INTELLECT: a system for authoring, distributing, and presenting multimedia contents over the Internet

Design and implementation of the just-in-time retrieving policy for schedule-based distributed multimedia presentations

“…With the development of high-speed networking and computer technologies, multimedia information systems like the distributed multimedia presentation (Shih and Davis, 1997;Moreno and Mayer, 1999;Liew et al, 1999;Bertino et al, 2000;Palacharla et al, 1997;Carneiro et al, 1999) are becoming more accessible to a variety of audiences. The distributed multimedia presentation is concerning with viewing a presentation via the network.…”

“…Some or all the media objects in the presentation could be somewhere in the network instead of the local site. Issues for the distributed multimedia presentation include: the overall design of the system (Shih and Davis, 1997;Moreno and Mayer, 1999;Liew et al, 1999;Bertino et al, 2000), the scheduling (retrieving) of the objects and resource management under the network environment (Palacharla et al, 1997;Carneiro et al, 1999;Hwang and Prabhakaran, 2000), the mechanisms for dealing with the temporal relationship (synchronization) of objects in the presentation (Jeong et al, 1997;Cruz and Mahalley, 1999;Song et al, 1999;De Lima et al, 1999), the supporting of the user interactions (Bertino et al, 2000;Yoon and Berra, 1998;Jeng et al, 1999), etc.…”