Distributed Software Architectures for Multimedia Systems




Adel S. Elmaghraby

ABSTRACT

Software architectures for the design of distributed multimedia
systems are of importance for the efficiency and scalability of such
systems. Special considerations are needed with incorporation of
intelligent agents and for access of multimedia databases. The
architectures discussed in this presentation are general and can be
used for distributed agent-based system design and can utilize
client-server or remote-method invocation through a WWW interface with
access to a multimedia databases. An intelligent agent-based
Video-on-demand (VOD) architecture is presented in addition to a tour
planner using the World Wide Web (WWW) which is discussed in the
context of museum tour planning. Prototype implementations for the
Intelligent Agent Tour Planner have been implemented using Java.





Adel S. Elmaghraby (Ph.D. 1982, University of Wisconsin - Madison), is
a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of
the Multimedia Research Lab at the University of Louisville. He has
also held appointments at the Software Engineering Institute -
Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
research and consulting spans the areas of Intelligent Multimedia
Systems, Digital Libraries, Neural Networks, PDCS, Visualization, and
Simulation. He is a well-published author, a public speaker, member of
editorial boards, and technical reviewer. He has been recognized by
IEEE-CS, SCS, and ISCA and by other professional organizations for his
achievements including a Golden Membership Award by the IEEE Computer
Society.