A STUDY OF THE 'MULTI-AGENT BASED USER ACCESS AND CORRELATED PATTERN IN OPTIMAL CONTENT ALLOCATION METHOD FOR FEDERATED VIDEO DIGITAL LIBRARIES'

摘要

Digital libraries are emerging technologies for content management. These contents include multimedia and video objects which involve high storage and bandwidth costs. It is necessary to formulate a new method by taking into account all aspects of multimedia and video-on-demand content management. This paper describes a new approach called the "multi-agent based user access pattern oriented optimal content allocation method" for digital libraries and is concerned with various behavioral patterns of digital library systems. The content access pattern not only varies based on regional interest, subject interest, cultural interest etc. but also over time because of the movement of various user communities. A mathematical technique is adopted in finding the intra-correlation between different languages and regions among the number of individuals in any region who access any language at any time based upon the unit bandwidth cost, storage cost and delay time cost for the additional requirement of bandwidth. The suggested model proves to be a more cost-effective method with regard to the design for dynamic content allocation when compared with other mathematical models for content allocation available in literature.