Madeus: an authoring environment for interactive multimedia documents

Author

Jourdan, Muriel ; Layaida, Nabil ; Sabry-Ismail, Loay

Author_Institution

INRIA, Montbonnot, France

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

644

Lastpage

645

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609797

Filename

609797