Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact

IFIP TC6 / WG6.4 Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact (WITASI 2002) October 10-11, 2002, Wroclaw, Poland
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-4757-5574-9
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

The 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI 2002), held in Wroclaw, Poland, October 10-11, 2002, presents different research aspects of the Internet, both technical and societal. The workshop aims at getting together scientists and practitioners from different research areas to work together on Internet development and reflect on Internet consequences to the economy and society. The papers presented in these proceedings describe state-of-the-art research in such areas of Internet applications as languages, mobility, multimedia, quality of service, voice over IP, and wireless access. A total of 40 papers were submitted to WITASI 2002 out of which 18 papers were selected for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the proceedings. The workshop also includes 4 invited papers. WIT ASI 2002 was sponsored by IFIP -the International Federation for Information Processing. It was organized by Working Group WG 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering of the Technical Committee TC 6 on Communication Systems. Locally, WITASI 2002 was organized by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iyengar, Arun

Cellary, Wojciech

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Session: Multimedia.- Assessment of Quality of Speech Transmitted over IP Networks.- Improving Video Server Scalability with Virtual Video File System Concept.- A Network-Driven Architecture for the Multicast Delivery of Layered Video and a Comparative Study.- Building Dynamic User Interfaces of Virtual Reality Applications with X-VRML.- Session: Analysis and Modeling.- Some Approaches to Solve a Web Replica Location Problem in MPLS Networks.- An Exact Algorithm for Host Allocation, Capacity and Flow Assignment Problem in WAN.- A Diffusion Approximation Model of Web Servers.- Interface Model in Adaptive Web-based System.- Session: Quality of Service.- SRAMT-S: A Hybrid Sender and Receiver-Based Adaptation Scheme for TCP Friendly Multicast Transmission Using Simulcast Approach.- A New Method of Predictive-substitutional Data Compression.- Priority Forcing Scheme: A New Strategy for Getting Better than Best Effort Service in IP-based Network.- Session: Internet Societal Impact.- Towards a New Societal Environment? Cultural Impact of the Internet Technology (invited paper).- E-commerce and the Media — Influences on Security Risk Perceptions.- Measuring Internet Diffusion in Italy.- Session: Mobility.- Mobile Society, Technology, and Culture (invited paper).- iMobile ME — A Lightweight Mobile Service Platform for Peer-to-Peer Mobile Computing (invited paper).- Wireless Access to the Internet.- Implementation of Virtual Medical Devices in Internet and Wireless Cellular Networks.- Session: Applications and Languages.- Supporting Software Process Tracking Through the Internet (invited paper).- Cooperative Tools for Remote Learning.- Query Formulation and Evaluation of XML Databases.- Entish: A Simple Language for Web Service Description and Composition.