Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multimedia Applications

Arndt, Timothy; Chang, Shi-Kuo; Guercio, Angela

doi:10.1142/s0218194000000250

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…TAO is based on the Teleaction Object paradigm [ 12]. The language has gone through evolutions improving the expressivity [5,6,10,11,13], and ability to be transformed into other languages as HTML [14].…”

Section: Multimedia Software Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

An XML-based approach to multimedia software engineering for distance learning

Arndt

Chang

Guercio

et al. 2002

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE) is a new frontier for both Software Engineering (SE) and Visual Languages (VL). In fact multimedia software engineering can be considered as the discipline for systematic specification, design, substitution and verification of visual patterns. Visual Languages contribute to MSE such concepts as: Visual notation for software specification, design and verification flow charts, ER diagrams, Petri Nets, UML visualization, visual programming languages etc. Multimedia Software Engineering and Software Engineering are like two sides of the same coin. On the one hand we can apply software engineering principles to the design of multimedia systems. On the other hand we can apply multimedia technologies to the software engineering practice. In this paper we concentrate on the first of these possibilities. One of the promising application areas for Multimedia Software Engineering is Distance Learning. One aim of this paper is to demonstrate how it is possible to design and to implement complex multimedia software systems for Distance Learning using a Teleaction Object transformer based on XML technology applying a Component-Based Multimedia Software Engineering approach. The paper shows a complete process of dataflow transformation that represents TAO in different ways (text, TAOML, etc.) and at different levels of abstraction. A component-based tool architecture is also discussed. The use of an XML-based approach in the Distance Learning field has other advantages as well. It facilitates reuse of the teaching resources by using metadata. Standards for representing multimedia distance learning materials are currently evolving. Such standards are necessary in order to allow a representation which is independent of hardware and software platforms so that this material can be examined, for example, in a web browser or so that it may be reused.

show abstract