Pierfrancesco Bellini, Ivan Bruno, Attilio Evangelisti, Paolo Nesi, Davide Rogai

The evolution of data processing and distribution is urging optimized and scalable architectures for reducing operative and computational costs. Aggregators and distributors constantly need to adopt innovative means for reducing costs and to satisfy the user needs.
AXMEDIS Framework aims at providing technical solutions and tools for automating data production, formatting, protection and distribution. The solution described in the paper was designed as a distributed environment based on the GRID technology and provides an efficient management of data processing and access as well as the dynamic service discovery and composition, distributed resource management and adaptive video and images delivery. AXMEDIS is a large IST FP6 Integrated Project of Research and Development, in which a set of enabling technologies are developed to cope with the above mentioned problems.