As the shift towards the next generation of services runs its course, the emphasis within accounting for such services has moved towards robust and flexible components. An accounting architecture with the ability to scale, based on the foundation of a solid core of rating components, incorporating transaction management, object pooling and queuing is presented. Using the workbook approach to algorithm modelling is a logical option that allows for the decoupling of the algorithm from the architecture of the rating component. Decoupling the algorithm, allows for the design of core functionality that will rate for any service based on the concept of "pluggable" algorithms for each respective service.
Abstract. The VidShare project develops a management platform for Peer-toPeer multimedia asset distribution across heterogeneous access networks, fixed and mobile, with Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP). A key objective is to build an architecture that is interoperable with different content management and IPMP solutions. The project utilises MPEG REL as a rights expression language and works with the evolving MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework. The platform supports a number of business models including rights based personal multimedia sharing, distributed multimedia management for corporations, and the retailing of video content including the super distribution of content.
Abstract-Pervasive mobile communication is set to be greatly enhanced by the development and deployment of miniature mobile base stations, suitable for workplace or home. These base stations, known as Femtocells and Picocells, connect to traditional broadband connections, to offer greatly improved 3G communications to mobile handsets. Developing an architecture that allows for targeted applications to be developed for end users of these enhanced mobile networks is of great importance. Examining how contextual data, extracted from these mobile networks, can be used to make inference and provide benefit to end users is both a technical and sophisticated challenge to be discussed in this paper.
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