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(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2014)
The elderly population in Norway is increasing in number, and there will be a greater need for health care services and care units. The introduction of welfare technology can aid facing this challenge in order to assist ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Flight control systems, railway interlocking systems, and nuclear reactor protection systems are examples of safety critical systems from different industrial domains. A safety critical system within any of these domains ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In this thesis the possibility to interact with the virtual machine without traversing the network or using monitoring agents are explored. Instead of using this traditional approach the intention are to exploit the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Digital image analysis has proved to be a powerful tool for providing a prognosis for cancer patients. For the prognosis to be as robust and reliable as possible, information regarding cell-type is needed, and damaged or ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis is concerned with development of efficient mobile applications for shopping on the go and takes a user-centered perspective, focusing on providing good customer experience. A case of an established wholesaler ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This paper investigates the emergence and nourishment of group creativity within humancomputer interaction design (HCID). HCID practitioners are groomed within a scientific tradition and primarily perceive themselves as ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied extensively in logistic and supply chain applications. Long-range passive RFID systems offer higher reliability and flexibility compared to conventional ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis develops a method of qualitative spatial reasoning based on the spatial semantics of Stephen C. Levinson. Levinson's semantics concern projective relations in natural language, which thus become the focus of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
A common way to answer queries in Ontology Base Data Access (OBDA), is to divide the process into two stages. The first stage, called the ontology rewriting, deals with the ontology axioms. The second stage, called the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The significant improvements in throughput and quality of DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized our ability to identify the genetic sequence of human cells. High-throughput genome sequencing of tumor cells has ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The use of multimedia streaming on the internet is increasing. With this the need for new protocols is created. The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) can support this better than other existing protocols like ...
GroupJam: Distance Functions and Clustering Mechanisms for Scalable Active Music Systems Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Historically, the use of graphics cards for scientific computing has yielded great performance. Order-of-magnitude performance gains has been obtained over the CPU (Owens et al. 2008). This is mainly due to their massively ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
We prove that a selection of quality of information optimisation problems related to event detection in sensor networks are NP-hard.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Examining the benefits of adding syntactic information to a system for solving a given question answering task.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
There is a great amount of data on the Web, but to a large extent it is not published as linked data that computers can consume. Visual annotation tools have a considerable potential to empower end users to contribute their ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Video games have proven to be an interesting platform for computer scientists, as many games demand the latest technology, fast response times and effective utilization of hardware. Video games have been used both as a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on how GPUs can be utilized for general purpose computations. However, this leads to less focus on the CPU as a computational resource. As a consequence, heterogeneous computers ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The project is all about the design, documentation and implementation of a program to perform Delaunay triangulation. The program is written in Java and is focused on performance both with regard to run-time and memory ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2014)
Det er satt i gang et nasjonalt program for utvikling og innføring av velferdsteknologi i de kommunale helse- og omsorgtjenestene, med hovedmål om at velferdsteknologi skal være en integrert del av helse- og omsorgstilbudene ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2014)
The elderly population in Norway is increasing in number, and there will be a greater need for health care services and care units. The introduction of welfare technology can aid facing this challenge in order to assist ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Cloud computing is gaining increasing popularity because of its higher scalability,more flexibility and ease of availability of its services. Cloud Computing enables service providers to build a large pool of resources to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
A population-based study was performed to investigate the efficacy of mecillinam treatment of community-acquired urinary tract infections (CA-UTI) caused by extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The concept of Service Oriented Architecture, and its most common implementation method Web services, has not seen widespread use on wireless mobile systems and smart devices. NATO seeks to incorporate these communication ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In automated home care systems (HCSs), sensor technology is employed to monitor patients, thereby aiming to reduce the workload of healthcare professionals and improving the patient s quality of life. A complex event ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The later years have seen an increasing demand for systems that can perform fast genome-wide analyses. An important component of such a system is the data model. The data model of the Genomic HyperBrowser analysis system ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
A fast segmentation of tubular tree structures like vessel systems in volumetric datasets is of vital interest for many medical applications. This is especially valid for planning and navigation in catheter based interventions ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In this paper, the use of concepts such as visual immediacy, metaphor, analogy, blending and abduction is proposed as a way of facilitating visual reasoning in sense-making activities in human-computer interaction (HCI) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Bakgrunn: Unge, langtidssyke pasienter står ovenfor en vanskelig og krevende prosess når de skal overføres fra barne- og ungdomsavdeling og over til voksenavdeling. Behovet for å styrke autonomien, og lysten til å ta mer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
The increasing popularity of virtualized services and cloud computing, offering elastic and scalable computing resources challenges software engineering methods by asking a number of new questions: How can we integrate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The information processing demands of many of today's businesses have outgrown the legacy relational database management system (RDBMS) software resulting from both the data explosive growth and the variety of data models. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis offers a usability and user documentation review of a Health Information System, District Health Information System 2 (DHIS 2). To reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health improvement set by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background Transcatheter aortic valve implantation involves percutaneously implanting a biomechanical aortic valve to treat severe aortic stenosis. In order to select a proper device, precise sizing of the aortic valve ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The progress of computer science and mechanical and electrical engineering in the field of robotics has increased the applicability of robots for replacing human resources in the performance of repetitive and dangerous ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background Mammography screen-detected breast cancers have a better prognosis than predicted from established prognostic markers. A search for additional features that are characteristic for these tumours and their prognosis ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
We present Funky Sole Music, a musical interface employing a sole embedded with three force sensitive resistors in combination with a novel algorithm for continuous movement classification. A heuristics-based music engine ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
Unbounded data structures, advanced functions and data types, and/or different forms of communication are often needed to model large and complex probabilistic real-time systems such as wireless sensor network algorithms. ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
Several formal models combine probabilistic and nondeterministic features. To allow their probabilistic simulation and statistical model checking by means of pseudo-random number sampling, all sources of nondeterminism ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The paper reports from a qualitative study based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews and Participatory Design activities with hospitalised teenagers with chronic health challenges. We studied how teenage patients ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Conservation laws describing one or more conserved quantities in time arise in a multitude of different scientific areas. Mathematically, conservation laws are expressed as partial differential equations (PDEs). In this ...
Component-based multimedia application for fine-grained migration Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
With the advent of powerful mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and ultraportable laptops, users today are surrounded by a wide array of heterogeneous devices that are capable of downloading, processing and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
It is an undeniable fact nowadays that services have become a vital catalyst for economic growth worldwide. Innovation in services is regarded as being a key pillar in order to sustain the growth momentum of the service ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
A method for speech enhancement in a reverberating environment using microphone arrays is presented. It is defined in the time-domain, based on an acoustic signal model formulated using image sources. The method uses the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis deals with the prototypical implementation of activity zone monitoring using the mobile phone. It uses the mobile phone sensors especially the accelerometer sensor to establish four types of motions and through ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Tema for denne masteroppgaven er brukeropplevelser i interaktive utstillinger i museer. Forskning på brukeropplevelser og sosial interaksjon er utbredt innen Human Computer Interaction-feltet (HCI), men ikke innen det mer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Kontekst: Det har de siste årene vært et økende fokus på brukeropplevelse innenfor systemutvikling. Brukeropplevelse har også blitt en egen profesjon, og vi har i dag spesialister som har egne teknikker og verktøy for å ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2014)
The purpose of this thesis has been to explore how students interact and learn with a new scientific inquiry system, Monoplant. We developed the system, which is an Internet-connected plant visualizing different aspects ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This project focuses on how to benchmark a SMB/CIFS storage with trace and replay methodology. Traces are used primarily by file system researchers in an attempt to understand, categorize, and generalize file system ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Complex source code impacts the cost of software maintenance in a negative way. In an object-oriented context, one class may depend on a high number of other classes, thus contributing to the complexity of a program and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis is about research and implementation on a distributed objectoriented programming language called Emerald on smartphones. Our goal is to couple smartphones seamlessly to the cloud where we span the gap between ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Social networks are systems that are generally composed of multiple entities interacting with each other to provide a desired functionality. The interactions between these entities can be modeled as graphs. Presenting these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The traditional concept of fairness in TCP is based on being limited by congestion control. Today, however, we see that TCP is being used as transport for interactive applications that have latency requirements. These ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The availability of large amounts of molecular data of unprecedented depth and width has instigated new paths of interdisciplinary activity in cancer research. Translation of such information to allow its optimal use in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background
Recent developments in deep (next-generation) sequencing technologies are significantly impacting medical research. The global analysis of protein coding regions in genomes of interest by whole ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background
Global environmental change is causing spatial and temporal shifts in the distribution of species and the associated diseases of humans, domesticated animals and wildlife. In the on-going debate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background
It is of great importance to identify molecular processes and pathways that are involved in disease etiology. Although there has been an extensive use of various high-throughput methods for this ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
This thesis studies exact rational parametrizations of blends between the natural quadrics. The first part focuses on fixed and variable radius rolling ball blends as patches on canal surfaces. Closed formulae for the blend ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
This thesis focuses on model-driven software product line development, which is the combination of the following two software development paradigms: (1) Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), which focuses on modeling software ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
This thesis presents a new modelling framework for dialogue management based on the concept of probabilistic rules. Probabilistic rules are defined as if...then...else constructions associating logical conditions on input ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Personvernserklæringer er lite tilgjengelige og inneholder svært mye informasjon skrevet på et avansert språk. Dette har resultert i at svært få tar seg bryet med å lese innholdet i dem. Brukere av nettjenester har ikke ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In order to work successfully together, it is important that people understand each other. In global IT-projects, different team-members, with diverse cultural backgrounds, work from different locations. A consequence of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2014)
Distributed and concurrent object-oriented systems are difficult to analyze due to the complexity of their concurrency, communication, and synchronization mechanisms. The future mechanism extends the traditional method ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The cloud of Linked Open Data is steadily growing, yet it remains largely inaccessible to the general public, due to the technical barrier posed by the requirement to know formal query languages. In this thesis, we present ...
Performance Study of SDN Control Plane and Implementation of PBR to Provide Differentiated Services. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a logical approach to networking. The control plane is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a controller. A software based controller is responsible for ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The Norwegian Dependency Treebank is a new syntactic treebank for Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk with manual syntactic and morphological annotation, developed at the National Library of Norway in collaboration with the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Tenåringer er en neglisjert gruppe innenfor forskning. Det er få studier som involverer tenåringer, og enda færre med unge pasienter. De fleste studiene som finnes bruker tenåringer hovedsakelig som testere og informanter. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Background and motivation
The health of human tissue can be indicated by the stiffness of the tissue. It is known that the risk of a nodule being malignant is increased with the stiffness of the nodule. Elastography is ...
Adaptive Routing in InfiniBand Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
InfiniBand is one of the most popular interconnection network standards, in the area of High-Performance Computing (HPC). The InfiniBand architecture supports deterministic routing. This prevents packets from using alternative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Before adopting or implementing new technology solutions, there is a need for a decision support method which enlightens the effects of the implementation of the various decision alternatives with respect to cost, risk, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
A new logic style named Two-Phase Dynamic Ultra-Low Voltage (TP-DULV) logic is developed. The new logic style uses the increased gate voltage swing from the ULV FG technique and introduces a new concept for ensuring a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Telemedicine system provide medical services to those who can not access it due to distance. In such systems, the patient s critical information, including medical data, images, audio and video, must be delivered to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Partisjonering av parallelle simuleringer med OMNeT++ Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Mobile Broadband (MBB) traffic is increasing rapidly, and is estimated to keep growing in future due to the availability of high speed 3G/4G networks and the popularity of mobile devices. People are accessing Internet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
There is extensive on-going research taking place with the goal of implementing transport layer protocols that are able to utilize multi-homing on machines (connection to multiple ISPs). Multi-homing has potential to improve ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Background: In software engineering there are several principles that got an impact on a software project. If these principles are applied the wrong way, or not considered, it can starve a software project. WIP-limit is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
One of TCP's key task is to react and avoid network congestion episodes which normally arise in packet switched networks. A wide literature is existed in many different scenarios concerning the behaviour of congestion ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
MovieCutter Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
A common goal for Health Information Systems in developing countries that are supported by outside actors is eventual self-sustainability. Sustainability is based on the fulfillment of needs in both financial and human ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Enormous Internet growth is an obvious trend nowadays while Internet protocol version 4 address space exhaustion led into the invention of Internet protocol version 6 and subsequently raised the transitioning challenges ...