A framework for managing and optimizing the adaptation process qualities

Abstract

Multimedia technologies and advanced internet networks are vital to the economic development of both developed and developing countries. In the mobile multimedia domain, excellence is synonymous to the quality management of multimedia documents. Currently, these documents are accessible on a wide variety of devices, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. The (hardware and software) heterogeneity of such devices and the diversity of user preferences require adaptation of multimedia documents. Current adaptation frameworks do not fully exploit the semantic benefits for describing the adaptation components and the quality of services. However, we have noticed that current adaptation frameworks do not handle any issue related to adaptation quality customization and optimization. This paper overcomes this limitation by proposing a generic framework for selecting a relevant set of adaptation services according to user preferences and allowing the automatic generation of a dynamic and a quality composition of heterogeneous adaptation components. Our proposal has the great advantage to offer to users a global flexible adaptation infrastructure for adaptation of multimedia document and customization of quality of service properties.