In a growing number of complex heterogeneous embedded systems, the relevance of software components is rapidly increasing. Issues such as development time, flexibility, and reusability are, in fact, better addressed by software-based solutions. Due to the processing regularity of multimedia and DSP applications, statically scheduled devices such as VLIW processors are viable options over dynami...

Software engineering researchers have attempted to improve the software development process for over two decades. A primary thrust in this process lies in the arena of measurement. “You can’t control what you can’t measure” [5]. This research applies software metric techniques to the development of multimedia products. Problem areas such as education, instruction, training, and information syst...

Background: Healthy lifestyle affects the health of mother and fetus during pregnancy. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of group discussion and multimedia package education interventions on healthy lifestyle among pregnant women. Methods: In this semi-experimental study 151 pregnant women in the 16-28 weeks of pregnancy age who were referring comprehensive health centers in Baj...

Integrated environmental modeling (IEM) includes interdependent science-based components that comprise an appropriate software modeling system and are responsible for consuming and producing information as part of the system, but moving information from one component to another (i.e., interoperability) is the responsibility of the IEM software system. We describe and discuss the Framework for R...

The growing complexity of Web-based services in general, and multimedia services in particular, makes it necessary to apply engineering methods to their development. In particular, Multimedia Engineering may be considered as the field in Software Engineering which deals with the development of open, reusable and quality multimedia and Web-based software. In this paper we apply two of the curren...

In this paper, we have proposed a new method for eliminating repeated occurrences in multimedia search engines. We have built software that extracts information from multimedia databases which will compare these multimedia files and marks only one copy of repeated files. The developed software can work with any search engine and can also work in a routine manner to deal with any updates on the ...

Multimedia imposes quite a number of specific issues and requirements on software. While system support for multimedia has been seriously investigated for serveral years now, the software engineering community has not yet reached a deep understanding of the impacts of multimedia on their field. MMSD’96 brought together a representative spectrum of researchers investigating this issue. Four gene...