IMAGE NOISE FILTERING
Gaborovic, S. (pp 377)
CONFLUENCE OF PARTIAL LAMBDA CALCULUS
Gluscevic, V., Pearce, C. E. M., Pecaric, J., Sunde, J. (pp 383)
BOUNDS FOR DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY MEASURES
Grzymkowski, R., Slota, D. (pp 389)
APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS OF HEAT CONDUCTION
Hebel, Z., Pavic, I., Delimar, M. (pp 399)
NEWTON-RAPHSON POWER FLOW - A NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT
Kasac, J., Stranjak, A. (pp 405)
THE CRITERIA OF QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
Korosec, D., Novak, U., Merletti, R. (pp 411)
INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL FOR FOURIER TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATION
Litiu, R., Kountanis, D. I. (pp 417)
VISIBILITY LINE IN A DIRECTION FOR A SET OF PARALLEL LINE SEGMENTS
Mihajlovic, Z., Goluban, A., Kovacic, D. (pp 425)
THE B-SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN VISUALIZATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
Orman, G. V. (pp 433)
ON Z-TRANSFORM OF THE VECTOR OF STATE PROBABILITIES
Stefanovski, S. (pp 439)
AN EFFICIENCY SCHEME FOR RAY TRACING RECURSIVE OBJECTS DEFINED BY L-SYSTEMS
Vesel, A., Zerovnik, J. (pp 445)
SEARCHING THE LINEAR K-ARBORICITY OF CUBIC GRAPHS
Ziha, K. (pp 451)
ENTROPY OF A SUBSYSTEM OF EVENTS
Ziha, K. (pp 455)
MARGINAL SAMPLING IN PROBABILITY INTEGRATION


MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Bogdan, Z., Jakoplic, Z. (pp 463)
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN FURNACE WALLS
Bosilj Vuksic, V. (pp 471)
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING USING SIMULATION AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
Capkun, G., Davison, A. C. (pp 477)
A SIMPLE STOCHASTIC RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL
Costa, P., Esposito, A., Esposito, F., Noioso, M. (pp 483)
VISCONTE: A VISUAL CONTROL AND SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
Cosic, K., Balogh, I., Bistrovic, S. (pp 489)
ANALYSIS OF DYNTACS AND MODSAF LOS ALGORITHMS
Duta-Capra, A., Sangeorzan, L., Nanu, D. E. (pp 495)
MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF THE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF ETHANE USING POWERSIM
Firak, M. (pp 501)
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION OF DISTRICT THERMAL POWER PLANT
Golub, M., Jakobovic, D. (pp 507)
A FEW IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHM
Horvat, M., Guid, N. (pp 513)
CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN USING B-SPLINES
Jakobovic, D., Golub, M. (pp 519)
ADAPTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM
Jelenkovic, L., Poljak, J. (pp 525)
MULTITHREADED SIMULATED ANNEALING
Korzinek, I., Sosteric, N. (pp 531)
NETWORKING OF THE DISTRIBUTED COMBAT SIMULATION PROTOTYPE
Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 537)
ANALYSIS OF NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTURES FOR MODELING MULTIPLICITY OF A CHEMICAL REACTOR
Nogo, G., Manger, R. (pp 543)
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A PARALLEL MAX-FLOW ALGORITHM
Pejic Bach, M. (pp 549)
LEARNING TO MANAGE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH
Ratkov, Al., Georgiev, Tz., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A. (pp 555)
IDENTIFICATION OF L-VALINE FED-BATCH FERMENTATION PROCESS
Slamic, M., Penzar, D., Sosteric, N., Jukic, J., Modric, A. (pp 563)
AN ARCHITECTURE FOR A COMBAT SIMULATION
Solcany, V., Safarik, J. (pp 571)
DETERMINING POSSIBLE SPEEDUP IN CONSERVATIVE PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
Topic, D., Kovacevic, D., Dumanic, S., Vulevic, Z. (pp 577)
SIMULATING CHAOTIC CIRCUITS IN EWB-PROGRAM
Uglesic, I., Maljkovic, Z., Kuterovac, LJ. (pp 583)
USAGE OF SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE FOR CALCULATION OF OVERVOLTAGES IN POWER PLANT


MULTIMEDIA

Bekic, Z., Filipcic, L., Milinovic, M. (pp 591)
DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR COURSE SYSTEM IN INTERNET TRAINING
Cantegrit, B., Toulotte, J.-M. (pp 597)
VIRTUAL PRACTICAL WORKS FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS USING INTERACTIVE SIMULATION WITH DIGITAL VIDEO


SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Begier, B. (pp 605)
TOWARDS SOFTWARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Futo, I. (pp 613)
A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PROLOG SYSTEM
Granic, A., Glavinic, V. (pp 619)
SOME THOUGHTS ON CLASSIFICATIONS OF VISUAL PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
Majorinc, K. (pp 627)
ELLIPSE-CIRCLE DILEMMA AND INVERSE INHERITANCE

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