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Accessing
informationa anytime, anywhere, with any device is primary demand
of today's information oriented society. The real question is
however, how to bring services and multimedia to terminals to
be used anywhere. Our approach to multimedia adaptation offers
a way to adapt multimedia presentations to all kinds of terminals
used over mobile or fixed networks. The original presentation
is compressed or scaled based on user's terminal parameters and
network bandwidth. Special emphasis has been placed on how to
deliver a variety of media to mobile terminals. In this research
a multimedia adaptation schema called a Media Wrapper is proposed.
The profiles from client and network are presented using CC/PP
profiling which is a tag-based language for delivering profile
information. The main task of the Media Wrapper is to decide the
format and size of the adapted presentation based on the knowledge
from these profiles. The second task of the Media Wrapper is to
adapt original presentation to an appropriate output format using
different codecs, compression methods and scaling tools. These
tools and methods are controlled by Adaptation Agents which are
implemented as intelligent software agents. Keywords: multimedia
adaptation, mobility, software agents, CC/PP profiling
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