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The concept of "offices without paper" originated during the 1980s. The primary idea behind this notion was that the application of computers and computer networking would decrease the amount of paper used in office work. Today, this same concept is understood as the computerization of all office work. In a similar vein "universities without paper" represents the promotion and employment of information and communication technology (ICT) in the overall scheme of activities in post-secondary institutions. ICT influences all aspects of human life, which includes both education and post-secondary institutions. It makes it possible for any type of information to be accessible to anyone, a condition that necessitates changes in methods of learning, choice and presentation of curriculum, ways of learning, etc. The task of the teacher is for them to adapt their teaching to the changes brought about by ICT. The objective of this article is to illustrate some of the aspects of employing ICT in the process of post-secondary education, which leads to the creation of "universities without paper". Consequently, the article deals with the influence of ICT on the efficiency of post-secondary institutions in the Republic of Croatia (RC) from the aspect of the demands placed before them by the information society.

In the paper we present some results of the project in Croatian speech data collection and speech recognition of Croatian weather forecasts. In the paper we describe the procedures we have performed in order to obtain a domain specific speech database from broadcast news of national programmes. The speech signal acquisition, transcription and segmentation process is described. We present the database structure and give some database statistics. Preliminary results of Croatian speech recognition experiments using context-independent and context-dependent acoustic models are presented.

This paper summarizes our efforts in implementing a working multi-level secure database prototype. We have chosen Belief-Consistent Multilevel Secure Relational Data Model (BCMLS) as a basis for our prototype because of its comprehensive semantics for interpreting all stored information. While semantically superior to other models, this model has not been implemented as a working system before. Our prototype, which was created on an Informix database server with a PHP web client, enables insertion, deletion and update of multi-level data while addressing the underlying model complexities through a number of original solutions.

The paper presents a grammatical approach to problem solving. It supports for-mal software, specification using attribute grammars, from, which, a rapid prototype can be generated as well the incremental, software development. Domain concepts and relationships among them. have to be identified from a problem statement and represented as a context-free grammar. The obtained context-free grammar describes the syntax of a dowain-specific language whose semantics is the same as the functionality of the system under implementation. The semantics of this language is then described using attribute grammars from which a compiler is automatically generated. The execution of a particular programme written in a domain-specific language corresponds to the execution of a prototype of a system on a particular use-case. GRICES -MCTES

In this paper a genetic algorithm for solving timetable scheduling problem is described. The algorithm was tested on small and large instances of the problem. Algorithm performance was significantly enhanced with modification of basic genetic operators. Intelligent operators restrain the creation of new conflicts in the individual and improve overall algorithm’ s behavior.

In this paper we are identifying problems in the complex Web application implementations. In more details we are addressing problem of content management and specific components of such system. We are also presenting our implementation of Web Content Management System (WCMS), which is based on relational database and XML technologies. It also uses some rather new concepts and technologies like XForms and Native XML database.

Heterogeneity of computer environment allows execution of large diverse applications, but it also simultaneously aggravates mapping. Our paper presents a combined multi-criterial mapping based on the MEVSP model. Model parameters originate from the level of application, platform, mapping and user. The most suitable prediction methods are long-term performance prediction, short-term prediction of threshold violations and short-term predictions of categorical data. Heterogeneity level can be expressed by single or stochastic values and by consistency level. The application of the MEVSP model and prediction procedures can improve the application execution, as shown for in a simplified environment.

Data warehouse systems have become a basic technological infrastructure in management decision making. Nevertheless, the overall utility of data warehouses remains unmeasured in most practical cases. As a consequence of this, IT-managers do not possess appropriate means to evaluate warehouse benefits in order to decide about investments in warehousing technology. This paper develops a controlling instrument for data warehouse systems based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach. On the basis of the technological aspects of data warehouse systems, the BSC perspectives are developed and populated with relevant objectives and measures for datawarehouse success. These perspectives are integrated into a consistent data warehouse scorecard. Finally, this instrument provides a holistic approach to drive the performance of data warehouse systems.

The paper presents a mathematical model addressing the problem of cargo transport by container ship on the selected route, where, certain number of containers of various masses and types are chosen out of total number of containers available in loading port in order to achieve maximum transport profitability, provided maximum payload and transport capacity of container ship. Since the profitability is an index of operation efficiency expressed as a fraction, respective mathematical model can be solved using linear fractional programming. The model was tested on real-life example of feeder ship "Lipa" owned by "Lošinjska plovidba", Rijeka, operating on route Rijeka-Gioia Tauro.