ISSN 1330-1012

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

17th International Conference on
"INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERFACES"
ITI '95

Pula, Croatia, June 13-16, 1995

Editors
Damir Kalpic
Vesna Hljuz Dobric


ORGANIZED BY


SPONSORED BY


UNDER THE AUSPICES OF


CO-OPERATING INSTITUTIONS



INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman
D. Kalpic,
Department of Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Members
M. Becue, Spain I. Bratko, Slovenia
F. Breitenecker, AustriaL. Budin, Croatia
V. Ceric, Croatia G. Doukidis, Greece
A. Javor, Hungary B. Jeren, Croatia
C. Jones, UK T. Legovic, Croatia
P. Long, UK V. Luzar, Croatia
R. Manger, Croatia M. T. Molfino, Italy
A. Morin, France I. Olkin, USA
R. J. Paul, UK M. Pidd, UK
S. Ribaric, Croatia D. Rosenzweig, Croatia
E. Saliby, Brasil A. Seila, UK
D. Skorin-Kapov, USA A. Smailagic, USA
V. Vojtek, Slovakia M. A. Vouk, USA
S. Vuletic, Croatia M. Zagar, Croatia

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman
S. Krajcar
Vice Chair
V. Hljuz Dobric
Members
Z. Golubic V. Graf
I. Maric M. Mauher
B. Radic M. Hercigonja Szekeres

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREFACE

INVITED PAPERS

Burkard, R.E., Cela, E., Dudas, T., Woeginger, G.J. (pp 3)
MINIMIZATION OF NOISE IN TREE-LIKE COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES
Cantoni, V., Caputo, G., Lombardi, L. (pp 7)
ATTENTIONAL LOOPS IN VISION SYSTEMS
Coulson, G., Blair, G., Davies, N. (pp 15)
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE ART IN SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
Kopsa, L. (pp 35)
THE AUSTRIAN LAND REGISTRY DATABASE
Pavesic, N. (pp 39)
CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION BY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
Skorin-Kapov, D., Skorin-Kapov, J. (pp 49)
ON HUB LOCATION MODELS

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Bobek, S., Lesjak, D. (pp 65)
APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER BASED SERVICES
Curko, K. (pp 71)
INFORMATION SUBSYSTEM SOLUTION IN RETAILING AND EXECUTIVE POS MODULES IN CLIENT/SERVER ENVIRONMENT
Lauc, D., Zubrinic, T. (pp 77)
MULTIPLE CROATIAN HYPHENATION
Lesjak, D., Bobek, S. (pp 85)
APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USAGE IN SMALL SLOVENIAN FIRMS
Mandic, I., Puzar, M. (pp 91)
A METHODOLOGY OF GENERATING DOCUMENTS IN ELECTRICAL MACHINE DESIGN SOFTWARE
Mikulic, D., Krstic, V. (pp 95)
KNOWLEDGE SUPPORTED MIX DESIGN OF CONCRETE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Kukar, M., Kononenko, I., Silvester, T. (pp 103)
PROGNOSING THE FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE RECOVERY WITH MACHINE LEARNING
Nenov, R., Ljakova, K., Mileva, S. (pp 109)
AN PROGNOSTIC EXPERT SYSTEM "BAS"
Slavica, M., Sercer, M., Catic, I. (pp 113)
EXPERT SYSTEM AIDED TROUBLESHOOTING ON INJECTION MOULDINGS
Wolf, P. (pp 119)
EXPERT SYSTEM IN PROVIDING CREDIT
Yolles, M., Pirani, M. (pp 125)
DESIGNING FLEXIBLE LEARNING SYSTEMS

BIOMETRICS

Curik, I., Filipcic, L. (pp 141)
ANALYSIS OF INBREEDING LEVELS IN CROATIAN SIMMENATAL COWS
Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Tzonkov, St. (pp 147)
LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS OF BATCH AND FED-BATCH BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Hercigonja-Szekeres, M., Kern, J., Sonicki, Z., Ivankovic, D., Vuletic, S. (pp 153)
RECOGNITION OF NUTRITION PATTERN BY USING THE SPAD.T PACKAGE
Kruzic, T., Kusan, V. (pp 159)
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PENDUCULATE OAK TREES IN LOWLAND FORESTS
Loskovska, S., Kopacek, P. (pp 165)
VALIDATING LABORATORY TEST RESULTS BY AN EXPERT SYSTEM
Petrovecki, M., Knezevic, F., Juric, G., Jazbec, A., Separovic, V. (pp 171)
PREDICTION OF DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH NODULAR MALIGNANT MELANOMA

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Baelter, O., Lantz, A. (pp 179)
WHAT CAUSES PROBLEMS WITH EMAIL?
Benis, R., Bujanovic, I. (pp 187)
THE DESIGN OF NEW PROTOCOL DRIVER FOR NETWORKING WITH NEOS
Bujanovic, I., Benis, R. (pp 193)
A NEW DOS MULTITASKER AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION FOR NETWORKING WITH NEOS
Dukic, Z., Vojnovic, B. (pp 199)
PROGRAMMING APPLICATIONS FOR ACCESSING INTERNET AT MICROSOFT WINDOWS PLATFORM
Fasung, J., Hajduk, J., Benuskova, L., Vojtek, V. (pp 205)
OPTIMIZATION OF THE TOTAL COMMUNICATION COST OF MAPPING OF PROCESSES ONTO PROCESSORS BY MEANS OF A GENETIC ALGORITHM
Hudec, J. (pp 211)
VLSI SYSTEM TEST DESIGN: THE METHOD, EXPERIENCE AND SOME RESULTS IN MICROPROCESSOR FUNCTIONAL TEST DESIGN WITH EFFECTIVE TOOL - AFTG
Motik, B., Glavinic, V. (pp 217)
ON SEMANTICS REPRESENTATION OF LOTOS PROGRAMS

DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

Bahovec, V., Cota, B., Erjavec, N. (pp 227)
SHORT-RUN FORECASTING OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND INVENTORIES OF FINISHED PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Blagajac, S., Krajcar, S. (pp 235)
A CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR THE PAST ELECTRIC LOAD DATA ANALYSIS
Dabrowska, I., Depowska, D. (pp 241)
CHARACTER SEGMENTATION METHOD IN PROPORTIONAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION
Depowska, D., Dabrowska, I. (pp 247)
MODIFICATION OF THE CHARACTER PRECLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR FOUR-STRIPED LETTERS
Kosmelj, K. (pp 253)
HOW TO HANDLE TRUNCATED DATA
Kovarova, K. (pp 259)
LIKELIHOOD-RATIO-TEST FOR THE STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Mooney, C.Z. (pp 263)
THE PERFORMANCE OF BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AROUND OLS SLOPE COEFFICIENTS IN SMALL SAMPLES WITH NON-NORMAL ERROR STRUCTURE
Ristov, S. (pp 269)
SPACE SAVING WITH COMPRESSED TRIE FORMAT - HOW TO ACCESS A FEW MILLION WORDS IN A REAL TIME ON A PC
Tepes, B., Manucci, M., Boras, D., Mateljan, V., Strunje, M. (pp 275)
TOPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TAGGING
Ziha, K. (pp 281)
THE RELATION OF DESCRIPTIVE SAMPLING TO THE LATIN HYPERCUBE METHOD

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Dadic, V., Srdelic, M., Grubisic, A. (pp 289)
OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM AND DATABASES OF THE ADRIATIC SEA
Lapaine, M., Francula, N., Lovric, P. (pp 295)
CROATIAN GEODETIC TERMINOLOGY
Pribicevic, B., Skrlec, D., Krajcar, S. (pp 301)
MULTIPLE VEHICLE DISPATCH PROBLEM AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Bosilj Vuksic, V. (pp 309)
OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION
Calles, M., Cuevas, G. (pp 315)
IDENTIFICATION OF CLASSES AND INHERITANCE HIERARCHIES FROM A CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL
Janas, J.M. (pp 323)
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO DATABASE DENORMALIZATION
Li, L. (pp 329)
AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH FOR TEMPORAL DATA
Zagi, H., Petrovecki, M., Smoljanovic, M., Kovacic, Z., Poljak, M. (pp 335)
PESTICIDE INFORMATION SYSTEM; BASIC INVESTIGATION CONCEPT AND INTRODUCTORY STUDY

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Arbenz, P., Slapnicar, I. (pp 343)
AN ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE BLOCK-JACOBI ALGORITHM FOR COMPUTING THE SVD
Bogataj, T. (pp 349)
MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF TDR-BASED DISCONTINUITY-LOCATION IN TRANSMISSION LINES
Gaborovic, S. (pp 355)
A CONSTRUCTION OF PARTIAL PRODUCT AND PARTIAL EXPONENTIATION BY LOCAL ADJUNCTION
Gaborovic, S. (pp 361)
STRONG DISCRIMINABILITY IN LAMBDA CALCULUS
Horvat, M., Guid, N., Oblonsek, C. (pp 367)
C1 PROCEDURALLY DEFINED LOFTED SURFACES
Kacarska, M., Andonov, D. (pp 373)
OPTIMAL MODULE DISTRIBUTION FOR PIPELINE DIGITAL FILTER ANALYSIS ALGORITHM
Kon-Popovska, M., Grad, J. (pp 379)
IMPLICIT CRITICAL REGIONS DETERMINATION FOR THE SOLUTION OF PARAMETRIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM WITH SYSTEM MATRIX PARAMETRIZATION
Manger, R. (pp 385)
EXPERIMENTS WITH PARALLEL ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING PATH PROBLEMS
Vesel, A., Guid, N., Zalik, B. (pp 393)
FAST DEGREE REDUCTION

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Angelov, P. (pp 401)
AN APPROACH TO OPTIMISATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS
Atanasijevic-Kunc, M., Karba, R., Gril, D. (pp 407)
EFFICACY COMPARISON OF CONTROLLERS FOR PRESSURE - LEVEL PILOT PLANT
Balarin, F. (pp 413)
A FORMALISM AND A VERIFICATION METHOD FOR BUS-BASED SYSTEMS
Bogdan, Z. (pp 419)
STEAM GENERATOR DESIGN BASED ON MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
Cielatkowski, J., Goczyla, K. (pp 425)
JOURNEY PLANNING IN A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK
Fischer, D., Nikolovski, S. (pp 431)
GENERATING RANDOM VARIABLES FOR ARBITRARY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
Grzymkowski, R., Kapusta, A. (pp 437)
THE NUMERICAL AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD IN THE THERMAL THEORY OF FOUNDRY
Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 443)
BIOREACTOR MODELING BY NEURAL NETS: SINGULAR VALUE AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION
Majdandzic, N. (pp 449)
COMMON MODEL OF THE PLANNING OF PREPARATION, ASSEMBLY AND SCHEDULING OF PRODUCTION
Mirkovic, D. (pp 455)
SIMULATION OF POROUS MEDIA FLOW ON PARALLEL MACHINES
Piskopos, L., Kountanis, D. (pp 463)
MAXIMIZING THE VISIBILITY AREA FROM A POINT MOVING ON A CURVED SEGMENT
Scitovski, R., Jukic, D., Basic, I. (pp 469)
APPLICATION OF THE MOVING LEAST SQUARES METHOD IN SURFACE GENERATING
Scitovski, R., Marosevic, T., Jukic, D. (pp 475)
ESTIMATION OF THE OPTIMAL INITIAL CONDITIONS IN MATHEMATICAL MODEL

MULTIMEDIA

Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 483)
TOWARD AN ADAPTIVE LINKBASE MODEL IN HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS
Ko, Y.K., Jung, S.H., Choy, Y.C. (pp 489)
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SPACE FOR HYPERMEDIA SYSTEM
Malinovski, T., Gievska, S., Jordanovski, S., Mitrevski, K., Davcev, D. (pp 495)
DESIGN OF MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION USING SYNCHRONIZED VIDEO, ANIMATION AND SOUND STREAMS
Mornar, V., Fertalj, K., Kalpic, D. (pp 501)
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Rugelj, J. (pp 507)
THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN COMPUTER NETWORKS TO EDUCATION
Skala, K. (pp 513)
EVALUATION THE VISUAL INTERFACES IN MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Cvitas, M., Garvas Delic, A. (pp 521)
GETTING READY FOR CULTURAL INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
Cecuk, A-M., Vujnovic, V. (pp 529)
OVERVIEW OF DIRECTORY AND INFORMATION SERVICES USING X.500 PROTOCOL
Drastikova, J. (pp 535)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Meter, D., Breyer, H. (pp 541)
BECOMING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER ON INTERNET
Osrecki, D., Lovric-Plantic, V., Garvas Delic, A., Cvitas, M. (pp 547)
INFORMATIZATION OF THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
Stefanovski, S., Stojanov, G., Bozinovski, S. (pp 555)
USING BLACKBOARD DISTRIBUTED CONTROL MECHANISM IN EVOLUTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Banchoff Tzancoff, C., Harari, I., Diaz, J. (pp 563)
THE PROS AND CONS OF ICONIC SYSTEMS: HOW HCI INFLUENCES THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Bielikova, M., Navrat, P. (pp 575)
AN APPROACH TO BUILDING SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION USING HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE
Daneva, M. (pp 581)
ON THE COMPLETENESS OF THE CONCEPTUAL MODELLING LANGUAGE MIL
Korbar, N., Mernik, M., Zumer, V. (pp 587)
IMPLEMENTATION OF ATTRIBUTE GRAMMARS
Pavlic, M. (pp 593)
PRINCIPLES OF GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH END USERS
Snaith, J., Juric, R. (pp 599)
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BOOCH '93 AND RUMBAUGH ET AL'S OBJECT ORIENTED METHODOLOGIES

SUPPLEMENT (Late Papers)

Hocine, A., Deschamps, R., Forest, N. (pp 613)
AN EXPERT HYPERTEXT INTERFACE FOR A RELATIONAL DATABASE


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