This special issue of the CLEI Electronic Journal consists of extended and revised versions of articles presented at the XXIX International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, which took place in Antofagasta, Chile, in November 2010. The conference received 100 submissions, from which the program committee selected 45 for presentation. Among the presented articles the conference chairs selected 12 papers, which were extended and revised for the CLEI Electronic Journal. Such selection was done based on the articles evaluation score and the recommendation of the conference sessions chairs. After two reviewing rounds seven articles were accepted to be published in this special issue.