This article discusses software architecture modelling for the design and development of interactive systems. Software architecture models should support properties and constraints prescribed by the software and cognitive psychology communities. From these observations, we derive a multi-agent framework applicable to the software design of interactive systems. An example shows how this general ...

This work describes a simulation study of client-server architectures, and a UNIX-based le system with multimedia extensions. An interactive multime-dia workload is used to compare the throughput and scalability of the traditional and a new hybrid client-server architecture. Simulation results indicate that the hybrid client-server, combined with the multime-dia le system, is a promising distri...

An architecture for delivering interactive multimedia courseware to schools, known as the Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE), 1 is being developed on a testbed consisting of (1) a network-resident architecture supported by a highspeed ATM WAN, (2) a classroom-resident architecture consisting of PC LANs in participating school classrooms, and (3) a satellite communications...

A radical reappraisal of the 3-D Interactive raster graphics pipeline has resulted In an experimental architecture for a workstation which is currently being evaluated at the CW!. The principal features of this architecture are that It: concentrates exclusively on real-time interactive 3-D graphics (initially for CAD). uses object space rather than Image space methods where possible. avoids usi...

The bela architecture for interactive rendering of regularly structured volumetric data sets is presented. The proposed architecture is scalable and uses custom processors to achieve high-speed shading, projection. and composition of voxel primitives. A general purpose image composition network supports the accumulation of both volumetric and geometric elements into the final rendered scene. Da...

Large scale storage servers that provide location transparent, interactive access to hundreds or thousands of concurrent, independent clients will be important components of hte furture information super-highway infrastructure. Two key requirements of such servers are as follows: support high parallelism and concurrency in data access to allow large number of access to the same or different dat...

This paper briefs the architecture, characteristics, key technology of distributed interactive simulation, and the research and application of distributed interactive simulation in US armed forces. In combination with the practice of combat simulation of PLA army forces, it has explored the application of distributed interactive simulation technology in army combat simulation, and brought forwa...

Interactive data mining focuses on efficient and effective humancomputer interactions for data analysis purposes. An interactive system is an integration of a human user and a computer machine. ICS, an interactive classification system, is implemented to demonstrate the power of interactive data mining. The interaction is mutually beneficial to users and machines. This article describes the arc...

This report introduces the Software Architecture for Immersipresence (SAI) framework to the computer music community. SAI is a software architecture model for designing, analyzing and implementing applications that perform distributed, asynchronous parallel processing of generic data streams. The most significant innovation of SAI is its ability to handle real-time DSP, interactive control, and...