ADAMITE
PROJECT TITLE: Advanced Document Architecture for Multimedia Information Transfer & Exchange
ACRONYM: ADAMITE
Subject Area: Multimedia Information NetworkCommunications Protocol
Description
The advent of Multimedia and their related impact on technological implementation infrastructure, is about to dawn a new era in multiple fields of societal structure, most apparent perhaps being education and business. Supporting technologies in information rendering, management and routing are due to proliferate and evolve in a proportional rate as well as in a multitude of applicable levels. Although significant leaps are performed in Metropolitan Level Networking Infrastructure, moderate progress is demonstrated in protocols able to efficiently undertake both physical carrier and structural integrity for conveying the multi-format information demands of multimedia, in a truly universal mode. A further de facto prerequisite demand for such protocol technologies, should also be regarded to be simplicity of use and implementation, as well as a conceivable universal acceptance in both developed and under-development countries.
The ADAMITE project is intended to offer an early, well defined as well as innovative solution to the rapidly rising multimedia networks market.
As it is now becoming obvious in the related industry, this evolution is accompanied by two complementary definitions, which are "distributed resources" and "agent oriented".
We had the opportunity to envisage these upcoming trends quite early -about 10 years ago- and work towards that direction , as well as produce some commercial products.
ADAMITE is a cumulative effort of our R&D activities towards producing a conclusive product, effectively comprising already existing standards fused with state-of-the-art private research.
We see a preliminary implementation of the ADAMITE product in very large non-linear multimedia databases management, and for this purpose we have complemented our activities with the design and manufacture of a totally new concept OPTICAL MEDIA JUKEBOX, codenamed PERSEUS. By concept, the ADAMITE is practically system and hardware independent, and similarwise, the multimedia jukebox is media, capacity and size independent. The motivation for an early realization of the ADAMITE project, was to timely initiate commercial awareness. Initial development efforts focused on providing the information structuring vehicle able to fully exploit the communication features available in both conventional carrier as well as upcoming technologies. The expected benefits are multifold, amplified by the fact that ADAMITE may thereof provide a facile Wide Area Network bridge between incompatible LAN islands across buildings, or across countries.
Briefly accounted, the "ADAMITE Vehicle" is composed of five subordinate structures:
a) A.D.A.M.I.T.E. (Advanced Document Architecture for Multimedia Information Transfer & Exchange)
A complementary methodology for assembling /collating/fusing/conveying multiformat information entities (e.g. text, images, graphics, animation, video, audio) into an integral structure coded under GIII compatible BFT encoding schemes. This compound file may be transmitted to any recipient system via V.29 fax or any other more advanced protocol, and further be ad verbum decomposed to the original entities, via BIEOF tools.
b) D.A.E.S.M.I.S. (Distributed Administration Environment for Subscriber - oriented Multimedia Information System)
This is the Information Management Core of the ADAMITE vehicle and also constitutes an innovative approach in Database Architectures, as it is designed under a generically distributed and open principle. DAESMIS' elementary module of information is the file entity, irrespective to file format (i.e. text, image, video, audio, etc.), size and location. In addition, DAESMIS will handle complete workstation "island" environments by linking together applications with data. The distributed nature of this universal information management system, provides the building ground for the design of non linear databases with an object-oriented approach. Combined with the inherent object-oriented structuring and recombination of data entities, DAESMIS aims to provide the native building/structuring/classification/ presentation environment, for the Multimedia Databases of the future.
c) U.S.I.R.A. (Universal Semantic Information Retrieval Agent)
A full eventual exploitation of the ADAMITE vehicle should result into a sophisticated - yet straightforward- message and procedural request exchange system, able to assign, generate & convey Remote Task Procedures between systems or system groups.
Eventually, in upcoming modern Object Oriented & inherently multitasking operating systems, such anticipated features could appear as innate capabilities. The proposed methodology will provide a concise - yet complete - basic description of a "tokenized information module quantum exchange". The USIRA module is a general purpose highly intelligent and adaptable retrieval agent (through exploitation of neural nets, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms techniques), able to handle/analyze /recognize complex patterns of information into complex alphanumeric or binary file structures via usage of advanced pattern recognition methods.
The operational ground of this agent is expandable by nature as well, since it may host innate (i.e. core) operations & functions, but may also encapsulate and utilize a practically limitless amount of external applications by means of "filter operators" oriented resources. The USIRA agent, will engage the routing and migration facilities offered by the ADAMITE module so as to convey and navigate itself across system islets. In essence, the anticipated evolution for USIRA will be the creation of an intelligent/flexible/universal methodology for Distributed Processing Models of computing.
d) B.I.E.O.F. (Binary Information Exchange OCR Format)
A generic methodology for the exchange of alphanumeric information between systems with dissimilar Operating System & Character Set Structures. A binary equivalent format is used as an intermediate metafile for information exchange between originator and recipient systems and a special purpose OCR (Optical Character Recognition) module with recipient specific correspondence details, converses the tranceived information to local alphanumeric format. BIEOF may naturally act as a bridge between conventional character set systems (e.g. 7 or 8 bit etc.) and the upcoming standard of the UNICODE standard. e) C.R.O.M.A. (Communal Resources Object Modules Manager & Assembler)
The modules listed so far, will be consequently accommodated under a Common Management Environment which will also serve as the primary classification/browsing/queering/assembling/embedding interface for accessing and running the resources available. The CROMA module, may also render submodules of itself so as to facilitate the creation of functional subclasses for delimited targeted usages (i.e. the creation of runtime modules for partially accessing DAESMIS data). CROMA, however plain and terse as a user interface, induces advanced production-oriented multimedia methodologies in order to access and process the cumulus of data and resources assigned with. Among common design approach aspects,CROMA maintains the open to interface and expansion options, so as to allow its continuous growth as an environment with the supporting applications and tools required by the specific computing tasks of users.
An entry level version of DAESMIS is already partially implemented as a commercial S/W product codenamed "PERGAMOS Multimedia Information Management system".
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