Pula, Croatia, June 13-16, 2000

Editors Damir Kalpic Vesna Hljuz Dobric

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

CO-SPONSORED BY

• WSES  World Scientific and Engineering Society

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 Biometric Society
• 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 Informtaion Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge
• 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 Neuman Computer Society, Budapest
• Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
• School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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. Gams, Slovenia
V. Glavinic, Croatia	V. Hlupic, UK
A. Javor, Hungary	C. Jones, UK
T. Legovic, Croatia	S. Loncaric, Croatia
P. Long, UK	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

PREFACE

KEYNOTE LECTURES

Atkinson, C., Eldabi, T., Paul, R. J., Pouloudi, N. (pp 3)

THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS AND COMPUTING (CHIC)

Bratko, I. (pp 23)

MODELLING OPERATOR'S SKILL BY MACHINE LEARNING

Kovács, G. (pp 31)

TELECOTTAGES IN HUNGARY

Stachowicz, M. S.  (pp 41)

FUZZY BOUNDARIES

Vrsalovic, D.  (pp 49)

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS OF THE NEW INTERNET ECONOMY

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Gusev, M., Misev, A., Popovski, G., Mitrevski, P. (pp 55)

REDUCING THE NUMBER OF INSTRUCTIONS

Hudec, J. (pp 61)

METHODOLOGY OF FUNCTIONAL TEST SYNTHESIS AND VERIFICATION FOR VLSI SYSTEMS

Mitrevski, P., Gusev, M., Misev, A. (pp 67)

PREDICTION AND SPECULATION TECHNIQUES IN ILP

Volner, R. (pp 63)

SECURITY SYSTEM FOR ROAD AUTOMOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Baldwin, L. P., Kuljis, J. (pp 83)

VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING PROGRAMMING

Hebel, Z., Kajganic, B., Delimar, M. (pp 91)

ON SPARSE MATRICES IN C++ USING TEMPLATES AND COLLECTION CLASSES PART I - MODELLING POWER SYSTEM MATRICES

Juric, R. (pp 97)

EXTREME PROGRAMMING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

Pozgaj, Z. (pp 105)

REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS USING VORD

Vrcek, N., Kermek, D. (pp 111)

INTEGRATION OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING SOFTWARE USING DESIGN PATTERNS AND DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS TECHNOLOGY

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Curko, K., Indihar Stemberger, M., Jaklic, J. (pp 119)

A COMPARISON OF DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPT IN CROATIAN AND SLOVENIAN LARGER COMPANIES

Di Sciascio, E., Donini, F. M., Mongiello, M. (pp 125)

SEMANTIC INDEXING IN IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING DESCRIPTION LOGIC

Groznik, A., Kovacic, A. (pp 133)

STRATEGIC IS PLANNING – SLOVENE EXPERIENCE

Volarevic, M., Strasberger, V., Pacelat, E. (pp 141)

A PHILOSOPHY OF THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Cubrilo, M., Malekovic, M. (pp 149)

SOME RELATIONSHIPS AMONG KNOWLEDGE OPERATORS, THE PAST TEMPORAL OPERATOR ONCE, AND THE FUTURE TEMPORAL OPERATORS IN MULTI–AGENT SYSTEMS

Granic, A., Stankov, S., Glavinic, V. (pp 157)

USER INTERFACE ASPECTS OF AN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM

Madevska-Bogdanova, A., Nikolic, D. (pp 165)

A GEOMETRICAL MODIFICATION OF SVM OUTPUTS FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION

Petcu, D. (pp 171)

TOWARDS THE AUTOMATIC NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ODES

Radevski, V., Bennani, Y., Cakmakov, D. (pp 177)

A RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT OF NN BASED OCR USING RULES AND COMMITTEE CLASSIFIERS

Segvic, S., Stanisavljevic, V., Kalafatic, Z. (pp 183)

A SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR IMAGE ACQUISITION AND CAMERA CONTROL IN AN ACTIVE COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM

Zdravkova, K. (pp 189)

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR AN INTELLIGENT CHATTERBOT

MULTIMEDIA AND INTERNET COMPUTING

Benesch, T.(pp 197)

EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE INTERNET

Bosilj Vuksic, V., Curko, K., Pejic Bach, M. (pp 205)

INTERNET IN CROATIAN LARGE COMPANIES: EXPERIENCES AND TRENDS

Ceric, V. (pp 211)

ADVANCEMENTS AND TRENDS IN THE WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCH

Fertalj, K., Helman, T., Mornar, V. (pp 221)

A WEB–BASED ADVERTISING SYSTEM

Fischer, I., Wiest, S., Zell, A. (pp 229)

AN EXAMPLE OF GENERATING INTERNET–BASED COURSE MATERIAL

Klajnsek, G., Zadravec, M., Podgorelec, D., Zalik, B. (pp 235)

REPRESENTING THE SIGHTS OF A TOWN USING VRML

Muzak, G., Cavrak, I., Zagar, M. (pp 241)

THE VIRTUAL LABORATORY PROJECT

Strnad, D., Guid, N. (pp 247)

THE TEXTURE ANIMATOR

Volner, R. (pp 253)

CATV – GATEWAY BETWEEN TRADITIONAL VIDEO SERVICES AND NEW MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Caput-Jogunica, R. (pp 263)

DATA IMPUTATION USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD IN KYNESIOLOGY

Rodaro, S., Gregori, D. (pp 267)

MULTILEVEL MODELS FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES: SOME NOTES ON MODEL STABILITY

Stacey, A., Kildea, D. (pp 275)

GENETIC ALGORITHM SEARCH FOR LARGE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS WITH SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES

Simic, D., Jazbec, A., Hrsak, J., Sega, K., Sojat, V., Vadic, V., Pavlovic, M. (pp 281)

AIR POLLUTION AND THE AGGRAVATION OF THE SYMPTOMS OF COPD IN CHILDREN

Zanchi, V., Papic, V., Despalatovic, A. (pp 287)

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT IN 3D MEASUREMENT WITH COMMERCIAL CAMERAS

Ziha, K. (pp 293)

USAGE OF AVERAGE UNCERTAINTY MEASURES

BIOMETRICS

Doi, J., Miyake, T. (pp 301)

THREE–DIMENSIONAL FISH BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS USING SUCCESSIVE GEOMETRIC MODELING

Gunjaca, J., Sarcevic, H. (pp 307)

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF THE WHEAT GERMINATION DATA

Gunjaca, J., Satovic, Z., Kolak, I. (pp 311)

COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE TRAIT DATA IN CLASSIFICATION OF GENE BANK ACCESSIONS

Jazbec, A., Simic, D., Corovic, N., Malinar, M., Pavlovic, M. (pp 317)

COFFEE CONSUMPTION AND ALL–CAUSE AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN CROATIA

Pecina, M., Gunjaca, J. (pp 323)

MULTIVARIATE DISTANCE AND CLASSIFICATION OF WINTER WHEAT BREEDING PROGRAMS

Stachowicz, M. S., Lemke, D. (pp 329)

COLOR RECOGNITION

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Atanasijevic-Kunc, M., Karba, R. (pp 337)

MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLER TUNING BY GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Bogdan, Z., Schneider, D. R. (pp 343)

INFLUENCE OF BURNER PERFORMANCE ON SO3 GENERATION

Cancer, V. (pp 351)

FROM SIMULATION WITH A BUSINESS PROCESS OPTIMISATION MODEL TO ECO–EFFICIENCY

Crepinsek, M., Mernik, M., Zumer, V. (pp 357)

A METAEVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR THE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM

Golub, M., Jakobovic, D. (pp 363)

A NEW MODEL OF GLOBAL PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHM

Grzymkowski, R., Korek, K. (pp 369)

THE APPLICATION OF R–FUNCTION THEORY IN INVERSE PROBLEMS OF HEAT CONDUCTION

Krivograd, S., Zalik, B. (pp 377)

A DETERMINATION OF TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN GIS APPLICATIONS

Lanzarini, L., Sanz, C., Naiouf, M., Romero, F. (pp 383)

MIXED ALTERNATIVE IN THE ASSIGNMENT BY CLASSES VS. CONVENTIONAL METHODS FOR CALCULATION OF INDIVIDUALS LIFETIME IN GAVAPS

Mladineo, N., Knezic, S. (pp 391)

OPTIMISATION OF FOREST FIRE SENSOR NETWORK USING GIS TECHNOLOGY

Ratkov, Al., Georgiev, Tz., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A. (pp 397)

MODELLING OF L–VALINE FED–BATCH FERMENTATION PROCESS

Skok, M., Škrlec, D., Krajcar, S. (pp 403)

THE NON–FIXED DESTINATION MULTIPLE DEPOT CAPACITATED VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Skorin-Kapov, D. (pp 409)

ON COST ALLOCATION IN NETWORKS WITH THRESHOLD BASED DISCOUNTING

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Gaborovic, S. (pp 417)

ON THE DECIDABILITY OF RESTRICTION IN THE PARTIAL LAMBDA CALCULUS

Gaborovic, S. (pp 423)

SUBSTITUTIVITY PROPERTY IN THE PARTIAL LAMBDA CALCULUS

Lamot, M., Zalik, B. (pp 429)

ALGORITHMS FOR TRIANGULATING SIMPLE POLYGONS

DESIGN, METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Danaher, M. (pp 439)

EXPERT SYSTEMS – A DESIGN APPLICATION

Díaz, J., Osorio, M. A., Amadeo, A. P. (pp 445)

INTRODUCING A DISTANCE LEARNING VERSION OF A POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM ON NETWORKING IN ARGENTINA

Laggoune, H., Gouton, S. P. (pp 451)

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE WELDING ZONE

Martinovic, G., Hocenski, Z., Budin, L. (pp 457)

VALIDATION OF SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS FOR APERIODIC TASKS IN THE REAL TIME SYSTEMS

TECHNICAL PRESENTATION

Starnes, W. W. (pp 465)

INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT TOOLS: FUNDAMENTAL PROTECTION FOR BUSINESS–CRITICAL SYSTEMS, DATA AND APPLICATIONS