An integrated approach to coordination description in distributed multimedia applications

This paper proposes an original integrated approach allowing coordination rules to be described for resource allocation in Distributed Multimedia Applications. Our approach has two major benefits. On the one hand, it allows the scalability and the dynamicity required for today's distributed systems. On the other hand, rather than bringing a new formalism and rather than making a dialect of an existing formal language we work on how two existing description techniques may be integrated to compositionally describe the whole system. An implementation of our approach is presented.