We introduce a constraint-driven methodology for the automated assembly, organization and playout of presentations from multimedia databases. We use inclusion and exclusion constr...
Abstract. The automated generation of multimedia reports for timevarying scenes on the basis of visual data constitutes a challenging research goal with a high potential for many i...
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negoti...
Farhana H. Zulkernine, Patrick Martin, Chris Cradd...
Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
Hypermedia structured in terms of the higher-level intent of its author can be adapted to a wider variety of final presentations. Many multimedia systems encode such highlevel int...
Lloyd Rutledge, Brian Bailey, Jacco van Ossenbrugg...