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Agent-based multimedia presentation and adaptation service

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In this paper, we aim to provide adaptive multimedia services especially video ones to end-users in an efficient and secure manner. Users moving outside the office should be able to maintain an office-like environment at their current locations. First, the agents within our proposed architecture negotiate the different communication and interaction factors autonomously and dynamically. Moreover, we needed to develop a user agent in addition to service and system agents that could negotiate the requirements and capabilities at run time to furnish best possible service results. Thus we designed and integrated a video indexing and key framing service within our overall agent-based architecture. We integrated this video indexing and content-based analysis service to adapt the video content according to run time conditions. We designed a video XML schema to validate the media content out of this multimedia service according to specific requirements and features, as we will describe later.

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  1. National Research Council of Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, M50, HPC group, K1A 0R6, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Mohamed Ahmed & Roger Impey

  2. School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 161 Louis-Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Hamid Harroud & Ahmed Karmouch

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Ahmed, M., Harroud, H., Impey, R. et al. Agent-based multimedia presentation and adaptation service. Multimed Tools Appl 34, 299–315 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-007-0113-z

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