Appendix A: Abbreviations and Acronyms
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| 2D: | Two dimensional |
| 2G: | Second-generation wireless networks |
| 3D: | Three dimensional |
| 3G: | Third-generation wireless networks |
| AAC: | Advanced audio coding |
| ACTS: | Advanced communications technology and services |
| ADMITS: | Adaptation in distributed multimedia information technology systems |
| ADSL: | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| AIFF: | Audio interchange file format |
| AMR: | Adaptive multirate |
| API: | Application program(ming) interface |
| ARQ: | Automatic repeat request |
| ASX: | Active streaming XML format |
| ATM: | Asynchronous transfer mode |
| AU: | Sun audio file format |
| AV: | Audiovisual |
| AVC: | Advanced video coding |
| AVI: | Audio video interlaced |
| BFILE: | Binary FILE |
| BIFS: | Binary format for scene description |
| BiM: | Binary format for MPEG-7 |
| BLOB: | Binary large object |
| BR: | Bounding region |
| BSD: | Bitstream syntax description |
| CBIR: | Content-based image retrieval |
| CBR: | Content-based retrieval |
| CD-ROM: | Compact disk—read only memory |
| CORBA: | Common object request broker architecture |
| CODAC: | Modeling and querying content description and quality adaptation capabilities of audiovisual data |
| CONNEG: | Protocol-independent content negotiation protocol |
| CC/PP: | Composite capabilities/preferences profile |
| CS : | Classification Schema |
| C-S: | Client-server system |
| CSD: | Color structure descriptor |
| CTI: | Compression Technologies, Inc. |
| D: | Descriptor |
| DB: | Database |
| DBMS: | Database management system |
| DCT: | Discrete cosine transform |
| DDL: | Description definition language |
| DI: | Digital item |
| DIA: | Digital item adaptation |
| DID: | Digital item declaration |
| DIDL: | Digital item declaration language |
| DII: | Digital item identification |
| DMIF: | Delivery multimedia integration framework |
| DP: | Data-partioning |
| DRM: | Digital rights management |
| DS: | Description scheme |
| DSS: | Digital subscriber service |
| DTD: | Document type definition |
| DVB: | Digital video broadcasting |
| DVB-MHPDVB: | DVB-Multimedia Home Platform |
| DVD: | Digital video disk |
| EDF: | Early deadline first |
| ER: | Entity-Relationship model |
| FEC: | Forward error correction |
| gBSD: | Generic bitstream syntax description |
| GC-tree: | Grid Cell-tree |
| GMT: | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GoF: | Group of frames |
| GoP: | Group of pictures |
| GPRS: | General packet radio service |
| GSM: | Global system for mobile communications |
| GSS: | Group sweeping scheduling |
| HDTV: | High-definition television |
| HMMD: | Hue-Max-Min-Diff |
| HSV: | Hue saturation value |
| HTML: | Hyper text markup language |
| ICRA: | Internet Content Rating Association |
| IEC: | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IETF: | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IEEE: | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| I/O: | Input/output |
| IP: | Internet protocol |
| IPA: | Intelligent physical agents |
| IPMP: | Intellectual property management and protection |
| IR: | Information retrieval |
| IS: | International standard |
| ISDN: | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO: | International Organization for Standardization |
| IST: | Information Society Technologies |
| ITU: | International Telecommunications Union |
| ITU-R: | ITU-Radiocommunication cector |
| ITU-T: | ITU-Telecommunications standardization sector |
| JDBC: | Java database connectivity |
| JMF: | Java Media Framework |
| JPEG: | Photographic Experts Group |
| JVT: | Joint Video Team |
| LAN: | Local Area Network |
| LCN-R: | Least normalized cost replacement |
| LFU: | Least frequently used |
| LPC: | Local polar coordinate-file |
| LRU: | Least recently used |
| M3U: | MP3 URL |
| Mbs: | Mega bits per second |
| MDS: | Multimedia description schemes |
| MHMM: | Multiresolution hidden Markov models |
| MMDBMS: | Multimedia Database Management System |
| MPEG: | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| NIST: | U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NFU: | Not frequently used |
| NN: | Nearest neighbor |
| ODBC: | Open database connectivity |
| OODBMS: | Object-oriented database management system |
| ORDBMS: | Object-relational database management system |
| PC: | Personal computer |
| PDA: | Personal digital assistant |
| PSNR: | Peak signal-to-noise ratio |
| QBH : | Query by humming |
| QBIC: | Query by image content |
| QCIF: | Quarter common intermediate format |
| QoS: | Quality of services |
| RDD: | Rights data dictionary |
| RDF: | Resource description framework |
| REL: | Rights expression language |
| RGB: | Red, green, and blue |
| RSVP: | Resource reservation protocol |
| RTCP: | Real-time control protocol |
| RTP: | Real-time transport protocol |
| RTSP: | Real-time streaming protocol |
| SCD : | Scalable color descriptor |
| SIP: | Section initiation protocol |
| SMIL: | Synchronized multimedia integration language |
| SMPTE: | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SMS: | Short message service |
| SNR: | Signal to noise ratio |
| SP: | Space partitioning |
| SPIO: | Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft e.V. |
| SQL: | Structured query language |
| SQL/MM: | SQL multimedia |
| STB: | Set top box |
| TETRA: | Terrestrial trunked radio |
| ToC: | Table of contents |
| TCP: | Transmission control protocol |
| TREC: | Text retrieval conferences |
| TTS: | Text-to-speech |
| TV: | Television |
| TZ: | Time zone |
| UA: | User agents |
| UAProf: | User agent profile |
| UDP: | User datagram protocol |
| UMA: | Universal multimedia access |
| UML: | Unified Modelling Language |
| UMTS: | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| URI: | Uniform resource identifier |
| URL: | Uniform resource locator |
| URN: | Uniform resource name |
| UTF: | Unicode transformation format |
| VA: | Vector approximation file |
| VBI: | Vertical blanking interval |
| VCEG: | Video Coding Experts Group |
| VCR: | Video cassette recorder |
| VDSL: | Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| VO: | Video object |
| VoD: | Video on demand |
| VoIP: | Voice over IP |
| WAP: | Wireless application protocol |
| WAV: | Windows wave file format |
| W3C: | World Wide Web Consortium |
| XDSL: | x Digital Subscriber Line (of any type) |
| XML: | Extensible markup language |
| XPATH: | XML path language |
| XSL: | Extensible stylesheet language |
| XSLT: | Extensible stylesheet language transformations |
| XSU: | XML SQL utility |
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