Multimedia programming: objects, environments and frameworks
Multimedia programming: objects, environments and frameworks
Multimedia: computing, communications and applications
Multimedia: computing, communications and applications
Cooperative Computer-Aided Authoring and Learning: A Systems Approach
Cooperative Computer-Aided Authoring and Learning: A Systems Approach
Supporting Continuous Media in Open Distributed Systems Architectures
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Modeling and design of complex cooperative software
ICECCS '95 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Multimedia and multi-stream synchronization
Distributed multimedia databases
A Jini framework for distributed service flexibility
EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
Communication support for distributed multimedia components
EURO-PDP'00 Proceedings of the 8th Euromicro conference on Parallel and distributed processing
The numerical solution of a birth-death process arising in multimedia synchronization
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
A paired queueing system arising in multimedia synchronization
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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The development of distributed multimedia applications is supported by an increasing number of services. While such services pave the way toward sophisticated multimedia support even in distributed systems, using them still makes the task of developers quite tedious. This is because several inconsistent services have to be interfaced in order to reflect different aspects. As a way to alleviate this problem, we make the case for an encompassing framework in which all services would be offered under a unifying paradigm. First we give an overview of existing multimedia services with a focus on distribution, extracting the requirements imposed on multimedia extensions to general frameworks as a set of so-called abstractions. Known development environments for distributed applications are obvious candidates for such encompassing frameworks. We review these based on four popular paradigms: client-server/remote procedure call, object-orientation, hypermedia, and open documents. We also investigate possible multimedia extensions and discuss the "expressive power" of the paradigms. In conclusion, we propose steps towards an encompassing framework based on a hybrid object/hypermedia paradigm. Readers may contact Mühlhäuser at the University of Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria, e-mail: max@tk.uni-linz.ac.at