This year Organising Committee received 94 papers written by 175 authores from 16 countries: Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Macedonia, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK and USA.

All submitted papers have been reviewed by at least two independent referees: 54 reviews were given by 27 referees from abroad, and 119 by 56 Croatian referees. The proceedings contain 79 accepted papers, including 34 from abroad written by 153 authors. The choice of referees and the publishing policy was conducted by the International Program Committee.

Traditionally, a wide range of topics was covered indicating the variety of the participants' interests:

• Computing in Education
• Information Systems and Databases
• Software Engineering and Programming Languages
• Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
• Computer Systems and Networks
• Data Analysis, Statistics and Statistical Software
• Modelling, Simulation and Optimization
• Application of Information Technology
• Mathematics and Computation
• Biometrics
• Geographical Information Systems and Databases
• Supplement (Late Papers)

• Invited lectures given by speakers from several countries, covering different topics:
  
  I. Bratko, Slovenia;
  B. Dangerfield, UK;
  M. Pidd, UK;
  S. Zlobec, Canada;

  Presentation of the contributed papers as the essential core of the Conference. During 4 working days 51 contributed papers were presented, including 20 papers presented by foreign authors;

  A panel discussion about "Geographic Information Systems: Opinions, Experiences, Applicability";

  BIOSTAT '94, 1st Meeting of Researchers in Biometrics, organized by the Croatian Society for Biometrics;

  Software / hardware presentations and a book exhibition.

A selection of papers presented at the Conference (longer, revised versions) are considered for publishing in the Croatian international journal, written in English:

• CIT Journal of Computing and Information Technology.

We are grateful to all who have contributed to this Conference. Our special thanks go to the authors of papers and to the referees. The invited speakers give a particular flavour to the Conference. So do the moderators and the participants at the panel discussion. Sponsors and co-operating institutions gave us invaluable help, too.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 17th International Conference on "Information Technology Interfaces" ITI '95. We believe that ITI '95 will bring a growth in both the quality and richness of the conference activities, as well as in the number of participants. We hope that you, the participants of ITI '94, will help us to achieve these objectives.

June 1994