A Temporal Process Model for Web Multimedia Applications

In this paper, we report our experience in developing a temporal process for web multimedia applications. Multimedia is a general term for applications which make use of various information media, such as audio, video, animation, images and text in an integrated presentation. Systems which run such applications can be centralized or distributed. We identify the principal strengths and weaknesses of both multimedia application and process sensitive systems as software systems and workflow management systems. We make some proposals to improve web multimedia applications. The philosophy behind the development of this kind of application is that they are process sensitive systems. This means they should be built on top of a powerful process model enacted on commonly used infrastructure. The web was chosen because of its generalization, low-cost and easy to use principle. The paper presents the process model in the form of an extensible object oriented framework with special emphases on temporal operators for activity synchronization.