Title: Improving multimedia as a service (MaaS) approach for dynamic multimedia content integration

Authors: Fatma Zohra Lebib; Hakima Mellah; Valérie Monfort

Addresses: Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers 16030, Algeria ' Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers 16030, Algeria ' SOIE LI3, ISG Tunis, 41, Rue de la Liberté, Cité Bouchoucha 2000, Le Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia; Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Abstract: Multimedia content is derived from various autonomous, distributed and heterogeneous content sources. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is seen as a general answer to data integration problems. In this research work, we extend previous research works based on a model called Multimedia as a Service (MaaS); through which multimedia content providers expose their content. We propose now a method to automatically discover and invoke relevant MaaSs services, which enables dynamic and transparent multimedia content integration according to user's preferences and device capabilities. For that, we propose to enhance the semantics in the MaaSs services description using domain ontology and use the standard Composite Capabilities/Preferences Profile (CC/PP) of W3C to manage the user profile.

Keywords: domain ontology; multimedia content integration; web services; SOA; service oriented architecture; CC/PP; multimedia as a service; MaaS; semantics; user profiles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2013.057765

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2013 Vol.8 No.3, pp.226 - 235

Received: 13 Feb 2013
Accepted: 26 Jun 2013

Published online: 14 Oct 2014 *

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