Ginga-NCL: Declarative middleware for multimedia IPTV services

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 74-81

  Soares, Luiz Fernando Gomes ^a   Moreno, Marcio Ferreira ^a   De Salles Soares Neto, Carlos ^a   Moreno, Marcelo Ferreira ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE REUSE; CONTENT ADAPTATION; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DTV SYSTEMS; GINGA-NCL; GLUE LANGUAGES; IPTV SERVICES; MEDIA CONTENT; MEDIA OBJECTS; MULTIDEVICE; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; NESTED CONTEXT LANGUAGES; ON THE FLIES; TIME AND SPACE;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLEWARE; QUERY LANGUAGES; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; XML;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 77953090243     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2010.5473867     Document Type: Article

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