Multimedia Software Engineering

by Chang, Shi-Kuo

• ISBN13: 9780792377368
• ISBN10: 0792377362
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Multimedia has two fundamental characteristics that can be expressed by the following formula: Multimedia = Multiple Media + Hypermedia. How can software engineering take advantage of these two characteristics? Will these two characteristics pose problems in multimedia systems design? These are some of the issues to be explored in this book. The first two chapters will be of interest to managers, software engineers, programmers, and people interested in gaining an overall understanding of multimedia software engineering. The next six chapters present multimedia software engineering according to the conceptual framework introduced in Chapter One. This is of particular use to practitioners, system developers, multimedia application designers, programmers, and people interested in prototyping multimedia applications. The next three chapters are more research-oriented and are mainly intended for researchers working on the specification, modeling, and analysis of distributed multimedia systems, but will also be relevant to scientists, researchers, and software engineers interested in the systems and theoretical aspects of multimedia software engineering. Multimedia Software Engineering can be used as a textbook in a graduate course on multimedia software engineering or in an undergraduate course on software design where the emphasis is on multimedia applications. It is especially suitable for a project-oriented course.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
A Framework for Multimedia Software Engineering	1	(10)
Perspectives in Multimedia Software Engineering	11	(18)
Syntax: Visual Languages	29	(6)
Syntax: Multimedia Languages	35	(16)
Semantics: The Active Index	51	(20)
Semantics: Teleaction Objects	71	(30)
Pragmatics: Tools for a Multimedia Development Environment	101	(16)
Pragmatics: Prototyping Multimedia Applications	117	(20)
Systems: The Design of Multimedia Languages	137	(10)
Systems: Distributed Multimedia System Design	147	(38)
Systems: The Specification of Multimedia Applications	185	(38)
Exercises and Project Suggestions	223	(6)
References	229	(8)
Index	237