PROCEEDINGS OF THE

13th International Conference on
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES
ITI '91

Cavtat, Croatia, June 10-14, 1991

Edited by
Vlatko Ceric
Vesna Dobric
Vesna Luzar
Ray Paul


Organized by

Co-organized by

Under the auspices of



INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman
R. Paul,

Brunel University, London, UK
Vice-Chairman
V. Ceric,

Faculty of Economics,
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Members
B. Aurer, Croatia I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, Austria L. Budin, Croatia
G. Doukidis, Greece A. Javor, Hungary
V. Luzar, Croatia K. Momirovic, Croatia
D. Rosenzweig, Croatia E. Saliby, Brasil
A. Seila, USA M. A. Vouk,USA

NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair
V. Luzar
Members
B. Aurer
V. Dobric
Dj. Ercegovac
T. Gudelj
B. Radic

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREFACE

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Zupancic, J., Leskovar, R. (pp 3)
AN ANALYSIS OF KEY ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Lesjak, D., Natek, S. (pp 9)
INTERORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AS A FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO COMPETITIVENESS OF ORGANIZATION
Natek, S., Lesjak, D. (pp 15)
EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND ITS DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY
Treven, S. (pp 21)
THE INTERACTION OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
Drakulic, R. (pp 29)
HOW TO DESIGN AN OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEM
Bekic, Z. (pp 35)
PARALLEL DATABASE MACHINES FOR ACTIVE DATABASES
Kulenovic, A., Jusupovic, S. (pp 41)
USING SQL-DDP SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED FRAGMENTED DATABASES
Blesa, P., Pastor, P., Sendra, J. (pp 47)
A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS
Aniorte, P., Duboue, M., Jaber, G. (pp 53)
AN EXTENSION OF A RELATIONAL DBMS TO COMPLEX OBJECTS WITH ABSTRACT DATA TYPES IMPLEMENTED IN ADA
Kulenovic, A., Rascic, M., Stokic, D., Vedrina, M. (pp 59)
RESS-3: RELATIONAL SEMANTIC CASE DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Savnik, I., Ceglar, R., Novak, F., Dolenc, T. (pp 65)
SEMANTIC DATABASE MODEL FOR GEOMETRIC DESIGN DATA
Stanisevic, I., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Krusevac, O. (pp 71)
MODELLING NORMS BY USING NON-STANDARD LOGICS
Dulli, S., Sprugnoli, R., Veronese, L. (pp 77)
A PROLOG BASED CODE GENERATOR FOR TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE APPLICATIONS
Granic, D., Hadjina, G., Bekavac, A. (pp 83)
ACCESS TO BIOMEDICAL DATA BASES AT THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Cvitas, M., Vedris, M. (pp 91)
CROATIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE LEXICON: DATA MODEL
Paar, H., Brvar-Ivancic, S. (pp 97)
BUILDING ON-LINE THESAURUS

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Ivanovic, M., Paunic, Dj., Budimac, Z. (pp 105)
A FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION (RE)PRESENTATION
Cantone, G., Gragnani, F., Moccia, V., Sansone, F. (pp 111)
PROTOTYPING SOME FUNCTIONS OF A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT TO DEVELOP AND VERIFY HARD REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS
Kosev, J., Kosev, Z. (pp 121)
DESIGN AN IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPILER FOR A SUBSET OF THE STRUCTURED TEXT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PRODUCTIONS
Budimac, Z., Ivanovic, M. (pp 125)
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF FUNCTION APPLY IN A COMPILER OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE LispKitLisp
Galve, J., Munoz, J. L. (pp 131)
A CC- MODULA IMPLEMENTATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
Kokanovic, K. (pp 141)
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF LUT-CGM INTERPRETER DRIVER ON TOP OF THE X WINDOW SYSTEM

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Cestnik, B., Karalic, A. (pp 149)
THE ESTIMATION OF PROBABILITIES IN A ATTRIBUTE SELECTION MEASURES FOR DECISION TREE INDUCTION
Karalic, A., Cestnik, B. (pp 155)
A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO TREE-STRUCTURED REGRESSION
Filipic, B. (pp 161)
SCHEDULING WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS
Filipic, B., Junkar, M., Bratko, I., Karalic A. (pp 167)
AN APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TO A METAL-WORKING PROCESS
Kern, J., Vuletic, S. (pp 173)
INDUCTIVE LEARNING METHOD AS A TOOL FOR FORECASTING IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
Cundeva, K. (pp 179)
NEURAL NETWORKS ENABLE COMPUTERS TO TRANSLATE NATURAL LANGUAGES
Cundeva, K. (pp 187)
SEMANTIC NETWORK REPRESENTATION OF BILINGUAL DICTIONARY
Gams, M. (pp 197)
WHAT IS THE FORM OF KNOWLEDGE?

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Aurer, B., Maric, I., Vujnovic, V. (pp 205)
THE ACADEMIC-RESEARCH NETWORK OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA - PLANS AND ACTIVITY
Dreo, G., Cizek, N., Horvat, B., Zumer, V. (pp 211)
ON RELIABILITY IN PACKET SWITCHING MULTISTAGE INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS
Zazula, D., Korze, D. (pp 217)
CONCURRENT AUTOMATED TRANSFER OF DATA BETWEEN THE CENTRAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND REMOTE MICROCOMPUTERS
Hajdukovic, M., Salcic, Z., Zgonjanin, D., Kalajdzic, V., Music, A., Verina, M., Vasic, Z., Vuletic, L. (pp 223)
REMOTE UNIX PROCESSES EXECUTION SUPPORT
Ojstersek, M., Zumer, V. (pp 229)
AN INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR STATIC PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING OF TIME CRITICAL TASKS
Fazlic, E., Siljeg, R., Kliska, Z., Mehic, N. (pp 235)
SCSI ADAPTERS ON BOARD FOR THE VME BUS
Loskovska, S., Davcev, D. (pp 241)
USING ACTIVE DBMS APPROACH TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF POWER FIELDS PROTECTION
Andonov, D. A., Bryanston-Cross, P. J. (pp 247)
DIGITAL IMAGINS SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

CAD/CAM

Budimac, Z., Ivanovic, M., Putnik, Z. (pp 255)
A REPRESENTATION SCHEME FOR GRAPHICAL OBJECTS BASED ON FUNCTION DEFINITIONS IN FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
Zalik, B., Guid, N., Vesel, A. (pp 261)
DETERMINATION OF B-SPLINE BLENDING FUNCTION IN THE POLYNOMIAL TIME
Vesel, A., Guid, N., Zalik, B. (pp 267)
INTERACTIVE RATIONAL BEZIER INTERPOLATION WITH CONIC SEGMENTS-DETERMINATION OF REGULAR POINTS AND SHAPE PARAMETERS
Mehic, N., Fazlic, E., Sadagic, A., Kokanovic, K. (pp 273)
THE PROGRAPH II GRAPHICS SYSTEM
Stoiljkovic, V. (pp 279)
THE CAD/CAP/CAM SYSTEM FOR TIREFONDS
Cundev, M., Petkovska, L. (pp 285)
A NEW METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD PROBLEMS ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER
Petkovska, L., Cundev, M. (pp 293)
ESTIMATION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ELECTRONICALLY OPERATED PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR BY THE 3D-FEM
Petrovic, B., Fischer, D. (pp 299)
THE APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A DATA BASE OF A SPECIALIZED SYSTEM

DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

Vrbanec, J., Planinsic, P., Svecko, R., Cucej, Z., Djonlagic, D. (pp 307)
STATISTICAL SPECTRAL ANALYSIS BASED ON THE CHIRP-Z TRANSFORM
Jevremovic, V. (pp 313)
MODELLING MIXED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION WITH NEGATIVE WEIGHTS
Luzar, V., Smoljanovic, L. (pp 319)
IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE ORDERED CHARACTERISTIC ROOTS OF A RANDOM COVARIANCE MATRIX
Dobric, V., Momirovic, K. (pp 327)
SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN LEAST SQUARES AND ROBUST LINEAR REGRESSION ESTIMATES
Becue-Bertaut, M. (pp 337)
SPAD.T: PACKAGE FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DATA
Bonucci, A., Gabbrielli Vichi, E. (pp 343)
TWO WAY TABLES AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Tepes, B. (pp 349)
MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FIRST GLAGOLITIC PRIMERS ON CROATIAN LANGUAGE
Jankovic, B., Veskov, R., Ljubimov, N. (pp 353)
EVALUATION OF EEC SIGNALS IN SYSTEMIC PENICILLIN EPILEPSY
Veldar, E. (pp 359)
FUZZY CLUSTERING AND THE WAY OF DEFINITION OPERATION

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Hlupic, V., Pal, R. (pp 369)
A REVIEW OF SIMULATION RESEARCH IN FMS
Stone, E., Jones, C., Harris, B. (pp 377)
INVENTORY AND PRODUCTION CONTROL PACKAGE FOR COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION
Ceric, V. (pp 383)
SYSTEM DYNAMICS REVIVAL
Kljajic, M., Leskovar, R., Gradisar, M: (pp 389)
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SIMULATION MODEL AND ITS VALIDATION
Ovsenik, M. (pp 395)
A SIMULATION MODEL TO FORECAST THE DYNAMICS OF MANPOWER STRUCTURE
Kuljis, J., Paul, R. (pp 401)
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES FOR MODELLING SYSTEMS
Cvetkovic, B., Milinovic, S. (pp 409)
MODEL SIMULATION TIMING RUN COMPARISON
Stipanicev, D., Torba, Z. (pp 417)
QUANA - AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Mitreski, K., Nesovski, R. (pp 423)
IDENTIFICATION OF A SYSTEM FOR MIXING PLANT
Matko, D., Schumann, A., Zupancic, B., Karba, R. (pp 429)
MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF A DIESEL ENGINE
Barle, J., Grad, J. (pp 435)
DESIGN AN IMPLEMENTATION OF AN LP OPTIMIZER ON PC
Dusak, V. (pp 441)
ON THE EFFICIENCY OF THE GAP-ALGORITHM ON PLANAR 3-Tpc PROBLEM
Tomasic, I., Vidovic, Z. (pp 447)
MATHEMATICAL AND GRAPHIC PROCESSING OF DISCONTINUITIES IN ROCK MASS
Jelovsek, A., Ozimek, I. (pp 455)
A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION OF ISOLATED WORDS

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Acketa, D., Nikic, B. (pp 463)
A METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF FINGERPRINT MINUTIAE
Bobek, S. (pp 469)
INTERORGANOZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR BANKING
Bobek, S., Glogovsek, J. (pp 475)
EXECUTIVE SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN BANKING: A PROTOTYPE AND SOME LESSONS
Janinski, G., Mihajlov, D., Djorgjevic, S. (pp 481)
SOFTWARE FOR MONITORING THE WORK OF A TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD
Jones, C., Salman, S. (pp 487)
BUILDING SITE PLANNING USING LOTUS 1-2-3
Jusupovic, U., Kantardzic, M., Milicic, N., Martinovic, O. (pp 493)
MDMS: MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Mariani, I., Maletic, M. (pp 499)
THE USE OF STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE ON THE CROATIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE CORPUS
Mecanovic, I. ( 505)
LEGAL PROTECTION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

LOGIC AND COMPUTATION

Boerger, E., Rosenzweig, D. (invited paper) (pp 513)
A FORMAL SPECIFICATION OF PROLOG BY TREE
Ognjanovic, Z., (pp 519)
A PROOF PROCEDURE FOR MODAL LOGIC S4
Gaborovic, S. (pp 525)
ON SEPARABILITY OF INFINITE SETS OF TERMS IN LAMBDA CALCULUS
Djordjevic-Stojkovic, M. (pp 529)
FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING THE FINITE CONTINUED FRACTIONS AND EVALUATING THEIR VALUES
Hotomski, P., Kuljacic, M., Bjelica, M. (pp 535)
ASSOCIATIVE CALCULUSES COMPUTER MODELLING
Zivkov, S., Ivanovic, M., Budimac, Z. (pp 541)
A PREPROCESSOR FOR TRANSFORMATION OF CONTEXT FREE GRAMMAR TO REDUCED ONE

MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATICS

Acketa, D., Matic-Kekic, S. (pp 549)
AN ALGORITHM FOR GENERATING FINITE LOOPS, OF SOME THEIR SUBCLASSES AND PARASTROPHIC CLOSURES
Acketa, D., Putnik, Z. (pp 555)
AN ALGORITHM FOR DERIVATION OF NEW BIPARTITE GRAPHS FROM A GIVEN 2-CONNECTED SIMPLE GRAPH
Arnautovski, V., Cakmakov, D., Davcev, D. (pp 561)
A MODEL FOR POLYGON SIMILARITY ESTIMATION
Caf, D. (pp 567)
SYSTOLIC ARRAYS FOR SOLVING LINEAR SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
Gusev, M., Markovski, S., Tasic, J. (pp 573)
BROADCAST ELIMINATION AND PARALLELISATION
Timcenko, O., Petrovic, T. (581)
AN APPLICATION OF MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS TO TRAJECTORY PLANNING FOR MANIPULATION ROBOTS IN THE PREESENCE OF OBSTACLES
Simon, V. (pp 587)
INVESTIGATION OF CONVERGENCY IN FIINITE ELEMENT METHOD BY COMPUTER
Zunic, J., Budimac, Z. (pp 593)
ON SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF CURVED LINES

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