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Multimedia environments have an intrinsic need to satisfy the requirements of the different media and the ever changing user demands. For example, a zooming facility or freeze frame in a video display. The meeting of these demands is usually dealt with under contractual obligations for the provision of a Quality of Service (QoS) contract. QoS is usually achieved by the adequate allocation of resources (configuration) such as cpu, communication bandwidth, disk access, etc.
This paper addresses the management of change and its effect on resources and interactions between them. This is addressed by an object based framework for the definition and delivery of guarantees through the various viewpoints including user and system views and their implementations. This framework allows for dynamic configuration and results in a responsive environment to changing user demands.
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Symons, A., Merabti, M., Bamford, C. (1996). Dynamically Reconfigurable Distributed Multimedia Systems: An Object Based Framework. In: Murphy, J., Stone, B. (eds) OOIS’ 95. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1009-5_17
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