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In this paper, we aim to provide adaptive multimedia services especially video ones to the users in an efficient and secure manner. Users moving outside the office should be able to maintain an office-like environment at their current locations. First, the agents within the architecture negotiate the different communication and interaction factors autonomously and dynamically. Moreover, we needed to develop a user agent in addition to service and system agents that could negotiate the requirements and capabilities at run time to furnish best possible service results. Thus we designed and integrated a video indexing and key framing service within an overall agent-based architecture. We integrated this video indexing and content-based analysis service to adapt the video content according to run time conditions. We designed a video XML schema to validate the media content out of this multimedia service according to specific requirements and features.
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Ahmed, M., Harroud, H., Impey, R., Karmouch, A. (2002). Designing Multimedia Service Agents for Mobile Users. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_11
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