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DLNA - Digital Living Network Alliance

Telecommunications

DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) is an industry standard that allows to access your digital content through DLNA Certified^® devices.

For example, you can watch a movie that's currently stored on your DLNA NAS. Using your DLNA smartphone as a remote, simply locate your NAS drive, select the movie, then stream it to your DLNA TV.

UPnP - Universal Plug and Play

Telecommunications

UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology enables music and other digital entertainment content to be accessible from various devices in the home without regard for where the media is stored. Using UPnP devices the whole family can share in the fun together whether it's:

Playing Internet-based computer games
Viewing your best family photos via the TV
Watching home videos
Listening to favorite tunes throughout the house

UPnP Forum, formed in 1999, is an industry initiative that definse and publishes UPnP device control protocols to allow devices to connect seamlessly and to simplify network implementation in the home and corporate environments.

ALM - Application Lifecycle Management

Software

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the combined coordination of various application development activities such as requirements, modeling, development, test and integration.

FSM - Finite State Machine

Science & Technology

A Finite State Machine (FSM) is a model of behavior composed of a finite number of states and transitions between those states.

EMML - Enterprise Mashup Markup Language

Software

Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML) is an open, freely available language for the development, interoperability and compatibility of enterprise mashups. It is an XML language that provides features to connect to many different web services or web sites and mash responses into a new result.

DCI - Data Context Interaction

Software

DCI is Role-Based Paradigm for specifying collaborating objects. separates a program into different perspectives where each perspective focuses on certain system properties. Code in the Data perspective specifies how information is represented by stand-alone objects. Code in the Context perspective specifies runtime networks of interconnected objects as similar structures of interconnected roles. Code in the Interaction perspective specifies how the networked objects collaborate to achieve the system behavior.

See original detalis here.

CRUD - Create, Read, Update and Delete

Software

Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) are the four basic functions of persistent storage.

LHC - Large Hadron Collider

Science & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground.