ORGANIZED BY

• SRCE University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia

SPONSORED BY

• IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
• SCS The Society for Computer Simulation International

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 Society for Biometrics
• 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 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

  School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University

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	V. Ceric, Croatia
G. Doukidis, Greece	I. Futo, Hungary
V. Glavinic, Croatia	V. Hlupic, UK
A. Javor, Hungary	C. Jones, UK
M. Kovac, Croatia	T. Legovic, Croatia
S. Loncaric, Croatia	P. Long, UK
V. Luzar-Stiffler, 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	A. Seila, USA
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. Batic	M. Kovac
I. Maric	M. Mauher

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

Cohen, E. B. (pp 3)

FROM UGLY DUCKLING TO SWAN: RECONCEPTUALIZING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AS A FIELD OF THE DISCIPLINE INFORMING SCIENCE

Flournoy, N. (pp 13)

A BIASED COIN URN DESIGN FOR ESTIMATING A TARGET QUANTILE FROM A SEQUENCE OF BINARY RESPONSES: ASYMPTOTIC RESULTS

Hearne, L. B. (pp 19)

UNIVARIATE NON-PARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION USING RANDOM LINEAR TESSELLATIONS

Molfino, M. T. (pp 33)

CONTINUING TRAINING IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES THE PROJECT QUALIFICATION 2000

Olkin, I. (pp 37)

PROBABILITY MODELS FOR LIFETIME DATA

Vouk, M. A. (pp 39)

NETWORK-BASED EDUCATION

APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Fernandez Llamas, C., Diaz, P., Aedo, I., Diez-Hoyo, C. (pp 55)

TRANSLIB: MULTILINGUAL ACCESS TO LIBRARIES CATALOGUES

Lauc, D., Lauc, T., Boras, D., Ristov, S. (pp 61)

DEVELOPING TEXT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM USING ROBUST MORPHOLOGICAL PARSING

Mladineo, N., Knezic, S., Pavasovic, S. (pp 67)

THE CONCEPT OF GIS BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM IN FIRE SERVICE

Proszeky, G. (pp 73)

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS IN THE TRANSLATOR'S PRACTICE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS

Cakmakov, D., Radevski, V. (pp 81)

STRATEGIES FOR FEATURE SELECTION USING INDIVIDUAL FEATURE IMPORTANCE

Djordjevic, D., Mihajlov, D. (pp 87)

WEIGHTED VOTING OF MULTIPLE ALN CLASSIFIERS FOR OCR

Malekovic, M. (pp 93)

INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE

Ribaric, S., Dalbelo Basic, B., Tomac, D. (pp 101)

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION OF REASONING USING FUZZY AND FUZZY TIME PETRI NETS

Zdravkova, K. (pp 109)

LEARNING ARCHITECTURE IN AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS

BIOMETRICS

Georgiev, Tz., Ratkov, Al., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A. (pp 117)

MODELLING AND OPTIMISATION OF AMINO ACID PRODUCTION BASED ON MANURE

Grbac, I., Dalbelo Basic, B., Ivelic, Z. (pp 125)

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTH OF MASSIVE WOOD L-JOINTS

Jazbec, A., Simic, D., Pavlovic, M., Kujundzic, M., Malinar, M. (pp 131)

VARIATIONS IN MORTALITY IN MIDDLE DALMATIA, CROATIA

Piecha, J. (pp 137)

THE FOOT ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSTICS AND EXPERTISE

Simic, D., Jazbec, A., Pavlovic, M., Sega, K., Hrsak, J. (pp 143)

SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF AMBIENT NO₂ ON MORTALITY IN ZAGREB, CROATIA

COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Alonistioti, A., Koutsopoulou, M., Efthimiopoulos, G., Paschalis, A. (pp 151)

MAPPING OF SDL AND CORBA FEATURES FOR MODELLING SOFTWARE RADIO ASPECTS

Bertolissi, E., Preece, C. (pp 157)

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TRANSMISSION SPEED IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS

Glavinic, V., Motik, B. (pp 163)

AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND PROCESSING

Gusev, M., Misev, A., Popovski, G. (pp 169)

SIMULATION OF SUPERSCALAR PROCESSOR

Maurer, W. D. (pp 175)

REGISTER RELOCATION IN RISC MACHINES

Nagy, A., Nyul, L., Alexin, Z., Kuba, A. (pp 183)

THE SOFTWARE SYSTEM OF THE PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN SZEGED

Poles, D., Balogh, I., Budin, L. (pp 189)

TASK SYSTEMS WITH INPUT ERROR AND END-TO-END DEADLINES

Scholz, M., Sunde, J. (pp 197)

OPTIMIZATION OF GRADE OF SERVICE IN HIGH FREQUENCY NETWORKS

Steinmueller, B., Safarik, J. (pp 205)

INTRANET APPLICATION OF ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL

Sostaric, A., Gabor, M., Gygi, A. (pp 211)

PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN NETWORK SYSTEMS

Volner, R., Bores, P., Ticha, D., Ziak, R. (pp 217)

THE COMPUTER MODEL OF THE INTERACTIVE CATV NETWORK

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS

Dimitrova, A., Georgiev, Tz., Ivanova, V., Kristeva, J., Ratkov, Al. (pp 225)

DATA ANALYSIS OF ION EXCHANGE STEP OF L-LYSINE PURIFICATION PROCESS

Dudasne Nagy, M., Mate, E., Kari, B. (pp 231)

GENERATION OF NORMAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL PROFILE CURVES FOR EVALUATING MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION STUDIES

Dumicic, K., Marusic, Z. (pp 237)

THE SAMPLE STRATEGY FOR MULTIINDICATOR SURVEY IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION SECTORS FOR CROATIA IN 1996

Gligorova, L., Kustura, M. (pp 243)

EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED BY THE CONTINUING LABOUR FORCE SURVEY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Gunjaca, J., Satovic, Z., Kolak, I. (pp 247)

GENETIC DIVERSITY AMONG CROATIAN COMMON BEAN LANDRACES

Korze, D., Zazula, D., Potocnik, B. (pp 251)

CLOSED-FORM ESTIMATION OF MA COEFFICIENTS OF SUPERIMPOSED SIGNALS

Loncaric, S., Majcenic, Z. (pp 257)

MULTIRESOLUTION CT HEAD IMAGE ANALYSIS USING SIMULATED ANNEALING

Luzar Stiffler, V., Stiffler, C. (pp 263)

BEYOND SQL AND OLAP: A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR SMART STATISTICS IN THE FIELD OF DATA MINING

Morin, A.M. (pp 269)

THE USE OF DATA ANALYSIS METHODS FOR TEXT COMPARISONS

Poljak, J., Budin, L. (pp 275)

CHAOTIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND TEST, METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Hocenski, Z., Martinovic, G. (pp 283)

EVALUATION OF FAULT DETECTION AND FAULT RECOVERY OF MICROCONTROLLER DYAD BY FAULT INJECTION

Porwik, P. (pp 289)

LOGIC SYNTHESIS OF INCOMPLETELY SPECIFIED BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS BY MEANS OF GENETIC ALGORITHM

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES

Costa, J. P., Melo, P., Godinho, P., Dias, L. (pp 297)

THE DESIGN OF A GDSS FOR PROJECT ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION: THE AGAP SYSTEM

De Rossi, M., Ferri, F., Ricci, F. L. (pp 303)

ORGANIZATION OF THE INFORMATION IN ORDER TO SIMPLIFY THE QUERYING OF DATABASES

Fertalj, K., Mornar, V., Kalpic, D. (pp 311)

AN ALGORITHM TO GENERATE DATA FOR TESTING

Goczyla, K. (pp 317)

EXTENDIBLE PARTIAL-ORDER TREE: A DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FOR INDEXING ON MULTIVALUED ATTRIBUTES

Juric, R., Martin, N. (pp 323)

DBRE AND MIGRATION FROM RELATIONAL TO OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASES

Jukic, N., Tomic, S., Vrbsky, S. (pp 335)

BELIEF-CONSISTENCY IN MLS DATABASES THROUGH ACTIVE RULES

Lores Vidal, J., Vivancos Calvet, J., Goma Ayats, J. R., Serres Moliner, E., Sirera Aransay, X., Macarro Zapata, X. (pp 341)

APPLICATION OF MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY TO A COMPUTER-AIDED SYSTEM FOR DESIGN AND CALCULATION OF MODULS FOR INJECTION MOULDING OF THERMOPLASTICS

Osmanagic Bedenik, N., Varga, M. (pp 353)

INTEGRATION OF DATA WAREHOUSING INTO CONTROLLING

Trad, A. (pp 359)

THE TEAM DESIGN QUALITY CHECK COEFFICIENT (TDQCC)

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Bowden, F. D. J., Pearce, C. E. M. (pp 367)

A PICARD-TYPE APPROACH TO ANALYSING TRANSIENTS IN COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

Devcic, Z., Loncaric, S. (pp 371)

SVD BLOCK PROCESSING FOR NON-LINEAR IMAGE NOISE FILTERING

Gaborovic, S. (pp 377)

CONFLUENCE OF PARTIAL LAMBDA CALCULUS

Gluscevic, V., Pearce, C. E. M., Pecaric, J., Sunde, J. (pp 383)

BOUNDS FOR DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY MEASURES

Grzymkowski, R., Slota, D. (pp 389)

APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS OF HEAT CONDUCTION

Hebel, Z., Pavic, I., Delimar, M. (pp 399)

NEWTON-RAPHSON POWER FLOW - A NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT

Kasac, J., Stranjak, A. (pp 405)

THE CRITERIA OF QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

Korosec, D., Novak, U., Merletti, R. (pp 411)

INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL FOR FOURIER TRANSFORM DEMONSTRATION

Litiu, R., Kountanis, D. I. (pp 417)

VISIBILITY LINE IN A DIRECTION FOR A SET OF PARALLEL LINE SEGMENTS

Mihajlovic, Z., Goluban, A., Kovacic, D. (pp 425)

THE B-SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN VISUALIZATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS

Orman, G. V. (pp 433)

ON Z-TRANSFORM OF THE VECTOR OF STATE PROBABILITIES

Stefanovski, S. (pp 439)

AN EFFICIENCY SCHEME FOR RAY TRACING RECURSIVE OBJECTS DEFINED BY L-SYSTEMS

Vesel, A., Zerovnik, J. (pp 445)

SEARCHING THE LINEAR K-ARBORICITY OF CUBIC GRAPHS

Ziha, K. (pp 451)

ENTROPY OF A SUBSYSTEM OF EVENTS

Ziha, K. (pp 455)

MARGINAL SAMPLING IN PROBABILITY INTEGRATION

MODELLING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Bogdan, Z., Jakoplic, Z. (pp 463)

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN FURNACE WALLS

Bosilj Vuksic, V. (pp 471)

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING USING SIMULATION AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

Capkun, G., Davison, A. C. (pp 477)

A SIMPLE STOCHASTIC RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL

Costa, P., Esposito, A., Esposito, F., Noioso, M. (pp 483)

VISCONTE: A VISUAL CONTROL AND SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT

Cosic, K., Balogh, I., Bistrovic, S. (pp 489)

ANALYSIS OF DYNTACS AND MODSAF LOS ALGORITHMS

Duta-Capra, A., Sangeorzan, L., Nanu, D. E. (pp 495)

MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF THE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF ETHANE USING POWERSIM

Firak, M. (pp 501)

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION OF DISTRICT THERMAL POWER PLANT

Golub, M., Jakobovic, D. (pp 507)

A FEW IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHM

Horvat, M., Guid, N. (pp 513)

CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN USING B-SPLINES

Jakobovic, D., Golub, M. (pp 519)

ADAPTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM

Jelenkovic, L., Poljak, J. (pp 525)

MULTITHREADED SIMULATED ANNEALING

Korzinek, I., Sosteric, N. (pp 531)

NETWORKING OF THE DISTRIBUTED COMBAT SIMULATION PROTOTYPE

Kurtanjek, Z. (pp 537)

ANALYSIS OF NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTURES FOR MODELING MULTIPLICITY OF A CHEMICAL REACTOR

Nogo, G., Manger, R. (pp 543)

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A PARALLEL MAX-FLOW ALGORITHM

Pejic Bach, M. (pp 549)

LEARNING TO MANAGE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH

Ratkov, Al., Georgiev, Tz., Kristeva, J., Ivanova, V., Dimitrova, A. (pp 555)

IDENTIFICATION OF L-VALINE FED-BATCH FERMENTATION PROCESS

Slamic, M., Penzar, D., Sosteric, N., Jukic, J., Modric, A. (pp 563)

AN ARCHITECTURE FOR A COMBAT SIMULATION

Solcany, V., Safarik, J. (pp 571)

DETERMINING POSSIBLE SPEEDUP IN CONSERVATIVE PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

Topic, D., Kovacevic, D., Dumanic, S., Vulevic, Z. (pp 577)

SIMULATING CHAOTIC CIRCUITS IN EWB-PROGRAM

Uglesic, I., Maljkovic, Z., Kuterovac, LJ. (pp 583)

USAGE OF SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE FOR CALCULATION OF OVERVOLTAGES IN POWER PLANT

MULTIMEDIA

Bekic, Z., Filipcic, L., Milinovic, M. (pp 591)

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR COURSE SYSTEM IN INTERNET TRAINING

Cantegrit, B., Toulotte, J.-M. (pp 597)

VIRTUAL PRACTICAL WORKS FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS USING INTERACTIVE SIMULATION WITH DIGITAL VIDEO

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Begier, B. (pp 605)

TOWARDS SOFTWARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Futo, I. (pp 613)

A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PROLOG SYSTEM

Granic, A., Glavinic, V. (pp 619)

SOME THOUGHTS ON CLASSIFICATIONS OF VISUAL PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS

Majorinc, K. (pp 627)

ELLIPSE-CIRCLE DILEMMA AND INVERSE INHERITANCE