An integrated environment for the presentation of consistent SMIL 2.0 documents

• Authors: P. N. M. Sampaio;C. Lohr;J. P. Courtiat
• Venue: DocEng '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Document engineering
• Year: 2001

The utilization of Interactive Multimedia Documents (IMDs) has been largely addressed in several fields such as education, medicine, etc. since these documents can be distributed and accessed over the World-Wide-Web. In this context, the W3C standard Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) has been proposed for the presentation of IMD's over the Web. However, the flexibility of the temporal model of SMIL 2.0 allows the author to describe temporal synchronization relationships that potentially can not be resolved during the presentation of the document, known as temporal inconsistencies. For this reason, an approach that enables to detect and correct these inconsistencies is needed.This paper presents a formal approach for the verification, scheduling and presentation of consistent SMIL 2.0 documents based on the RT-LOTOS formal description technique. Thus, the consistency analysis of SMIL 2.0 documents is presented and some solutions are proposed in order to deal with potential state space explosion problems. Further on, some contributions are also presented concerning the scheduling and presentation of SMIL 2.0 documents based on a simple scheduling graph, called a Time Labeled Automata (TLA), derived automatically from the document formal specification. Finally, a global Java-based architecture for the implementation of a player of consistent SMIL 2.0 documents is presented.