Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact

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.