PROCEEDINGS OF THE

14th International Conference on
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES
ITI '92

Pula, Croatia, September 15-18, 1992

Editors
Vlatko Ceric
Vesna Dobric

ORGANIZED BY


UNDER THE AUSPICES OF


COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairman
V. Ceric,
Faculty of Economics,
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Members
E. Boerger, Italy I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, Austria L. Budin, Croatia
G. Doukidis, Greece A. Javor, Hungary
B. Jeren, Croatia C. Jones, UK
V. Luzar, Croatia M. Pidd, UK
J. Rosenbilt, USA D. Rosenzweig, Croatia
A. Seila, USA E. Saliby, Brasil
M. A. Vouk, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairman
J. Radic
Vice Chair
V. Dobric
Members
Dj. Ercegovac
S. Krajcar
M. Mauher
V. Radelic
B. Radic

PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Breitenecker, F. (pp 3)
MODERN TRENDS IN SIMULATION
De Raedt, L. (pp 17)
INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING: AN INTRODUCTION
Legovic, T., Limic, N., Tomas, B. (pp 23)
DECOMPOSITION OF A CONCENTRATION FILED IN A COSTAL SEA USING RECON
Seila, F. A. (pp 33)
MULTIVARIATE ESTIMATION IN DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

COMPUTING IN EDUCATION

Jones, C., Kwok, F. M. (pp 41)
TEACHING FLOW-SHOP AND JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING WITH VPB A VISUAL PLANNING BOARD
Yolles, M. (pp 49)
DESIGN FOR A COMPUTER BASED REMOTE LEARNING SYSTEM

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Aniorte, P., Jaber G. (pp 59)
IMPLEMENTATION AND DATA ACCESS IN A TYPED RELATIONAL SYSTEM
Cvitas, M., Maletic, M., Gasic, S. (pp 65)
BUILDING AN INTEGRATED LINGUISTIC SYSTEM
Garvas Delic, A. (pp 71)
NEW REPRESENTATION OF DOCUMENT DATA BASES
Nachouki, J. (pp 77)
OBJECT INTERFACE FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM
Qureshi, S. (pp 89)
NETWORKING: A LAYERED APPROACH FOR DEFINING INFORMATION SYSTEMS WITHIN ORGANISATIONS
Savnik, I. (pp 95)
THE QUERY LANGUAGE FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Vedris, M. (pp 101)
SUBJECT AREA AND USER VIEW: A FUNDAMENTAL DUALITY OF DATA MODELLING

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Batnozic, S. (pp 109)
CONNECTING SIMULATION LANGUAGE SIMSCRIPT II.5 WITH RELATIONAL DATABASE
Gracanac, T., Srbljic, S. (pp 115)
EXTENDED STATE MACHINE AS A FORMAL MODEL OF DATA REPLICATION COHERENCE PROTOCOLS
Kovac, M., Zagar, M. (pp 121)
EMBEDDING INITIALIZATION PROCEDURE GENERATION INTO THE MICROCOMPUTER HARDWARE DESIGN
Maurer, W. D. (pp 127)
CLA6- A PROPOSED NEW LANGUAGE
Mernik, M., Zumer, V. (pp 133)
RAPID PROTOTYPED INTERPRETERS
Novak, J. (pp 139)
INFORMATION CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTUAL MODELS
Slogar, N., Jaksic, P., Vidovic, S. (pp 145)
APPLICATION SOFTWARE SELECTION: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Bielikova, M., Fric, P., Galbavy, M., Vojtek, V. (pp 153)
KEX - AN ENVIRONMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERT SYSTEMS
Bilic, H., Boljat, I., Grbac, Z., Jadric, A., Markovic, D., Slapnicar, P. (pp 159)
A FORWARD REASONING ALGORITHM
Bosanac, A. (pp 167)
THE ROLE OF HYPERMEDIA AND HYPERLINKING IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
Filipic, B. (pp 173)
GENETIC OPTIMIZATION OF CONTROLLER PARAMETERS
Han, Y. F. (pp 179)
PARALLEL INFERENCE IN EXPERT SYSTEMS
Ilakovac, T. (pp 187)
BEHAVIOUR OF KAUFFMAN NETWORKS
Kalafatic, Z. (pp 193)
UTILIZING LOCAL SYMMETRIES FOR SHAPE DECOMPOSITION
Kolmanic, T., Stiglic, B., Welzer, T. (pp 199)
DYNAMIC JOB PLANNING FOR FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH EXPERT SYSTEM
Miljkovic, D., Ribaric, S. (pp 205)
SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR VOICE CONTROLLED ROBOT ARM
Ribaric, S., (pp 211)
RECOGNITION IN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SCHEME BASED ON PETRI NETS
Saeedi, M. H., Arran, J. M. (pp 217)
PARALLEL MESSAGE PASSING IN A FRAME-BASED NETWORK
Sutlic, I. (pp 223)
RESTRICTING THE SEARCH IN INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Bekic, Z. (pp 231)
ON SIMULATION OF DATABASE SYSTEM BEHAVIOR IN PARALLEL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Bele-Tominc, L., Svecko, R., Donlagic, D. (pp 237)
NONPARAMETRIC MODEL AND SELF-TUNING CONTROLLER
Glavinic, V., Sandri, R. (pp 243)
AN APPROACH TO DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION DEFINITION BY REMOTE OPERATION INVOCATION
Kirasic, D., Zganec, T. (pp 249)
UNIX - DOS INTEGRATION AT FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ZAGREB
Kuresevic, A. (pp 253)
DUAL TONE MULTI-FREQUENCY (DTMF) SIGNALLING IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Ojstersek, M., Zumer, V., Valeski, D. (pp 259)
DEBUGGING TIME CRITICAL PROGRAMS WHICH ARE EXECUTED ON THE MACRO DATAFLOW COMPUTER
Pale, P., Bulat, D., Maric, I., Simicic, Lj., Vujnovic, V. (pp 265)
CONCEPT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CARNET
Srbijic, S. (pp 273)
THE DESIGN OF THE OWNERSHIP CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR DATA REPLICATION COHERENCE PROTOCOLS
Zganec, T., Zagar, M., Krajcar, S., Kirasic, D. (pp 279)
THE FLEXIBLE LOCAL AREA NETWORKS IN OPEN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

CAD/CAM

Perusko, U., Vrabec, B. (pp 287)
COMPUTER-AIDED LOGIC DESIGN SYSTEM ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER
Vesel. A., Guid, N., Zalik, B. (pp 293)
IMPROVED METHOD FOR RATIONAL BEZIER INTERPOLATION WITH CONIC SEGMENTS

DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

Becue, M., Pla i Arxe, R., Reinert, M. (pp 301)
A CORPUS OF LITERARY REVIEWS EXAMINED THROUGH STATISTICAL TEXTUAL DATA ANALYSIS. "LA REGENTA" AND ITS CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
Dobric, V., Luzar, V. (pp 307)
REGRESSION METHODS IN SIMULATION I/O ANALYSIS
Esson, F., Postaire, J. G. (pp 319)
AN INTERACTIVE TOOL FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIVARIATE DATA THROUGH VIRTUAL OBSERVER
Kern, J., Hercigonja-Szekeres, M., Vuletic, S. (pp 325)
USERS VIEW OF SPAD.TAS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL FOR STANDARDIZED OPEN-ENDED INTERVIEWS
Luzar, V., Dobric, V. (pp 331)
USING DESCRIPTIVE SAMPLING TO IMPROVE IMPORTANCE SAMPLING
Smoljanovic, L. (pp 343)
PROBLEM OF ESTIMATING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN RELATIVES

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Husinsky, I., Breitenecker, F. (pp 353)
COMPARISON OF SIMULATION SOFTWARE
Coric, V. (pp 363)
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF CONTEMPORARY SHIP STRUCTURE
Doukidis, I. G., Ceric, V. (pp 371)
COMPARISON OF PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
Dusak, V. (379)
SIMULATION MODELLING IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
Hlupic, V., Paul, R. J. (pp 387)
SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR MANUFACTURING SIMULATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Javor, A. (pp 393)
OBJECT ORIENTED WORLD VIEW IN SIMULATION
Mauher, M. ( pp 403)
MODELLING OF FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN GENERAL CARGO PORT SIMULATION
Sruk, V., Srbljic, S. (pp 409)
DATA REPLICATION COHERENCE PROTOCOLS SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
Strugar, I. (pp 415)
LINKING SIMULATION MODELS WITH USER PROGRAMS AND DATABASES
Tomasic, I., Vidovic-Tisanic, Z. (pp 421)
OPTIMUM FRONT POSITION OF EXCAVATION IN RELATION TO DISCONTINUITIES

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Bilic, H., Jadric, A., Slapnicar, P., Dominis, N., Lovric, A., Pezelj, Z., Salamunic, M. (pp 429)
KLAS-CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE INFORMATION SYSTEM USED FOR STUDENT ADMISSION IN THE FIRST FORM OF SECONDARY SCHOOL
Cimermanovic, B. (pp 437)
COMPUTER ASSISTED DATA EDITING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Debevc, M., Bele-Tominc, L., Svecko, R.
USER INTERFACE FOR PROGRAMS IN AUTOMATION PROCESSES
Dumicic, S., Kecman, N., Dumicic, K. (pp 449)
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF SAMPLING METHOD ON OPTICAL READING CONTROL IN THE CENSUS 1991
Fischer, D. (pp 455)
SIMULATING A MODEL OF TWO-ELEMENT ANTENNA ARRAY FOR ESTIMATING SIGNAL DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL
Lesjak, D., Bobek, S. (pp 461)
EVALUATING (CURRENT AND FUTURE) IMPACTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USAGE ON FIRMS
Maletic, M., Gasic, S., Cvitas, M. (pp 467)
BUILDING THE ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE CROATIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE CORPUS
Popovic, D., Trconic, S. (pp 473)
INFORMATION SUBSYSTEM OF PREPARATION QUESTIONNAIRES FOR DATA ENTRY-CENSUS 91
Tepes, B., Manucci, M. (pp 477)
THE REDUDANCY OF GLAGOLITIC CHARACTERS IN A PRIMER OF CROATIAN EDITION
Treven, S. (pp 483)
MEASURING THE VALUE OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECTS

MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATICS

Manger, R. (pp 491)
A PARALLELIZATION OF THE JORDAN METHOD FOR SOLVING PATH PROBLEMS
Titovsek, M., Zupancic, B. (pp 497)
DYNAMICAL SYSTEM SIMULATION ALGORITHMS
PUBLISHED BY: SRCE University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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