• SRCE University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb

Co-organized by

• Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb
• Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Vara�din
• "Jozef Stefan" Intitute, Ljubljana
• London School of Economics

Under the auspices of

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• ETAN
• Ministry of Science, Technology and Informatics, Republic of Croatia

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

Chair

V. Luzar

Members

B. Aurer

V. Dobric

Dj. Ercegovac

T. Gudelj

B. Radic

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