Design of an intelligent distributed multimedia presentation system using temporal algebra and SMIL

We have developed an intelligent multimedia presentation system that supports the presence of multiple distributed multimedia objects, as well as human-computer interaction. Several computation algorithms and operation tables, which include a set of complete temporal logic, are proposed. Using the authoring environment, authors can describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, specify the layout of the presentation on a screen, and associate hyperlinks with media objects over the Internet. The presentation system generates SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) documents automatically after designing by an author. A SMIL player can be implemented to present other SMIL documents. The player can also analyze the SMIL presentation contents, and record grouping objects, time, linking, structure, and reasoning results.