Pula, Croatia, June 19-22, 2001

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

CO-SPONSORED BY

• SCS The Society for Computer Simulation International
• 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	V. Zanchi, Croatia
K. Zdravkova, Macedonia	M. Zagar, Croatia

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman

S. Krajcar

Vice Chair

V. Hljuz Dobric

Members

Z. Batic

I. Maric

D. Simic

PREFACE

INVITED LECTURES

Cardoso, J., Sibertin-Blanc, C. (pp 3)

ORDERING ACTIONS IN SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS OF UML

Fink, F. K. (pp 15)

MODELLING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN INNOVATIVE CONTEXT

Gatsonis, C. (pp 25)

ASPECTS OF HIERARCHICAL REGRESSION MODELING IN HEALTH SERVICES AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH

Levialdi, S. (pp 29)

VISUAL LANGUAGES: CONCEPTS, CONSTRUCTS AND CLAIMS

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Baith Mohamed A. M. (pp 37)

AN EFFECTIVE MODIFIED SECURITY AUDITING TOOL (SAT)

Brest, J., Žumer, V. (pp 43)

A COMPARISON OF THE STATIC TASK GRAPH SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS

Cicin-Sain, M., Pearce, C. E. M., Sunde, J. (pp 49)

ON THE APPLICATION OF A POLLING MODEL WITH NON-ZERO WALK TIMES AND PRIORITY PROCESSING TO A MEDICAL EMERGENCY-ROOM ENVIRONMENT

Mascolo, S., Di Sciascio, E., Grieco, A. (pp 57)

END-TO-END CONGESTION CONTROL AND BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION IN HIGH SPEED ATM NETWORKS

Milanović, N., Mornar, V. (pp 63)

A SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING BASED ON DCOM

Mitrevski, P., Gušev, M. (pp 69)

MODELING THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF AN ILP PROCESSOR

Mumolo, E., Nolich, M., Oss Noser, M. (pp 75)

A HARD REAL-TIME KERNEL FOR MOTOROLA MICROCONTROLLERS

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Slavek, N. (pp 83)

THE CONCEPT OF QUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM (QIS)

Trad, A., Kalpic, D. (pp 89)

BUILDING A XML BASED OBJECT MAPPING SYSTEM (OMS)

Zhimin, C., Guoping, R., Peng, Z., Jingui, P. (pp 95)

A SYSTEM ON VISUALIZATION OF PROGRAM EXECUTIVE PATH AND EXTRACTION OF PATH SETS

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Benesch, T. (pp 105)

FROM SUPERVISOR TO COACH

Mitakos, T., Gergatsoulis, M., Stavrakas, Y., Ioannidis, E. V. (pp 111)

REPRESENTING TIME-DEPENDENT INFORMATION IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL XML

Saunders, B., Juric, R. (pp 117)

THE IMPORTANCE OF REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE IN STUDENT LEARNING

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Glavinić, V., Granić, A. (pp 125)

INTERACTING WITH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS USING MULTIPLE VIEWS

Gomboši, M. (pp 133)

EVOLUTION OF PATH FINDING

Gorgevik, D., Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 139)

HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION BY COMBINING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES USING RULE-BASED REASONING

Kocalka, P., Vojtek, V. (pp 145)

PROBLEM SOLVING BASED ON EVOLUTIONARY NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS

Yubing, S., Honghui, P., Zuoquan, L., Dekun, H. (pp 151)

A SOFTWARE AGENT SYSTEM FOR NEWS INFORMATION DELIVERY ON INTERNET

MULTIMEDIA AND INTERNET COMPUTING

Čerić, V. (pp 159)

BUILDING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Divjak, M., Korže, D. (pp 167)

THE USE OF STREAMING AUDIO IN VRML ENVIRONMENTS

Futó, I. (pp 173)

THE ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM OF THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT

Holobar, A., Zazula, D. (pp 181)

CONCEPTUAL LEARNING OF CARDIAC ANOMALIES AND SURGERIES

Patel, K., Juric, R. (pp 187)

AN APPROACH TO DEVELOPING A WEB SITE FOR SME

Patel, V., Juric, R. (pp 193)

INTERNET USERS AND ONLINE PRIVACY. A STUDY ASSESSING WHETHER INTERNET USERS' PRIVACY IS ADEQUATELY PROTECTED

Radošević, D., Kliček, B. (pp 201)

DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHER-LEVEL MULTIMEDIA SCRIPTING LANGUAGE

Vrček, N., Kermek, D. (pp 209)

THE XML ESPERANTO OR TOWER OF BABEL: DO WE SPEAK THE SAME XML?

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Bozi, K. (pp 217)

CORE SEARCHING ON ROUGH SETS

Horvat, J., Marković, S., Perenčević, M. (pp 223)

CADAC METHODS IN MARKET RESEARCH

Javor, A. (pp 231)

PRICE INDICES IN EXTERNAL TRADE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Lee, S. M. S. (pp 237)

MINIMUM VARIANCE UNBIASED ESTIMATION BASED ON BOOTSTRAP ITERATIONS

Lužar-Stiffler, V., Milinović, M., Stiffler, C. (pp 243)

MEASURING AND MONITORING MOVEMENTS IN COURSE INTEREST AT THE UNIVERSITY COMPUTING CENTRE: A STATISTICAL PLATFORM FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND NEW COURSE DEPLOYMENT DECISIONS

Steel, S. J., Louw, N. (pp 251)

VARIABLE SELECTION IN DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS IN THE PRESENCE OF OUTLIERS

BIOMETRICS

Bolla, M. (pp 259)

PARALLEL FACTORING OF STRATA

Krivograd, S., Škarja, M., Žalik, B., Podgorelec, D. (pp 267)

LOW COST ENERGY ANALYSER OF BEINGS

Perić, S., Dalbelo Bašić, B., Gračan, J., Jazbec, A. (pp 273)

APPLYING SURVIVAL ANALYSIS FOR ESTIMATING AND COMPARING FLUSHING TIME VARIABILITY

Šimić, D., Pavlović, M., Šega, K., Hršak, J., Vađić, V., Šojat, V. (pp 279)

IS ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MORTALITY AND AIR POLLUTION DUE TO A SHORT TEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT?

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Bogdan, Ž., Baburić, M., Šerman, N. (pp 287)

OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR EL-TO ZAGREB COGENERATION PLANT

Boljunčić, V., Skorin-Kapov, D., Skorin-Kapov, J. (pp 297)

ON DELAY VERSUS CONGESTION IN DESIGNING REARRANGEABLE MULTIHOP LIGHTWAVE NETWORKS

Chakraborty, U. K., Bandyopadhyay, R., Patranabis, D. (pp 305)

A FUZZY-GENETIC APPROACH FOR AUTOMATIC TUNING OF A PID CONTROLLER

Chakraborty, U. K., Laha, D., Chakraborty, M. (pp 313)

A HEURISTIC GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING

Dimitrova, A., Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Ratkov, B., Mantchev, A. (pp 319)

MODELLING OF L-LYSINE PURIFICATION PROCESS

Jović, F., Rajković, V., Jagnjić, Ž., Vuksanović, D. (pp 325)

PREDICTIVE MODEL OF THE DISTRIBUTED HEATING

Krile, S., Kos, M. (pp 331)

A HEURISTIC APPROACH TO SATELLITE LINK CAPACITY PLANNING APPLIED IN MOBILE NETWORKS

Kurtanjek, Ž. (pp 339)

MODELLING EFFECTS OF MICROMIXING ON PERFORMANCE OF CONTINUOUS BIOREACTORS

Lujic, R., Majdandzic, N. (pp 345)

SUPPLEMENT TO DEVELOPMENT OF PRIORITY RULE MODEL IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Majdandzic, N., Maticevic, G., Lujic, R. (pp 353)

PLAN OPTIMISATION ALGORITHM GIVEN WITH LINE CHART

Pavić, I., Hebel, Z., Delimar, M. (pp 359)

POWER SYSTEM EQUIVALENT BASED ON AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

Peharda, D., Delimar, M., Lončarić, S. (pp 367)

SHORT TERM HOURLY FORECASTING OF GAS CONSUMPTION USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Taranenko, A., Vesel, A. (pp 373)

AN ELITIST GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE MAXIMUM INDEPENDENT SET PROBLEM

Vanjak, Z., Mornar, V. (pp 379)

GENERAL OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Gaborovič, S. (pp 387)

TOWARD A REDUCTION SYSTEM COMMUTING WITH BETA REDUCTION IN THE PARTIAL LAMBDA CALCULUS

Grzymkowski, R., Korek, K. (pp 393)

ON R-FUNCTION THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION IN INVERSE PROBLEMS OF HEAT CONDUCTION

Kaučič, B., Žalik, B. (pp 403)

QUASI-REGULAR TESSELLATION OF HEXAGONS

Kolodnytsky, M. M., Kovalchuk, A. M., Kuryata, S. V., Levitsky, V. G. (pp 409)

INTERACTIVE VISUAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR PROBLEM SOLVING AND TEACHING IN FINITE GROUP THEORY

Pogány, T. K., Tudor, M. (pp 417)

DIRECT WEIGHTED LAGRANGE - YEN TYPE INTERPOLATION IN L2[-p,p]2

Tepeš, B., Mateljan, V., Stojanov, T., Tepeš, T., Kesić, B. (pp 423)

DATABASE OF GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES OF CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Vukelić, A. (pp 433)

STATIONARY STOKES SYSTEM FOR QUASI-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS

Žiha, K. (pp 439)

UNCERTAINTY OF MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS OF EVENTS

DESIGN, METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Di Sciascio, E., Donini, F. M., Mongiello, M., Piscitelli, G. (pp 447)

AUTOMATIC SUPPORT FOR VERIFICATION OF SECURE TRANSACTIONS IN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT USING SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING

Gumzej, R., Colnarič, M. (pp 455)

HW/SW COMPONENTS FOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS CO-DESIGN

Hudec, J. (pp 461)

DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF VLSI FUNCTIONAL TEST SYNTHESIS

Mumolo, E., Moratto, S., Nolich, M., Vercelli, G. (pp 467)

MGP: A DISTRIBUTED, MULTI-PLATFORM, PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS

Mumolo, E., Moratto, S., Nolich, M., Vercelli, G. (pp 473)

OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN OF A MOBILE ROBOT USING UML