Context-aware content adaptation: a systems approach

The use of context information is fundamental for the implementation of useful and efficient content adaptation operations. These in turn are instrumental to enable the universal access to multimedia content, meeting usage environment constraints imposed by terminals and networks. From a systems’ perspective, delivering content to heterogeneous clients through diverse networks and environments, requires the provision of the structural support to process contextand content-related metadata and subsequently perform content adaptation operations. In addition it is essential to effectively enable the interoperation of diverse terminals and of all entities participating in the multimedia content delivery service. In this paper we present the approach taken in the IST ENTHRONE project through its Integrated Management Supervisor system.