Title :
Madeus: an authoring environment for interactive multimedia documents
Author :
Jourdan, Muriel ; Layaida, Nabil ; Sabry-Ismail, Loay
Author_Institution :
INRIA, Montbonnot, France
Abstract :
We present Madeus, an authoring environment for interactive multimedia documents. Madeus´s aim can be summed up in the following statement: high temporal expressivity must not be reached to the detriment of a user-friendly interface editing approach. We provide the author with a declarative and hierarchical specification language based on an extension of Allen´s (1983) algebra. Static temporal checking and dynamic scheduling are based on an extension of temporal constraint networks
Keywords :
algebraic specification; authoring systems; constraint handling; interactive systems; multimedia computing; scheduling; specification languages; temporal logic; user interfaces; Allen´s algebra; Madeus; authoring environment; declarative hierarchical specification language; dynamic scheduling; interactive multimedia documents; static temporal checking; temporal constraint networks; temporal expressivity; user-friendly interface editing approach; Algebra; Dynamic scheduling; Multimedia databases; Network servers; Network synthesis; Process design; Specification languages; Text analysis; Tree data structures; Vents;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5530-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1997.609797
