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

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Assessment of Quality of Speech Transmitted over IP Networks....Pages 1-14 Improving Video Server Scalability with Virtual Video File System Concept....Pages 15-27 A Network-Driven Architecture for the Multicast Delivery of Layered Video and A Comparative Study....Pages 29-44 Building Dynamic User Interfaces of Virtual Reality Applications with X-VRML....Pages 45-59 Some Approaches to Solve a Web Replica Location Problem in MPLS Networks....Pages 61-72 An Exact Algorithm for Host Allocation, Capacity and Flow Assignment Problem in WAN....Pages 73-82 A Diffusion Approximation Model of Web Servers....Pages 83-92 Interface Model in Adaptive Web-based System....Pages 93-104 SRAMT-S: A Hybrid Sender And Receiver-Based Adaptation Scheme For TCP Friendly Multicast Transmission Using Simulcast Approach....Pages 105-122 A New Method of Predictive-substitutional Data Compression....Pages 123-134 Priority Forcing Scheme: A New Strategy for Getting Better than Best Effort Service in IP-based Network....Pages 135-149 Towards a New Societal Environment?....Pages 151-162 E-commerce and the Media — Influences on Security Risk Perceptions....Pages 163-173 Measuring Internet Diffusion in Italy....Pages 175-185 Mobile Society, Technology, and Culture....Pages 187-197 iMobile ME — A Lightweight Mobile Service Platform for Peer-to-Peer Mobile Computing....Pages 199-214 Wireless Access to the Internet....Pages 215-227 Implementation of Virtual Medical Devices in Internet and Wireless Cellular Networks....Pages 229-242 Supporting Software Process Tracking Through the Internet....Pages 243-254 Cooperative Tools for Remote Learning....Pages 255-272 Query Formulation and Evaluation for XML Databases....Pages 273-288 Entish....Pages 289-306 The Internet has a profound effect on computing and society. Up until now, research efforts have focused mostly on technical aspects of Internet development. This book focuses on both the technical aspects of Internet applications as well as economic and social aspects. Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact describes the latest research in several areas of Internet applications including: -Mobility; -Multimedia; -Quality of service; -Voice over IP; -Wireless access, and; -Internet societal impact. This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI 2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in October 2002 in Wroclaw, Poland. WITASI 2002 was organized by IFIP Working Group 6.4, Internet Applications Engineering