Using the Amsterdam Hypermedia Model for Abstracting Presentation Behavior

We give a short description of the Amsterdam Hypermedia Model followed by examples of its use in a number of existing and planned applications. The main application to date has been as a basis of the multimedia authoring system, CMIFed, along with its ability to specify trade-offs for resource use. We discuss the models potential for generating differing document formats, followed by future work on using it as a goal format for generating multimedia documents