Script languages

As an example, the Company part is given in Figure 5 in terms of the inputs (end(o)) and the outputs (start, map, unmap) of the state machine model previously defined.

Excellent Expressive power:

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Capable of implementing scenarios with any arbitrary complexity.

Poor authoring capabilities.

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Authors are assumed to have programming skills.

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It is difficult to achieve a temporal placement by using a script language.

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It is difficult to modify an existing script in order to get a new temporal organization.

The most widespread approaches for specifying multimedia documents are based on the programming paradigm Lingo, IconAuthor, MHEG.