—We claim that the renting of machine resources on clusters of servers introduces new systems challenges which are different from those hitherto encountered, either in multimedia...
Situated learning is known to be an effective didactic approach, yet, multimedia systems with built-in support for it are uncommon. We analyze the domain-independent requirements ...
The current model of time in multimedia frameworks poses particular problems when designing multimedia systems with timebased interaction. We propose to expand and extend an exist...
Traditional design and test of complex multimedia systems involves a large number of test vectors and is a difficult and time-consuming task. The simulation times are prohibitivel...
Paul R. Schumacher, Marco Mattavelli, Adrian Chiri...