The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user profile model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
Abstract. The original purpose of Web metadata was to protect endusers from possible harmful content and to simplify search and retrieval. However they can also be exploited in mor...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
An infrastructure for remote instrument access, data acquisition and data management is being developed for e-Research. The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) is bei...
Ian M. Atkinson, Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, ...
Ad-hoc networks are by definition created on demand, without any infrastructure. On the other hand, they are often considered as an extension of the range of Internet access poin...