Multimedia content is becoming increasingly important in many areas not only for pure entertainment but also for commercial or educational purposes like, e.g., distance learning or online training. In parallel, the rapid evolution in the hardware sector brought up various new (mobile) end user devices like pocket PCs or mobile phones that are capable of displaying such content. Due to the diffe...

Generally speaking, Electronic Book can be defined as a multimedia software product synthesizing multimedia such as text, voice, audio effect, image, animation and video into a scenario where interaction can be made with the readers during the acting process. An e-book is composed of 3 parts: (1)programming design; (2)script design; (3)art and audio effect design. Producing an e-book is quite l...

Availability of precise, yet usable modeling languages is essential to the construction of multimedia systems based on software engineering principles and methods. Although several languages have been proposed for the specification of isolated multimedia system aspects, there not yet exists an integrated modeling language that adequately supports multimedia software development in practice. We ...

Due to recent advances in network and computing facilities, use of the Internet is becoming popular and promising in various areas such as scientific collaboration, information distribution and business processing. The need for a collaborative programming environment on the Internet is a natural extension to provide a cyber workspace for distributed software engineering and distance education, ...

We introduce a novel approach to implement multimedia rendering platforms, using reconfigurable-oriented hardware/software co-design. Disadvantages of current platforms include a very short obsolescence cycle, communication and computational performance limitations, large sizes of software components, and architectures not prepared to cope with future multimedia requirements. To overcome these,...

The use of distributed software and hardware architectures is widespread and accelerating. In order to utilize a distributed architecture fully, software engineers need to develop cooperating software modules running on different machines. One well-known approach to constructing distributed applications is through the use of remote procedure calls (RPC’s). The RPC model is based on the socalled...

SO, WON. Software Thread Integration for Converting TLP to ILP on VLIW/EPIC Architectures. (Under the direction of Alexander G. Dean.) Multimedia applications are pervasive in modern systems. They generally require a significantly higher level of performance than previous workloads of embedded systems. They have driven digital signal processor makers to adopt high-performance architectures like...