PLAYOUT - A Hierarchical Layout System

Distributed Data Layout, Scheduling and Playout Control in a Large Scale Multimedia Storage Server

Eecient Data Layout, Scheduling and Playout Control in Mars

Large scale on-demand multimedia servers, that can provide independent and interactive access to a vast amount of multimedia information to a large number of concurrent clients, will be required for a wide spread deployment of exciting multimedia applications. Our project, called Massively-parallel And Real-time Storage (MARS) is aimed at prototype development of such a large scale server. This...

The PLAYOUT Framework Approach

We present a new generator based framework approach. The framework is part of the PLAYOUT design system. After developing this design system in a conventional fashion and performing several large hierarchical designs, we observed that it is necessary to design our own framework. We extended the PLAYOUT system by an adequate environment that covers data management, design flow management, and th...

Architecture-Driven Modelling Methodologies

Classical software development methodologies take architectural issues as granted or pre-determined. They thus neglect the impact decisions for architecture have within the development process. This omission is applicable as long as we are considering monolithic systems. It cannot however been kept whenever we move to distributed systems. Web information systems pay far more attention to users ...

Hierarchical structuring of layout problems in an interactive evolutionary layout system

This paper focuses on computer-based generative methods for layout problems in architecture and urban planning with special regard for the hierarchical structuring of layout elements. The generation of layouts takes place using evolutionary algorithms, which are used to optimize the arrangement of elements in terms of overlapping within a given boundary and the topological relations between the...