While semantic technologies and the use of ontologies is one of the proposed solutions to the heterogeneity problem in database systems, the independent generation of ontologies leaves us with another heterogeneity problem. ...

Teaching machines to learn patterns in data is very common these days, and it has a broad spectrum of applications everywhere. Sensors like smart-watches are getting more functionality each year, and more and more people ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

Autonomous manufacturing and assembly requires precise estimation of pose (position and orientation) of the object to be handled. If geometric information of the object is available, such as a CAD file, these estimates can ...

This thesis presents challenges and necessary requirements for simulating shared photovoltaic (PV) energy production and appliance consumption scheduling in urban apartment buildings. Such simulations are useful as a tool ...

Passive fingerprinting with a Deep Learning approach. The approach is compared to three well established machine learning algorithms; SVM, KNN and Random Forest. A never before used value for fingerprinting, the TCP ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

Modern large-scale software systems are highly configurable. Thus, they require a large number of test cases to be implemented and revised for testing a variety of system configurations. This makes software testing of ...

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the most important topics in computing technology. With the ever-growing demands for a variety of services in cloud infrastructure, providing fast and affordable computing resources to ...

In this thesis, we present a study of English noun–noun compound analysis that takes a holistic perspective on the problem. The holistic nature of our work manifests in three respects. First, of five compound analysis ...

In the search for new technologies to assist the fish industry in the fight against diseases, computer vision is playing an essential role. The ability to automatically detect and inspect fish through a camera lens opens ...

This thesis explores preschool children’s interaction with a conversational agent (CA), and we position this work within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through a preliminary case study, we explored children ...

A blockchain is a distributed ledger comprised of practically unchange- able, digital recorded data in packages called blocks. Each block in the chain contains data and is cryptographically hashed. The blocks of hashed ...

Named Data Networking (NDN) has built in congestion mechanisms, both in end-node applications and in the forwarding strategy in intermediate nodes. End-nodes may adjust sending rate. Intermediate nodes will rank each face ...

This thesis describes the design of a domain map prototype, which serves as a means of tackling wicked problems from the perspective of knowledge federation. This is to cre-ate a new way of problem-solving in a time of ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en fortolkende studie av digitale læringsmiljøer i høyere utdanning. Studien er en del av det pedagogiske kvalitative prosjektet UDFeed. Studien fulgte et emne ved Institutt for Informatikk ved ...

The school health service is an important service working with health preventive measures for youth. However, challenges exist, for example in terms of resources. Chatbots represent new opportunities for strengthening the ...

Recently, personal privacy has increasingly started coming to people's attention, as we are digitally more connected to each other. The development of new mobile products connected to the Internet are starting to take a ...

Algorithm-based, automated solutions allow designers and engineers to support the tasks of human operators, or transfer parts of their work to a system. However, pushing the limits of automation might make the tasks left ...

In this thesis, swarm airports are introduced as a way of obtaining continuous operation in an autonomous drone swarm. An airport acts as a service station where the drones can replenish their energy autonomously. When ...

While coordination is assumed to contribute to distributed self-managing work team performance, our knowledge about the factors influencing coordination in such team settings is limited. In the present study, we investigate ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

Denne oppgaven dreier seg om reparasjon av mobiltelefoner som en del av et bærekraftig eierskap, fordi dagens praksis fører med seg store miljøskader. Forskningsspørsmålene jeg ønsker å svare på gjennom oppgaven er: 1. ...

People are bad at making passwords, resulting in an easily exploitable security vulnerability across the digital landscape. Basing your memorized password on something like your spouse’s name or even your own is inherently ...

Learning about the periodic table of elements can be a challenge for second grade students. The amount of theoretical information, combined with abstract scientific concepts, makes it difficult for students’ meaning-making. ...

This thesis is an exploration of transitions towards a more sustainable fashion industry with a cross-disciplinary project involving Norwegian fashion brand Haik With Us. Together we created a research product that is 10 ...

How can older adults actively participate in the design processes of assistive robots designed for their homes? We have organized workshops with a group of older adults who worked actively with materials and physical ...

Gamification is a term for adding game design elements into a non-game context. Using motivational theory and gamification theory this thesis explores how adding game elements to an educational learning tool affects students ...

In this work, we tackled the task of identifying sentiment bearing sentences for product reviews in Norwegian. We have created a set of automatically labeled datasets that classify sentences in terms of how relevant they ...

More compliant robots have certain benefits when coming to cooperating with humans. Standard industrial robots today require many safety measurements to be legal and safe to operate. Soft robots can therefor be safer, have ...

The Norwegian language is under-resourced for various Natural Language Processing tasks, including the task of sentiment analysis. However, recent publications of sentiment analysis datasets such as the Norwegian Review ...

The rapid increase in the number of processors demands quicker and more reliant data availability to avoid extensive memory accesses. Caches hierarchies are most important in an efficient n-core system. However, more ...

This thesis explores preschool children’s interaction with a conversational agent (CA), and we position this work within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through a preliminary case study, we explored children ...

Information and communication technologies, such as remote health monitoring and mobile Internet, have played a key role on a major improvement on patients’ lives. The problem is that patient monitoring requires higher ...

Managing requirements are an integral part in any type of software development. In generic open source software projects, this process is increasingly difficult. Designing generic requirements and balancing the needs of ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en deltakende designprosess hvor målet har vært å undersøke hvordan kommunikasjon gjennom NAVs nettsider kan designes for og med sårbare brukere. NAV holder i dag på å digitalisere de fleste av ...

This paper reports from the early phase of a Participatory Design (PD) process where the goal is to design technology that involves people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their caretakers as participants. The ...

Background We previously reported that in pathogenic mismatch repair (path_MMR) variant carriers, the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) was not reduced when colonoscopy was undertaken more frequently ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

In this project, an image sensor designed to receive modulated light was designed and produced. Earlier, an image sensor consisting of alternating pixel topologies has been produced and tested. However, using a single pixel ...

Single cell RNA-sequencing is an increasingly popular tool for investigating the variability in gene expression between individual cells. Compared to the previously wide spread methods such as bulk RNA-sequencing, the ...

Precise wind power output predictions is of great importance for a successful integration of wind power into the power grid and market operations. A popular approach to short-term wind power prediction is to use machine ...

With the rise of packages sent to customers and online shopping becoming more popular, the user experience of package tracking is becoming more important. This thesis addresses the lack of theory in Service Design, and ...

Background Cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CBCT) is part of standard treatment of several cancers. In testicular cancer (TC) survivors, an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS) is observed. ...

The user experience of smartphones heavily rely upon functional internet connectivity, but, even though smartphones have multiple network links for accessing the internet, they are rarely able to utilize more than one link ...

This thesis examines the use of neural network methods for classifying parliamentary speeches by textual content. It introduces previous work in the field using traditional methods, and discusses aspects of the Talk of ...

This work is part of the SUPRE (SUbcutaneous PREssure sensor system) research project with the goal of developing health services for patients with dysfunctional urinary bladders. The NANO group at UiO has previously ...

Medical ultrasound is a non-invasive low-cost image modality used in diagnostic applications. It has become the preferred modality in cardiology. Motion estimation techniques may be applied to the echocardiographic images ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

Mobile robots operating in seniors' homes can serve as social companions and assist with daily tasks, thus enhancing the seniors' quality of life. In order for robots to assist seniors, it is crucial that they are equipped ...

This thesis addresses the problem of finding a robust test suite for software testing by the use of mutation testing and machine learning. The goal is to find out a test suite that is immune to most of the mutants that can ...

Since the introduction of Electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs) the gap in security between eMRTDs and Machine-Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) has been a cause for concern. In 2016, the International Civil ...

With all the data available today the need to label and categorise data is more important than ever. There are many machine learning and deep learning models well equipped to classify data. However, to find the best model ...

The use of technology to address mental health among youth in Norway is gaining traction, with many measures being implemented from the public sphere. Literature claims that peer-support can help alleviate some of the ...

The Norwegian Welfare Administration (NAV) annually posts a large dataset of job announcements. Each announcement is classified with an occupation code, and today NAV performs this classification of announcements manually ...

This thesis explores strength exercising and learning of bodily skills as a field that can be augmented through introducing digital sensory artefacts, that aim to alter the way the performance is perceived. Using feedback ...

Data preprocessing is a crucial step in data analysis. For preparing data for analysis, different actions may need to be performed on a given dataset including formatting, modification, extraction and enrichment. Data ...

Ultrasound imaging for medical applications is considered a cost-effective and non-invasive method of studying the internal structures of the body. One application is to study muscles and muscle architecture. Muscle ...

Ontologies are a field within semantic technologies concerned with modeling knowledge of a domain through the use of well-defined concepts and relationships. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is a field within the domain of ...