Multimedia Documents Storage: an Evolutionary based Application

Multimedia data storage is a critical is sue in relation to the overall system s performance and functionality This paper studies a multimedia document application which e ectively guides data placement towards improving the quality of presen tation of multimedia data Several storage policies are proposed towards better response and service times Multimedia data dependencies access fre quencies and timing constraints are used to guide the storage policies under a certain representation model The proposed placement policies are based on the simulated annealing algorithm and an ex tended improved version of the typical simulated an nealing approach is presented Experimentation re sults are presented and their impact on the total sys tem s performance is commented and evaluated