A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet,
clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global …

XML is a widely used as message serialization format in web-based open and
heterogeneous systems because of its flexible data model. Internet-of-Things (IoT), or …

In environments with limited network bandwidth or resource-constrained computing devices
the high amount of protocol overhead caused by SOAP is disadvantageous. Therefore …

XML is currently being used as the message syntax for Web services. To enable small
mobile devices to use Web services, this XML use must not be too resource-consuming. Due …

Enterprise applications support business activities in companies, so that they can manage
complexity and be more effective. The service oriented architecture (SOA) concepts …

The presented work proposes a model driven development approach employing flexible
code generation strategies to overcome the technological gap between networked …

While RSS feeds increase in popularity as a mean to stay up to date with the most recent
changes on a Web site, its XML representation is causing bandwidth related problems …

XML-based metadata for digital media is becoming increasingly important, as a
consequence also calling for efficient encoding and compression schemes for the storage …

Several recent standards address virtual containers for rich multimedia content: collections
of media with metadata describing the relationships between them and providing an …

Nowadays, 3D graphics have established their presence on the web-alongside audio and
video. In fact, 3D scenes are often used in conjunction with audio and video, to create virtual …