• University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia
• 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, Barcelona
• European Business Management School, Swansea
• Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb
• School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
• Working Group Simulation, Technical University Vienna

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman

V. Ceric,
Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Members

M. Becue, Spain	I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, Austria	L. Budin, Croatia
G. Doukidis, Greece	A. Javor, Hungary
B. Jeren, Croatia	C. Jones, UK
D. Kalpic, Croatia	J. Kuljis, 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	A. Smailagic, USA
V. Vojtek, Slovakia	M. A. Vouk, USA
S. Vuletic, Croatia

Chairman

S. Krajcar

Vice Chair

V. Hljuz Dobric

Members

I. Maric	V. Graf
B. Radic	M. Hercigonja-Szekeres
L. Smoljanovic	M. Mauher

PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Pidd, M. (pp 3)

SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE VALIDATION OF COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS

Zlobec, S. (pp 13)

SOME CURIOUS FACTS IN GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION

Grobelnik, M. (pp 29)

LOGOS - MULTILINGUAL EDUCATIONAL PACKAGE BASED ON LOGO

Marinkovic, R. (pp 35)

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Yolles, M., Lisewski B., Kaluza J.(pp 41)

MODELLING OPEN DISTANCE LEARNING DELIVERY SYSTEMS

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Juric, R., Snaith, J. (pp 51)

SSADM - ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES: AND A COMPARISON WITH SOME OTHER STRUCTURED METHODOLOGIES

Kaluza, J., Kaluzova L. (pp. 59)

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DATA MODEL DESIGN METHODOLOGY

Osguthorpe, G., Steele B., Banks, B. (pp. 65)

EFFECTIVE RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION: FROM THEORY INTO PRACTISE

Varga, M. (pp. 71)

ROLE OF CONCEPTUAL MODEL

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Daneva, M. (pp 79)

A SITUATION VIEW OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Januchta, M., Krolikowski, Z. (pp 85)

A DEDUCTIVE INTERFACE TO THE RELATIONAL DBMS ORACLE

Korosec, D., Zazula, D., Sostaric, A. (pp 91)

COMMON APPROACH TO SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION WITH SIMULATION OF INPUT DEVICES

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Fasung, J., Vojtek, V., Hajduk, J. (pp 99)

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE FOR INTELLIGENT DATA PROCESSING

Gams, M., Karba, N., Drobnic, M., Krizman, V. (pp 107)

A GENERAL INTEGRATING SCHEMA

Januchta, M., Krolikowski, Z., Rut, M. (pp 113)

RDM: RULE MAINTENANCE FOR THE POSTGRES SYSTEM

Klopcic, M., Skrjanc, I., Matko, D. (pp 119)

FUZZY CONTROLLER DESIGNING TOOL

Knezic, S., Milos, B. (pp 125)

THE VALUATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC SOILS USING NEURAL NETWORK

Kovacevic, A., Kovacevic, D., Burazer-Turko, M. (pp 131)

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION IN THE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR HLA DETECTION SUPPORT

Kovacevic, D., Kovacevic, A., Burazer-Turko, M. (pp 137)

EXPERT SYSTEM ESTAN

Manger, R., Mauher, M., (pp 143)

USING HOLOGRAPHIC NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES PREDICTION

Mladenic, D. (pp 151)

HOW CAN COMPUTER LEARN WITH LOGO

Popov, O. B., Sadikario, S. (pp 157)

A SYSTEM FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT IN ENDOCRINOLOGY

Ribaric, S., Lastric, B. (pp 163)

INHERITANCE ALGORITHM FOR HETEROGENEOUS HIERARCHICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE

Sonicki, Z., Kern, J., Vuletic, S. (pp 171)

CLASSIFICATION OF THYROID LABORATORY DATA BASED ON ASSISTANT-ALGORITHM AND NEURAL NETWORK METHODOLOGY

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Djonova-Popova, I. (pp 179)

A NEW CLASS OF SPF ROUTING ALGORITHMS

Gavrilovska, L. (pp 185)

FAST PACKET SWITCHES WITH SHARED BUFFER MEMORY

Hudec, J. (pp 191)

VLSI SYSTEM TEST DESIGN: THE METHODS, PROBLEMS AND EXPERIENCE IN MICROPROCESSOR TESTING USING AFTG

Kvas, A., Ojstersek, M., Zumer, V. (pp 195)

STATIC PROGRAM ALLOCATION SCHEMES FOR MACRO DATA-FLOW COMPUTER

Salapura, V., Waleczek, G., Gschwind, M. (pp 203)

A COMPARISON OF VHDL AND STATECHARTS-BASED MODELING APPROACHES

Vedris, M. (pp 209)

THE ART OF THE COMPUTER GOPHERRING

DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

Grbac, I., Dalbelo Basic, B. (pp 217)

DATA ANALYSIS OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND MOISTURE PERMEABILITY IN MATTRESS

Milos, M. (pp 223)

DETERMINATION OF AFFINITY CONSTANTS BY THE METHOD OF NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES OF PROTEIN-LIGAND BINDING ISOTHERMS

Smoljanovic, L. (pp 227)

THE ESTIMATORS OF INTERCLASS CORRELATION FROM FAMILIAL DATA

Simic, D., Zegura, S. L. (pp 233)

ON THE POWER OF THE QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROCEDURE UNDER THE ISOLATION BY DISTANCE MODEL

Tepes, B., Boras, D., Manucci, M., Zubrinic, T. (pp 239)

USING CORPORA FOR LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF CROATIAN LANGUAGE

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Atanasijevic-Kunc, M., Karba, R., Bremsak, F. (pp 247)

COMBINATION OF UNI AND MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL DESIGN

Bogdan, Z., Schneider, D-R., Duic, N. (pp 253)

PREDICTION OF THERMAL RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER IN A FURNACE BY MONTE-CARLO METHOD

Bohacek, Z. (pp 259)

A SURVEY OF QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES IN MANAGING CONSUMER BANKING ACCOUNTS

Duic, N., Bogdan, Z. (pp 265)

MODELLING OF THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE DISSOCIATION OF CO2 IN THE STEAM GENERATOR FURNACE

Komel, I., Junkar, M. (pp 271)

SURFACE TEXTURE MODELLING TO PREDICT EDM SURFACE ROUGHNESS

Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 277)

STRUCTURE OF PRINCIPAL COMPONENT BASED NEURAL NETWORK MODELS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Leskovar, R., Kljajic, M. (pp 283)

METHOD OF MULTICRITERIA SIMULATION SCENARIO ASSESSMENT IN BUSINESS DECISION SUPPORT

Nikolovski, S., Fischer, D. (pp 289)

SUBSTATION RELIABILITY EVALUATION USING SIMULATION APROACH

Vukadinovic, V., Loncaric, Z., Bertic, B., Teklic, T. (pp 295)

COMPUTER MODELLING OF ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION BY WHEAT ON HEAVY SOILS

Zupanic, D. (pp 299)

JOB SCHEDULING: A CLP APPROACH

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Benis, R., Legovic, T. (pp 307)

A NEW DOS PICTURE GRABBER - SGRABT

Cvitas, M., Garvas Delic, A. (pp 313)

MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARY AS AUTHORITY DATA FILE

Filetin, T., Galinec, J. (pp 319)

THE SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING THE FIGURES OF MERIT IN MATERIALS SELECTION

Kalpic, D., Zokovic H., Anzil, J., Pukljak, D. (pp 325)

GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR THE STUDENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM

Mandic, I., Puzar, M., Tomljenovic, V. (pp 331)

A COMPUTERISED DESIGN PROCESS OF LARGE ELECTRICAL GENERATORS

Rogan-Skrapec, N., Skrlec, Dub., Cimermanovic, B. (pp 335)

INFORMATION SUBSYSTEM FOR SUPERVISING THE STATISTICAL SURVEY PROCESSING

Sostaric, A., Zazula, D., Korosec, D. (pp 341)

ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE ANALYSIS OF THE EXERCISE ECG -CARDIOA-

Wolf, P., Drastikova, J. (pp 347)

EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATION IN ECONOMY

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Aurer, B. (pp 355)

A MODIFIED DECODING ALGORITHM FOR THE FIRE CODE WITH FAST BURST ERROR CORRECTING

Gaborovic, S. (pp 361)

CATEGORIES WITH DOMAINS

Gaborovic, S. (pp 367)

LOCAL ADJUNCTION IN ORDER ENRICHED CATEGORIES

Glavan, P., Rosenzweig, D. (pp 373)

NONATOMIC RUNS OF DISTRIBUTED EVOLVING ALGEBRAS

Khammaci, T. (pp 379)

TOWARD A FORMALISATION OF SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT OBJECTS: THE ALGEBRAIC APPROACH

Orman, G. V. (385)

ON THE TRANSITION MATRICES FOR THE WORDS DERIVED BY AN "ALTERNATING GENERATION" PROCEDURE

Pogany, T. (391)

ON THE PARAMETER SHIFT INFLUENCE TO THE TOTAL WAITING TIME IN THE M/M/S/ QUEUEING SYSTEM, I.

Pogany, T., Zenzerovic, Z. (pp 397)

ON THE PARAMETER SHIFT INFLUENCE TO THE TOTAL WAITING TIME IN THE M/M/S/ QUEUEING SYSTEM, II.

BIOMETRICS

Boljevic, Z., Bilic, R. (pp 405)

COMPUTER-BASED METHOD FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF RADIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Celebic, A., Valentic-Peruzovic, M., Kern J., Cifrek, M., Magjarevic, R., Vojvodic, D., Katunaric, M. (pp 411)

EVALUATION OF THE NUMBER OF MEASUREMENTS NECESSARY TO REPRESENT THE MEAN VALUE FOR SILENT PERIOD LATENCY AND DURATION ON NON-RECTIFIED EMG SIGNALS

Hercigonja-Szekeres, M., Kern, J., Sonicki, Z., Ivankovic, D., Vuletic, S. (pp 417)

DATA ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF INFORMAL CONVERSATION INTERVIEW BY SPAD.T

Ilakovac, V., Kern.J. (pp 423)

AN ANALYSIS OF THE LENGTH OF STAY IN HOSPITALS

Jazbec, A., Delimar, N., Delimar, M., Kosicek, M., Slavic-Vrzic, V. (pp 429)

SIMULATION MODEL OF RUBELLA THE EFFECTS OF VACCINATION STRATEGIES

Lukic, N., Kruzic, T. (pp 435)

THE INCREMENT OF BLACK ALDER AS MONITORING FOREST CONDITIONS IN THE TUROPOLJSKI LUG FOREST

Petrovecki, M., Dezelic, Gj., Marusic, M., Uzarevic, B., (pp 441)

RECOGNITION OF LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA IMMUNOPHENOTYPE PATTERN; THE USE OF COMPUTER ALGORITHM

Slavic-Vrzic, V., Delimar, M., Kosicek, M., Jazbec, A. (pp 447)

APPLICATION OF THE SIMULATION MODEL IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE MEASLES IMMUNITY

Valentic, M., Celebic, A., Prpic, G., Magjarevic, R., Cifrek, M. (453)

THE EVALUATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL SYMMETRY WITH A NEW PC-BASED SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC AND GNATHOSONIC REGISTRATIONS OF MANDIBULAR KINETICS

Vojvodic, D., Predanic-Gasparac, H., Kern, J., Celebic, A., Brkic, H. (459)

EVALUATION OF THE BOND STRENGTH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VENEERING MATERIALS AND ALLOYS DEPENDING ON LABORATORY PROCEDURES AND AGEING TREATMENTS

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Antonic, O., Belusic, R., Ananic, M., Kusan, V. (pp 467)

GRID 1.0: DEVELOPMENT OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY GIS-FUNCTIONS

Krajcar, S., Skrlec, Dav., Blagajac, S. (pp 471)

THE ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION OF A GIS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY

Lapaine, Milj., Francula N. (pp 479)

AWARDED STUDENT'S WORKS

Lapaine, Milj., Lapaine Mir. (pp 485)

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CONIC SECTION PENCILS

Mladineo, N., Knezic, S., Pavasovic, S. (pp 491)

DSS FOR ALLOCATING PARISH CENTRES IN TERMS OF REGIONAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Petrovic, B., Petrovic V. (pp 499)

THE ANAGLYPHICAL PRESENTATION OF SPATIAL DATA

Petrovic, B., Petrovic V. (pp 505)

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SUPPLEMENT (Late Papers)

Mernik, M., Zumer, V., Hribernik, M. (pp 515)

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