ISSN 1330-1012

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

19th International Conference on
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES
ITI '97

Pula, Croatia, June 17-20, 1997

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
M. Becue, Spain I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, Austria L. Budin, Croatia
V. Ceric, Croatia G. Doukidis, Greece
I. Futo, Hungary V. Glavinic, Croatia
A. Javor, Hungary C. Jones, UK
T. Legovic, Croatia P. Long, UK
V. Luzar-Stiffler, 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 A. Seila, UK
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. Golubic
I. Maric
M. Mauher

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Billard, L. (pp 3)
SOME INFERENCE RESULTS FOR PLANT AND RELATED EPIDEMIC PROCESSES
Bratko, I. (pp 13)
APPLICATIONS OF LEARNING IN LOGIC
Futo, I. (pp 25)
INTRODUCTION OF ON-LINE SERVICES IN CENTRAL EUROPE CASE STUDY: HUNGARY
Gavish, B. (pp 31)
LEO/MEO BASED GLOBAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Hammer, D. K., Piber, H.(pp 33)
THE RULES OF LEAN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Skorin-Kapov, J., Labourdette, J.-F. (pp 49)
ON THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH REGULAR AND ARBITRARY TOPOLOGIES
Smailagic, A.(pp 59)
THE CMU WEARABLE COMPUTERS: A NEW GENERATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Teklic, T., Vukadinovic, V., Loncaric, Z (pp 69)
COMPUTER MODEL OF THE FERTILIZER RECOMMENDATIONS ACCORDING TO SOIL ANALYSES BY THE EUF-METHOD
Vukadinovic, V., Loncaric, Z., Teklic, T. (pp 75)
AGROCHEMICAL MAPPING OF THE SOIL FERTILITY WITH GRAPHIC DISPLAY OF FERTILIZATION RECOMMENDATIONS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Akoka, J., Comyn-Wattiau, I. (pp 83)
AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING JUDICIAL RISKS IN PUBLIC CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT
Bielikova, M., Navrat, P. (pp 91)
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT TOOLS EVALUATION: EDUCATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Borgulya, I. (pp 99)
GENERALISATION WEIGHTNUMBERS OF CRITERIA BY FUZZY SYSTEMS
Dalbelo Basic, B., Ribaric, S., Grbac I. (pp 105)
AN EXTENSION OF REASONING WITH FUZZY TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE
Gams, M. (pp 111)
INTELLIGENT AGENTS - A NEW SW BREED
Lanzarini, L., Vargas Camacho, M. T., Badran, A. F., De Giusti, A. (pp 117)
AN APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ELEMENTS CLASSIFICATION IN A BLOOD SAMPLE
Madevska, A., Zdravkova, K. (pp 125)
DATA SCALING IN FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS
Mikulic, D., Pause, Z. (pp 131)
THE APPLICATION OF NEUROSHELL 2 IN PREDICTING THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND WORKABILITY OF CONCRETE
Slavica, M., Sercer, M., Catic, I. (pp 137)
EXPERT SYSTEM FOR TROUBLESHOOTING AND INJECTION MOULDING PROCESS CONTROL
Topic, D., Kovacevic, D., Kovacevic, A. (pp 145)
AN EXPERT SYSTEM IN THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT: AN OBSERVATION
Trajkovski, G., Stojanov, G., Bozinovski, S., Bozinovska,L., Janeva, B. (pp 153)
FUZZY SETS AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN CNV DETECTION

BIOMETRICS
Delimar, N., Delimar, M., Korenjak, P. (pp 161)
PREDICTIONS ESTIMATED FROM REPORTED DATA
Filipcic, L., Curik I., Soelkner J. (pp 169)
GENETIC VARIABILITY AND STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF THE CROATIAN SIMMENTAL BREED BASED ON PEDIGREE INFORMATION
Gunjaca, J., Pecina, M. (pp 175)
THE USE OF REML IN VARIETY TESTING
Jazbec, A., Simic, D., Pavlovic, M., Hrsak, J., Peros-Golubicic, T. (pp 179)
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF OUTDOOR NO2 ON INCIDENCE OF EMERGENCY ROOM CASES OF HYPERREACTIVE LUNG DISEASES IN ADULTS
Kruzic, T. (pp 185)
SAMPLING THE FOREST STAND HEIGHT CURVE BY PPS METHOD
Kusan, V. (pp 191)
DESCRIBING FOREST STRUCTURE USING CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Lanzarini, L., Estelrrich, P., Vargas Camacho, M. T., De Giusti, A. (pp 197)
REAL TIME ANALYSIS OF THE NYSTAGMUS AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS IN BALANCE DISTURBANCES
Simic, D., Jazbec, A., Pavlovic, M., Hrsak J. (pp 207)
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF OUTDOOR NO2 ON INCIDENCE OF EMERGENCY ROOM CASES OF HYPERREACTIVE LUNG DISEASES IN CHILDREN

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Alonistioti, A., Kostarakis, P., Tsagkaris, N. (pp 215)
FORMAL DESIGN OF SWITCHING FUNCTIONALITY FOR IN/UMTS HANDOVER SERVICE PROVISION
Arias, C. I. S., Daltrini, B. M. (pp 221)
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR THE USER INTERFACE DESIGN PROCESS
Cavrak, I., Stranjak, A., Zagar, M. (pp 227)
REMOTE ACCESS TO GPIB-BASED EQUIPMENT USING PUBLIC COMPUTER NETWORKS
Glavinic, V., Kapetanovic, D. (pp 233)
MODELING TOPOLOGY AND THROUGHPUT IN DISTRIBUTED QUERY SYSTEMS
Hudec, J. (pp 239)
VHDL-BASED HIGH-LEVEL SYNTHESIS: THE UNIFORM APPROACH TO FUNCTIONAL TEST GENERATION OF VLSI SYSTEMS
Pehar, D., Delija, D. (pp 245)
IMPROVING DATA SECRECY IN PERSONAL COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT USING ON-LINE ENCRYPTION

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Ferligoj, A. (pp 253)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Georgiev, Tz., Zlateva, Tz., Georgieva, M., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A., Ratkov, Al. (pp 263)
AN INTEGRATED STATISTICAL APPROACH FOR MEDIUM FORMULATION
Gligorova, L., Kustura, M. (pp 269)
THE SAMPLE FOR THE LABOUR FORCE SURVEY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA IN 1996
Kosmelj, K., Cedilnik, A. (pp 275)
COMPOSITE SAMPLE MEAN AND ITS PROPERTIES
Ristov, S., Boras, D., Lauc, T. (pp 283)
LZ COMPRESSION OF STATIC LINKED LIST TRIES
Tepes, B., Szirovicza, L., Primorac, M., Sujoldzic, A. (pp 289)
RECOGNITION OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES BY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM)

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Abdi, M. K., Rahmouni, M. K. (pp 299)
FORMAL SPECIFICATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS BY REWRITE LOGIC
Goczyla, K. (pp 307)
ACCESSING OBJECTS BY MULTIVALUED ATTRIBUTES USING THEPARTIAL-ORDER TREE
Jelovac, N. (pp 313)
AFFINITY ANALYSIS ON VOLUMETRICS
Laback, O., Laback, P. (pp 319)
THE SPACE OCES REPRESENTING A BASE OF MEDICAL ACTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
Laktic, I., Laktic, V., Laktic, S. (pp 323)
COMPUTER CONTROL AND DATA PROCESSING IN THE SUGAR REFINERY LABORATORY
Stoyan, H. (pp 331)
WW-PERSON - A KERNEL OF A WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTED GENEALOGICAL HYPERTEXT SYSTEM

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Ban, D., Zarko, D., Maljkovic, Z. (pp 343)
COMPUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF SOME TURBOGENERATOR PARAMETERS USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Jakobovic, D. (pp 351)
ADAPTIVE GENETIC OPERATORS IN ELIMINATION GENETIC ALGORITHM
Jelenkovic, L., Omrcen-Ceko, G. (pp 357)
EXPERIMENTS WITH MULTITHREADING IN PARALLEL COMPUTING
Manger, R. (pp 363)
CORRECTNESS OF A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING PATH PROBLEMS
Orman, G. V. (pp 369)
SYMMETRY AND INVARIANCE IN SOME GENERATIVE SYSTEMS
Percinkova, B., Radeski, D. (pp 375)
AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE EXCHANGE PROCEDURE FOR SPIRAL SOLUTION CURVES IN MULTIVARIABLE NONLINEAR STATIC MODELS
Scitovski, R., Salic, R., Petric, K., Sabo K. (pp 383)
OPTIMAL ALLOCATION OF NODES FOR SURFACE GENERATING
Urbiha, I. (pp 389)
VERIFICATION OF PARALLEL PROGRAMS USING EVOLVING ALGEBRAS
Vesel, A. (pp 395)
A HEURISTIC APPROACH TO THE INDEPENDENCE NUMBER OF GRAPHS

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Batos, V., Kalpic, D., Mornar, V. (pp 403)
APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING IN SOFTWARE PRODUCTION PLANNING
Bogdan, Z., Duic, N., Schneider D. R (pp 409)
INFLUENCE OF BURNER INCLINATION OF FURNACE BEHAVIOR
Breitenecker, F. (pp 415)
STATE EVENTS IN CONTINUOUS SIMULATION CLASSIFICATION AND NEW APPROACH
Delimar, M., Blagajac, S., Krajcar, S. (pp 427)
MULTIPLE RESOLUTION SMALL AREA LOAD FORECASTING
Dugonik, B., Brezocnik, Z. (pp 433)
DIGITAL SEQUENTIAL CIRCUIT FAULT TEST AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD BASED ON DIGITAL SIMULATION
Flegar, I., Bosak, D., Fischer, D. (pp 439)
ANALYSIS OF A NONLINEAR SECOND ORDER CIRCUIT WITH SUPPOSED CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR
Georgiev, Tz., Georgieva, M., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A., Ratkov, Al. (pp 445)
MODELLING AND OPTIMISATION OF SIMULTANEOUS L-LYSINE AND L-THREONINE PRODUCTION BY FERMENTATION
Golub, M., Budin Posavec, A. (pp 451)
USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR ADAPTING APPROXIMATION FUNCTIONS
Iovea, M., Marinescu, A., Georgescu, G., Rizescu, C., Chitescu, P. (pp 457)
AN OBJECT ORIENTED MODELLING SYSTEM FOR INTERACTION SIMULATION IN 3D INDUSTRIAL COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
Kent, K. J., Skorin-Kapov, D. (pp 463)
DISTANCE MONOTONIC STABLE COST ALLOCATION SCHEME FOR THE MINIMUM COST SPANNING TREE NETWORK
Kovacevic, D., Ujdurovic, Z., Kovacevic, A. (pp 469)
SOFTWARE SIMULATION OF A FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER
Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 477)
ADAPTIVE ON-LINE OPTIMISATION OF CHEMICAL PROCESS BY ENHANCED RLS ESTIMATION
Labas, M. (pp 483)
JUDGEMENTAL FORECASTING SUPPORT MODELS
Lalis, I., Adamy, M., Liska, M. (pp 489)
DISCRETE EVENT ORIENTED SIMULATOR WITH OPEN INTERFACE
Legovic, T. (pp 495)
PREDICTION OF SEAWATER QUALITY AROUND ISLAND RAB
Liska, M., Adamy, M., Lalis, I. (pp 501)
OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERFACE BUILDER FOR SIMULATOR APPLICATIONS
Zmijarevic, Z., Krajcar, S., Skrlec, D. (pp 507)
NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM AND VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS
Ziha, K. (pp 513)
POST OPTIMAL UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT

MULTIMEDIA

Cakmakov, D. (pp 521)
LINKING DOCUMENT PASSAGES IN HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS
Ceric, V. (pp 527)
WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCH: TECHNIQUES, TOOLS ANDSTRATEGIES
Varga M. (pp 535)
A REFERENCE MODEL FOR DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Bielikova, M. (CEEPUS Invited Lecture) (pp 543)
SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
Calvo-Manzano Villalon, J. A., Cervera Bravo, J., San Feliu Gilabert, T. (pp 551)
SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: MESOPYME MODEL
Juric, R. (pp 557)
THE UNIFIED MODELLING LANGUAGE A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF MODELLING SOLUTIONS
Mahnic, V. (pp 565)
OBERON AS A TEACHING LANGUAGE FOR THE INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE
Ziha, K. (pp 571)
PREFOR - THE FORTRAN PRE-COMPILER FOR ALL SOURCE FORMS
PUBLISHED BY: SRCE University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb
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