This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country. Topics in this series include:The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer ScienceEducation for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital ResourcesMobile and Wireless Communication NetworksAd-Hoc NetworkingNetwork Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and MobilityThe Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and BeyondHistory of Computing and Education Biologically Inspired Cooperative ComputingArtificial Intelligence in Theory and PracticeApplications in Artificial IntelligenceAdvanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of SoftwareFor a complete list of the more than 300 titles in the IFIP Series, visit springer.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit ifip.org.

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.Topics in this series include: The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks Ad-Hoc Networking Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond History of Computing and Education Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Applications in Artificial Intelligence Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

A Survey on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- HIT: A Human-Inspired Trust Model.- Privacy and Location-Aware Service Discovery for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems.- An Adaptive Approach to Service Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks.- Performances of geographical routing protocols combined with a position estimation process in wireless heterogenous networks.- Event-Driven Field Estimation for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Exploiting Web Technologies to Build Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks.- Energy Efficiency Maximization for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Simple and Fair Proposal to Improve the Performance of the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Coordination Function.- A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Middleware Architectures Based on Computational Reflection and Aspect Oriented Programming to Support Mobile Computing Applications.- ISPCell: An Interactive Image-Based Streaming Protocol for Wireless Cellular Networks.- The Generic Context Sharing Protocol GCSP.- ASMA: Towards Adaptive Secured Multipath in MANETs.- Wireless Ad Hoc Networks on Underserved Communities: An Efficient Solution for Interactive Digital TV.- Understanding the Role of Mobile Ad hoc Networks in Non-traditional Contexts.- A Time-based Admission Control Mechanism for IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks.- Evaluation and Improvement of Multicast Service in 802.11b.

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.Topics in this series include:The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer ScienceEducation for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital ResourcesMobile and Wireless Communication NetworksAd-Hoc NetworkingNetwork Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and MobilityThe Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and BeyondHistory of Computing and EducationBiologically Inspired Cooperative ComputingArtificial Intelligence in Theory and PracticeApplications in Artificial IntelligenceAdvanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of SoftwareFor a complete list of the more than 300 titles in the IFIP Series, visit springer.com.For more information about IFIP, please visit ifip.org.