Guest Editorial: Convergence and Advanced Technology

Convergence and advanced technologies spring forth as a result of lateral entry by firms in different markets, and today, there is a synergistic combination of traditional industries and state-of-the-art technologies, such as information technology. The main goal of this issue is to bring researchers from academia together with professionals from different industries to share algorithms, solutions, and architectures as well as their experiences. We expect this special issue to be viewed as a continuum of products and as the lateral entry of research from different technological perspectives on digital management. The effort diffuses technological competencies and values within existing technologies’ base information systems. The convergence process blurs traditional technological and sectorial boundaries and thus opens new avenues of technological innovation in ubiquitous technologies [1, 4, 6, 10, 15]. This issue challenges processing overhead in convergence and advanced technologies. The paper by Kim et al. [5] introduces an efficient mobility management scheme for convergence of mobile media multicast services in next-generation networks. The proposed scheme applies a method to quickly rejoin a relevant multicast stream by enabling the AIMSMM system to collect multicast group information through a multicast group information handler located in the multicast router. The paper by Oh et al. [2] presents the development of a one-source multi-use cross-platform based on zero coding. This method is to research and develop a native application–based development tool that can perfectly satisfy both onesource–multi-use and cross-platform, and secure stable hardware control and execution speed. The paper by Je-Ho Park [19] presents low-cost image indexing for a massive database. The proposed method is an identifier generation for indexing that is efficient and effective from the perspective of cost and indexing performance, in order to compose identifiers with high cardinality. The paper by Jo et al. [9] presents an access control system for secure extensible markup language (XML) telemedicine documents. This Multimed Tools Appl (2015) 74:2195–2200 DOI 10.1007/s11042-015-2517-5