Automatic Generation of User-Centric Multimedia Communication Services

Multimedia communication services today are conceived, designed, and developed in isolation, following a stovepipe approach. This has resulted in a fragmented and incompatible set of technologies and products. Building new communication services requires a lengthy and costly development cycle, which severely limits the pace of innovation. In this paper, we address the fundamental problem of automating the development of multimedia communication services. We propose a new paradigm for creating such services through declarative specification and generation, rather than through traditional design and development. Further, the proposed paradigm pays special attention to how the end-user specifies his/her communication needs, an important requirement largely ignored in existing approaches.