ORGANIZED BY

• SRCE University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia

SPONSORED BY

• IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
• SCS The Society for Computer Simulation International

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

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

CO-OPERATING INSTITUTIONS

• ARGESIM, Technical University Vienna
• 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 Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
• IEEE Croatia Section
  IEEE Croatia Section Computer Chapter

  John von Neumann Computer Society, Budapest

  School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University

  WSES World Scientific and Engineering Society

Chairman

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

Members

H. Adeli, USA	M. Becue, Spain
I. Bratko, Slovenia	F. Breitenecker, Austria
L. Budin, Croatia	E. Cohen, USA
V. Ceric, Croatia	G. Doukidis, Greece
I. Futo, Hungary	M. V. Glavinic, Croatia
V. Hlupic, UK	A. Javor, Hungary
C. Jones, UK	T. Legovic, Croatia
S. Loncaric, Croatia	P. Long, UK
P. Lorenz, France	V. Luzar-Stiffler, Croatia
R. Manger, Croatia	N. Mastorakis, Greece
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, USA
D. Skorin-Kapov, USA	A. Smailagic, USA
V. Vojtek, Slovakia	M. A. Vouk, USA
S. Vuletic, Croatia	K. Zdravkova, Macedonia
M. Zagar, Croatia

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman

S. Krajcar

Vice Chair

V. Hljuz Dobric

Members

Z. Batic

I. Maric

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

Adeli, H. (pp 3)

INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR LARGE-SCALE DESIGN AUTOMATION

Proszeky, G. (pp 5)

INTELLIGENT TRANSLATION SUPPORT: A DEVELOPING AREA OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Sampson, A. R. (pp 11)

PARTIAL ORDERS, OPTIMIZATION AND CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS

Saracevic, T. (pp 21)

DIGITAL LIBRARIES: DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

Schemper, M. (pp 33)

PREDICTIVE PRECISION AND EXPLAINED VARIATION IN COX AND OTHER REGRESSION MODELS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Arias, C. I. S., Daltrini, B. M. (pp 43)

WWW USER INTERFACE SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION USING AIAS

Bradac, R., Ribaric, S. (pp 49)

REAL-TIME COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR TRACKING OF ANIMALS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 57)

EXPERIMENTS IN NN BASED OCR USING COMMITTEE CLASSIFIERS

Costantino, M. (pp 63)

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNIQUES FOR EQUITY DERIVATIVES TRADING: THE IE-EXPERT SYSTEM

Cubrilo, M., Malekovic, M. (pp 71)

SOME PROPERTIES OF THE SOMETIME-HAS-NOT-BEEN TEMPORAL OPERATOR IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Jovanchevski, Gj., Karchicka, D., Bozinovski, S. (pp 79)

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF PATTERN CLASSIFICATION LEARNING USING TEACHING SPACE APPROACH

Kalafatic, Z., Ribaric, S., Stanisavljevic V. (pp 85)

OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON OPTICAL FLOW

Liposcak, Z., Loncaric, S. (pp 93)

FACE RECOGNITION FROM PROFILES USING MORPHOLOGICAL SIGNATURE TRANSFORM

Modric, A., Ceric, V. (pp 99)

EXPERT SYSTEM FOR TANK'S GUN FIRING IN COMBAT SIMULATION

Sandru, C. (pp 107)

A MULTI-AGENT ORIENTED APPROACH IN MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING

Vaida, M., Suciu, A., Buza, O., Moldovan,T. (pp 113)

IMAGE PATTERN RECOGNITION APPLICATION IN MICROSCOPIC MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS USING MULTIMEDIA BOARDS

Zdravkova, K., Trajkovska, L. (pp 119)

PRUNING ALGORITHM FOR AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS

Zhang, L., Li, J., Pan, J. (pp 125)

AN INTELLIGENT INTERFACE AGENT FOR WEB-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

BIOMETRICS

Jazbec, A., Simic, D., Pavlovic, M., Malinar, M. (pp 135)

INFLUENCE OF AGE, BODY MASS INDEX, SMOKING AND ALCOHOL INTAKE ON MORTALITY IN SOME REGIONS IN CROATIA

Korze, D., Potocnik, B. (pp 141)

EFFICIENCY OF THE IMPROVED AZTEC ALGORITHM FOR THE COMPRESSION OF ECG SIGNALS

Kovacevic, D., Loncaric, S., Sorantin, E. (pp 145)

DEFORMABLE CONTOUR BASED METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION

Mate, E., Dudasne Nagy, M., Kari, B. (pp 151)

3D PRESENTATIONS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Pecina, M., Gunjaca, J. (pp 157)

ADDITIVE MAIN EFFECTS AND MULTIPLICATIVE INTERACTION MODEL - MULTIVARIATE APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF GENOTYPE BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

Postelnicu, A., Minea, D., Sangeorzan, L., Lupu, M. (pp 163)

MODELLING THE HEMODYNAMICS IN THE HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION AND COMPUTER SIMULATION

Simic, D., Pavlovic, M., Jazbec, A., Malinar, M., Hrsak, J., Sega, K., Sojat, V., Vadic, V. (pp 169)

SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON GENERAL MORTALITY IN ZAGREB, CROATIA

Sostaric, A., Zazula, D. (pp 177)

A NEW APPROACH TO THE TIME-SCALE ANALYSIS OF EMG SIGNALS

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Chan, E., Lam, K. Y., Yuen, C.-H. (pp 185)

REAL-TIME DATA BROADCAST STRATEGIES IN MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

Gusev, M., Misev, A., Popovski, G. (pp 191)

MEMORY ADDRESS DEPENDENCIES

Kontovasilis, K., Kormentzas, G., Kourtis, A., Mitrou, N., Soldatos, J., Vayias, E. (pp 197)

A WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT PROTOTYPE ATM PLATFORMS, ASSOCIATED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RELATED TRIALS

Misev, A., Popovski, G., Gusev, M. (pp 205)

THE IMPACT OF SUPERSCALAR TECHNIQUES ON REGISTER RENAMING

Poles, D., Balogh, I., Budin, L. (pp 211)

SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FOR PERIODIC TASK SYSTEM SCHEDULING

Popovski, G., Gusev, M., Misev, A. (pp 219)

QUANTIFYING THE PERFORMANCE OF BRANCH PREDICTION SCHEME WITH THE SUPERSCALAR SIMULATOR

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Dalbelo Basic, B., Tkalec, S., Prekrat, S. (pp 227)

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTH OF WOOD FINGER JOINTS

Erjavec, N., Cota, B., Bahovec, V. (pp 233)

THE IMPACT OF MONETARY-CREDIT AGGREGATES TO THE REAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Johnson, P. (pp 241)

CALCULATING THE POWER SPECTRUM OF A TIME SERIES USING THE MARR WAVELET FUNCTION

DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND TEST, METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Glavinic, V., Gros, S., Colnaric, M. (pp 249)

AUTOMATED GENERATION OF VHDL BEHAVIORAL MODELS FOR TESTING PURPOSES

Hudec, J. (pp 255)

VHDL-BASED DESIGN AND TEST METHODOLOGY FOR VLSI / ASIC SYSTEMS

Somek, B., Dadic, M. (pp 263)

MODELING OF ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS IN DUCTS

Ziha, K. (pp 269)

USAGE OF RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY MEASURES

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Curko, K. (pp 277)

THE ROLE OF DATA WAREHOUSE IN BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING

Juric, R., Juric, J. (pp 283)

THE APPLICATION OF UML TO THE MODELLING OF AUTOMATED SUPPORT OF EVALUATING MEDICINAL PRODUCTS ACROSS DIFFERENT REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS

Kuljis, J., Pouloudi, A., Macredie, R. D., Paul, R. J. (pp 293)

A COMPARISON BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL INTERORGANISATIONAL SYSTEMS

Martonossy, L., Nagy, A., Nyul, L., Alexin, Z., Kuba, A. (pp 305)

IMAGE COMPRESSION IN SZOTE-PACS (PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATON SYSTEM) IN SZEGED

Neild, T., Jukic, N. (pp 311)

HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE INTEGRATION STRATEGIES

Salamuniccar, G., Glavinic, V. (pp 317)

ON INSURING INTEROPERABILITY OF OLE DB BASED DATA ACCESS

Stojanovski, J. (pp 325)

BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT: CROATIAN SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY (CROSBI)

Varga, M. (pp 331)

CONVERSION OF RELATIONAL INTO MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE SCHEMA

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Cvitanovic, I. (pp 341)

CALCULATION OF THE POTENTIAL FLOW ABOUT WING-BODY CONFIGURATION

Hebel, Z., Kajganic, B., Delimar, M. (pp 347)

AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF OBJECT-ORIENTED LINEAR SOLVERS FOR NEWTON-RAPHSON POWER-FLOW

Manger, R., Nogo, G. (pp 353)

A PVM PROGRAM FOR SOLVING PATH PROBLEMS IN SPARSE GRAPHS

Maruster, St., Maruster, L. (pp 359)

THE STABILITY OF STEEPEST DESCEND METHODS FOR SYSTEMS OF NONLINEAR EQUATIONS

Vesel, A.(pp 365)

AN ALGORITHM FOR RECOGNIZING SNAKES

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Bogdan, Z., Kopjar, D. (pp 373)

SIMULATION OF FIXED AND SLIDING PRESSURE MODE OF OPERATION OF THE THERMAL POWER BLOCK

Bosilj-Vuksic, V., Hlupic, V. (pp 381)

INVESTIGATING THE SUITABILITY OF PETRI NETS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING

Dimitrova, A., Georgiev, Tz., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Ratkov, Al. (pp 387)

MODELLING OF ION EXCHANGE STEP OF L-LYSINE PURIFICATION PROCESS AT THE DYNAMIC CONDITIONS

Dumanic, S., Kovacevic, D., Kovacevic, A. (pp 393)

SOFTWARE SIMULATION OF PROCESS CONTROL

Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Dimitrova, A. (pp 401)

ADAPTIVE LINEARIZING CONTROL OF FED-BATCH FERMENTATION PROCESS FOR AMINO ACID PRODUCTION

Jovic, F., Rajkovic, V., Jagnjic, Z., Zagar, D. (pp 407)

A COHORT STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEM MODELING

Nikov, A., Georgiev, Tz. (pp 413)

A FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK AND ITS MATLAB SIMULATION

Ratkov, Al., Georgiev, Tz., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Dimitrova, A. (pp 419)

ESTIMATION OF SPECIFIC RATES OF FED-BATCH FERMENTATION PROCESS FOR AMINO ACID PRODUCTION

Smuc, T., Bogunovic, N., Saric, D. (pp 425)

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR THE STEINER TREE OPTIMIZATION

Tomasevic, M., Kovacevic, D., Kovacevic, A. (pp 433)

HARDWARE SIMULATION OF GROWTH AND DECAY IN DISCRETE ENVIRONMENT

Zdravkova, K., Petkovski, Lj., Madevska, A. (pp 439)

APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN SIMULATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SETS

MULTIMEDIA

Lai, W., Danaher, M. (pp 447)

A DIAGRAM BASED INTERFACE FOR THE WWW

Prenda, T., Zagar, M., Trupec, D. (pp 453)

RASIP VIRTUAL SHOP

Volner, R. (pp 459)

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS IN INTERACTIVE CUSTOMER SYSTEM

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Fertalj, K., Kalpic, D. (pp 469)

AN OBJECT BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE

Hlupic, V., Patel, N., Choudrie, J. (pp 475)

THE REBUS STRATEGY FOR BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING

Srbljinovic, A., Balogh, I. (pp 483)

EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF CHIDAMBER AND KEMERER'S METRICS SUITE

Trad, A. (pp 491)

THE REENGINEERING RISK AND QUALITY CHECK - A PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION

Trad, A., Kalpic, D. (pp 497)

THE REENGINEERING RISK AND QUALITY CHECK - THEORETICAL BASIS