USING BITSTREAM SEGMENT GRAPHS FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF DATA FORMAT INSTANCES

Michael Hartle, Friedrich-Daniel Möller, Slaven Travar, Benno Kröger, Max Mühlhäuser

2008

Abstract

Manual development of format-compliant software components is complex, time-consuming and thus error-prone and expensive, as data formats are defined in semi-formal, textual specifications for human engineers. Existing approaches on a formal description of data formats remain at high-level descriptions and fail to describe phenomena such as compression or fragmentation that are especially common in Multimedia file formats. As a step-stone towards the description of data formats as a whole, this paper presents Bitstream Segment Graphs as a complete model on data format instances and presents an example PNG where a complete model on data format instances is required.

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in Harvard Style

Hartle M., Möller F., Travar S., Kröger B. and Mühlhäuser M. (2008). USING BITSTREAM SEGMENT GRAPHS FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF DATA FORMAT INSTANCES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-53-1, pages 198-205. DOI: 10.5220/0001891101980205


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft08,
author={Michael Hartle and Friedrich-Daniel Möller and Slaven Travar and Benno Kröger and Max Mühlhäuser},
title={USING BITSTREAM SEGMENT GRAPHS FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF DATA FORMAT INSTANCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,},
year={2008},
pages={198-205},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001891101980205},
isbn={978-989-8111-53-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,
TI - USING BITSTREAM SEGMENT GRAPHS FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF DATA FORMAT INSTANCES
SN - 978-989-8111-53-1
AU - Hartle M.
AU - Möller F.
AU - Travar S.
AU - Kröger B.
AU - Mühlhäuser M.
PY - 2008
SP - 198
EP - 205
DO - 10.5220/0001891101980205