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| Publication date | 1/01/1994 |
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| Host publication | Multimedia Transport and Teleservices - International COST 237 Workshop, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| Pages | 145-167 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783540587590 |
| <mark>Original language</mark> | English |
| Event | International Workshop on COST 237 Multimedia Transport and Teleservices, 1994 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 13/11/1994 → 15/11/1994 |
| Conference | International Workshop on COST 237 Multimedia Transport and Teleservices, 1994 |
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| Country/Territory | Austria |
| City | Vienna |
| Period | 13/11/94 → 15/11/94 |
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 882 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
| Conference | International Workshop on COST 237 Multimedia Transport and Teleservices, 1994 |
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| Country/Territory | Austria |
| City | Vienna |
| Period | 13/11/94 → 15/11/94 |
Formal description techniques have been applied successfully to the fields of communications and distributed systems. We argue, however, that the recent emergence of multimedia computing will have a significant impact on this work. In particular, existing formal description techniques do not satisfactorily model the real-time behaviour exhibited by distributed multimedia systems. This paper considers the impact of multimedia on formal description techniques and proposes an approach in which functional behaviour is expressed in the language LOTOS and non-functional quality of service is expressed in a real-time temporal logic. This dual language approach to formal description is demonstrated through a number of multimedia examples, culminating in the specification of a lip-synchronization algorithm.