The ROMEO project focuses on the delivery of multiview 3-Dimensional (3D) video enriched with spatial audio on a converged network architecture. Quality of Experience (QoE) modeling plays an important role in several aspects of the overall ROMEO architecture, such as in video compression, multicast tree formation in the P2P overlay, content adaptation and view synthesis. To address various use ...

Last time we reported on Romeo, analyses with this tool were mostly based on translations to other tools. This new version provides an integrated TCTL model-checker and has gained in expressivity with the addition of parameters. Although there exists other tools to compute the state-space of stopwatch models, Romeo is the first one that performs TCTL model-checking on stopwatch models. Moreover...

8 Christopher J. Forgaard, Ian M. Franks, Dana Maslovat, Laurence Chin, and Romeo Chua 9 1. School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia 10 2. Department of Kinesiology, Langara College 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Address Correspondence to: 20 Dr. Romeo Chua 21 School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia 22 War Memorial Gymnasium 210-6081 University Boulevard 23 Vancouver, Bri...

This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results...

We are launching the open access journal Children, a scholarly forum with pediatrics as the main focus. The journal title came to the minds of Dr. Brietta Pike and I in 2011, when both of us were lucky enough to have a new baby in our respective families. As the publisher of MDPI journals, over the past few years I have launched many journals related to sustainability [1] — now yet one more jou...

our ability to read everything about a subject we love—young adult literature—is impossible at best. Too often, we give a cursory glance to that we favor, hoping someday, we will have the time and the inclination to read all that we missed, and then some. The purpose of this column—The Research Connection—is to help alleviate this very concern. True, you want to read every young adult novel tha...

At a critical moment in the movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being,1 the audience sees a glass tremble on a table. Because the story is set in Prague Spring of 1968, we know the rattling glass and then the faint rumble signal the arrival of Soviet tanks. But the tremors go unnoticed by the characters, Tomas, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, and Tereza, played by Juliette Binoche, who are arguing ov...