@conference {2835,
	title = {A Framework for a Distributed Information Service Using Hypermedia/Multimedia Pre-Orchestrated Scenarios},
	booktitle = {10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems-Special Session on Communication and Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA},
	year = {1998},
	month = {28 - 31 October},
	pages = { 226 - 229},
	abstract = {Real time delivery of multimedia objects based on preorchestrated
scenarios, seems to have several difficulties
due to presentation deadlines that should be satisfied, and
network{\textquoteright}s unpredictable behavior which may lead to synchronization
anomalies among related media streams. Beyond
these, a structural model that represents such scenarios
is required. In this paper, we present a general framework
that addresses the above mentioned issues, and we
attempt to describe a unified approach for delivering hypermedia/
multimedia objects over network connections
preserving their timing constraints. We mainly concentrate
on the study and development of a markup language that
models the presentational structure of a multimedia object
and provides primitives that assure playout synchronization
of the different media streams that compose these
hypermedia objects. Methods for keeping a constant quality
level of presentation in times of network load are discussed.},
	author = {Christos Bouras and Vaggelis Kapoulas and D Moiras and V Ouzounis}
}
