MARCH: A distributed content adaptation architecture

An Extensible and Scalable Content Adaptation Pipeline Architecture to Support Heterogeneous Clients

The importance of middleware and content adaptation has previously been demonstrated for pervasive use of Web-based applications. In this paper we propose a modular, extensible, and scalable middleware component called the Content Adaptation Pipeline that performs content adaptation on arbitrarily complex data types not limited to text and graphic images. Furthermore, the architecture can be us...

A MPEG-Based Architecture for Generic Distributed Multimedia Scenarios

This paper presents a standards-based architecture for a complex and generic distributed multimedia scenario, which combines content search and retrieval, DRM, and context-based content adaptation together. It is an innovative and totally generic approach trying to narrow the semantic-gap by integrating a fl exible language for multimedia search based on MPEG Query Format (MPQF) standard with t...

An Adaptive Architecture for Presenting Interactive Media Onto Distributed Interfaces

This paper introduces an adaptive architecture for presenting interactive timed media onto distributed networked devices. The architecture is put into the test in a storytelling application for children. The interactive story is documented in StoryML, an XML-based language, and presented to multiple interface devices organized in an agent-based architecture. This allows the separation of the co...

Adaptation as a Design Method in Architecture, Case Study: a House at Martha’s Vineyard

Efficient Execution of Service Composition for Content Adaptation in Pervasive Computing

Multimedia content adaptation has been proved to be an effective mechanism to mitigate the problem of devices and networks heterogeneity and constraints in pervasive computing environments. Moreover, it enables to deliver data taking into consideration the user’s preferences and the context of his/her environment. In this paper, we present an algorithm for service composition and protocols for ...