Towards Unmanaged Multimedia Adaptations using Automated Aspect Weaving

Abstract—The goal of this research is to devise a new architecture for integrating aspect oriented methodologies existing in the software engineering community to develop an Adaptive Composition and Runtime Environment (ACRE) for unmanaged adaptation of multimedia applications. The architecture of ACRE presented in this paper can transform non-adaptive applications by injecting adaptive behaviors into them and then execute them in a QoS-aware manner. The integrated environment presented in this paper, works at the level of JVM and the underlying OS for application transformation and adaptive resource handling. The proposed environment can be used to provide a sufficient degree of user perceived QoS in smart home / office environments, without programming adaptive behaviors in the applications. Keywords – Aspects, Middleware, Adaptation. 1