Interactive Video Services through Workflow.


Elisa Bertino, Danilo Montesi, Alberto Trombetta: Interactive Video Services through Workflow CSIT 1999 : E/E

Abstract

This paper introduces an interactive video service and its architecture where several systems cooperate to manage the services of interactive video. Each system is pecialized according to the data it handles and the functionality it performs. A system can be a database (for billing purposes) or just a video server (to store the video data) lacking the typical features of a database or an information retrieval system to support indexing and querying of video data. Because quality of services is an important requirement for whole management system, a specific system is introduced in the architecture. Such system monitors the bandwidth of the network, the buffer size and the frame size and rate. The resulting architecture of interactive video system consists of several systems cooperating through an active rules based workflow system to integrate their functionalities while preserving autonomy, extensibility and data integrity where necessary.

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Ch. Freytag and V. Wolfengagen (Eds.): CSIT'99, Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies, January 18-22, 1999, Moscow, Russia. MEPhI Publishing 1999, ISBN 5-7262-0263-5

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