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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The emergence of renewable energy resources such as solar energy from individuals’ solar panels enables individuals to generate energy not only to meet their own needs but also to sell to their neighbours. With microgrid ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
This Ph.D. thesis focuses on possible avenues for transitions toward more sustainable e-waste management systems in different countries of the Global South. Based on a transition management approach, the work captures ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Consider the most sustainable mobile phone to sit in your pocket. If you ever wondered about its design, production, and ‘consumption’ during useful life, it may have dawned to you how the next should be like. Can perhaps ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Transcriptional regulation is a process by which cells produce the necessary elements to respond to a given condition. A core element of this process is the interplay between cis-regulatory regions (CRRs) and transcription ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The grand challenges of our time, such as Sustainability Transitions (ST) are non-linear, interdisciplinary and systemic. In such complex contexts, prescriptive or reductionist approaches are not sufficient in addressing ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Every day, our immune system fights off potential threats such as viruses, bacteria or cancer cells. The key molecules used to recognise and memorise these antigens are so-called ‘adaptive immune receptors’. Recent ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Kernel methods are popular due to their solid and well-understood theoretical foundation. However, kernel-based learning methods generally have considerable memory and computational requirements that scale poorly with the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
New technologies have greatly contributed to the well-being of humankind and particularly so in health care, allowing the treatment of previously incurable diseases. However, integrating technological breakthroughs into ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects billions of devices with varying capacities that produce constant streams of data. Distributed stream processing systems (DSPS) are used to analyze these data streams and the processing ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
This Ph.D. thesis introduces a robust framework for detecting anomalies within Software Defined Networks (SDN). It offers two distinct approaches, offline and real-time, anchored in second-order logic. The offline method ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Echocardiography, i.e. ultrasound imaging of the heart, is the most frequently used modality and to be able to save clinicians’ time when analyzing such exams, automatic algorithms are being developed mainly using Deep ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis seeks to determine the skills that employers expect of software testers and evaluate these requirements in relation to testers' role performance. We found five specialties within the testing role. Due to the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Today’s software products are designed, developed and maintained by a variety of distributed stakeholders that are often cross-organizational. These stakeholders need to share artifacts and have a holistic view of the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Reservoir simulation is an important tool in the oil and gas industry, using mathematical models to predict the flow of fluids in sub-surface petroleum reservoirs. Oil and gas companies use reservoir simulations to make ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The main findings indicate that the existing literature on Information Security Governance (ISG) primarily focuses on "what" to implement, rather than providing guidance on "how" to do it. Another finding is the lack of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Small point targets can be difficult to detect in medical ultrasound images, but they are important in applications such as imaging of breast microcalcifications, kidney stones, and point tracking. The thesis explores how ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
To combat heart disease, clinicians need accurate information about the patient's heart function. Ultrasound images of the heart can be used to provide this information, but analysis of the images is needed to get accurate ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Smart homes may be beneficial for people of all ages, but this is especially true for those with care needs, such as the elderly. To assist, monitor for emergencies, and provide companionship for the elderly, a substantial ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The field of natural language processing has seen numerous advancements since its inception during the Cold War, when attempts were made to automate translating Russian text to English. The 2010s have been a particularly ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The inherently subjective notion of quality in creative artefacts gives rise to both technical and philosophical questions regarding AI-generated art. In this thesis, the development and evaluation of AI-generated dance ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
In the age of smart cities and self-driving cars, ensuring the safety and reliability of integrated computer systems is crucial. My research has found a way to make these systems, known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Nowadays, compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) poses a significant challenge for enterprises processing personal data. The GDPR protects individuals' privacy and imposes strict requirements on the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Large-scale agile software development is characterized by the need to coordinate dependencies within and between teams using various coordination mechanisms. Research on large-scale agile has identified and described many ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Intracranial aneurysms are balloon-shaped blobs on blood vessels inside the skull and are more brittle than the surrounding blood vessels, and can rupture, causing a stroke. To predict if an aneurysm is going to rupture, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Can ICTs make the world more peaceful? Introduction and Background: A more peaceful world represents conditions of dignity, equity, civility, and tolerance of diversity that have become elusive due to intractable ethnic ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This research delves into the potential of Graphcore's IPU AI-optimized architecture in the realm of High-Performance Computing (HPC). Focusing on solving complex challenges like sparse systems and irregular applications, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
ML models are widely used in real-world applications, but their increasing complexity has made them opaque black boxes, hindering their safe adoption in critical areas. This thesis explores Interpretable Machine Learning ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis investigates the design, implementation, and adoption of a Humanitarian Health Management Information System (H-HMIS) in a global medical humanitarian organization. The central question aims at understanding ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
We are biased to perceive patterns in random conditions: We see figures in clouds, recognize words within noise, or tend to set everything on a single color given the past sequence when gambling. While there are numerous ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Cybersecurity with machine learning has received widespread attention in education, research, and innovation in both the private and public sectors. Unfortunately, while essential for strong cyber security, offensive cyber ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis examines the practices of antibiotic use and develops a process-oriented approach to establishing a digitally mediated institution for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) data management in resource-constrained ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
To administer the Norwegian Cervical Cancer Screening program in accordance with national guidelines, the Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) utilizes routinely collected information on diagnostic exam types and corresponding ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
In the digital age, protecting our privacy has become paramount. This thesis delves into privacy and data protection within the realm of identity and access management, with a particular focus on biometric systems and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The main aim of this research is to study and develop new Ultra-Low Voltage and energy-efficient circuit techniques for low power iOT applications. In the digital domain, NP-domino logic technique is studied for relatively ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Distributed and parallel computing applications are becoming increasingly compute-heavy and data-driven, accelerating the need for disaggregation solutions that enable sharing of I/O resources between networked machines. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The current energy system is changing, mainly due to the rise of global energy consumption and the depletion of fossil energy sources. Therefore, promoting electric vehicles (EVs) and installing renewable energy resources ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The thesis focuses on investigating cardiac mechanics on a microscale. We consider mechanical processes applicable when zooming in from the heart to a scale where the individualcells are visible – and not so much zoomed ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Our findings can enable organizations to be evidence-based when selecting management practices to achieve a higher return on investments in IT. We found a positive association with the realization of benefits when (i) ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The assessment of the health of ecosystems is of great concern to gain insight into the impact of human activities.
The health of an ecosystem can be looked as the sum of the impact on organisms occupying this ecosystem. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The Internet has become an absolutely critical part of our infrastructure. We rely on it for everyday tasks. Paying for things. Entertainment. Talking to friends and family. Many simple things become difficult, annoying, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Access control plays a crucial role in providing security and privacy in e-Health systems. Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) is a fine-grained, dynamic access control model that has several advantages over the traditional ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Background: Software systems must continuously evolve to meet new business requirements. A modular software architecture is key to facilitating the evolution of the system. Many software development organizations also ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Partial orders and directed acyclic graphs are common data structures that arise naturally in numerous applications, and that define order between data points. Examples are orders of tasks in a project plan, transaction ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Privacy is a human right and an essential prerequisite for protecting fundamental human values, such as dignity and autonomy. However, people have difficulty understanding how their privacy is affected by the current ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
This thesis explores frugal digital innovation potentials for addressing health information systems challenges in resource-constrained settings. The main aim is to understand the technological, institutional, and social ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Today’s Internet is facing significant challenges as the number of the connected devices, applications, and the amount of traffic grow tremendously. The challenges are particularly related to the insufficient security and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Cancer is caused by genetic mutations which give cells growth advantages over their neighboring cells. The infinite number of possible mutation combinations makes no two cancers the same, and there is a pressing need to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Cyberattacks have the realistic potential of causing serious harm to humans, their assets and business processes. Cybersecurity is aimed at detecting, blocking and mitigating such threats and cyber threat intelligence is ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Privacy is recognized as a fundamental human right in the European Union, giving the right to a private life and associated freedom. In the midst of digital disruption, to have a meaningful balance between the fundamental ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Today, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are increasingly becoming an essential part of our daily lives. To provide customizations, CPS producers opt for Product Line Engineering (PLE) methodologies and develop CPSs by integrating ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is a technique for acoustic imaging and mapping of the seafloor. SAS systems are typically operated from autonomous underwater vehicles in a side-looking configuration. They can provide images ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Instructions, as they appear in a program’s text, dictate the behavior of singlethreaded programs. Unfortunately, our single threaded intuition does not fully carry over to multi-threaded environments. If the environment ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
This thesis is a study of standardisation within the global health field, investigating the potential role of digital platforms in facilitating such standardisation. It describes and analyses an e$ort of the World Health ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
When we think and feel, the nerve cells (neurons) in the brain communicate by means of electric messages. We can listen to these neural conversations by recording resulting electric and magnetic signals on the outside of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
To attain their goals, attackers have developed highly automated intelligence-driven attack capabilities. In contrast, defenders are still challenged by prolonged detection and response times due to their insufficient ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
The proliferation of technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) has led to rapid growth in the number of connected devices and the volume of data associated with IoT applications. It is expected ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
In the natural sciences, there are many examples of physical systems which can be modeled by differential equations, such as the flow of water through soil or the deformation of a bridge under load. By developing mathematical ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Blending spline constructions are generated by blending local geometry using a smooth basis function.
Compared with de facto industry standards used within CAGD, blending spline constructions are structurally complex.
However, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Health Information Systems (HIS) supports data managers in making informed decisions to allocate scarce resources. However, the benefits of HIS implementations in developing countries have been notoriously difficult to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
To memorize an experience, our brain is replaying associated sequences of neuronal activity in the hippocamus and associated regions. Since we remember only a fraction of our experiences, the brain must have a way to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
This thesis explores empowerment in two equally important contexts. First, patient empowerment in rehabilitation. Second, empowerment of people with Mild Acquired Cognitive Impairments (MACI) in Participatory Design (PD) ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
This thesis explores challenges associated with implementing standard health indicators in hierarchical organizations, and which approaches can be employed to mitigate these challenges. Hierarchical organizations are ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
Sleep apnea (SA) is a severe, common, and largely under-diagnosed sleep-related breathing disorder. In this PhD Thesis, we aim to reliably perform SA detection with low cost sensors and Machine Learning (ML). We train ML ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Continuity of health care has in recent years received increased attention. To achieve ‘seamless’ care over time and across service providers, and to reducing redundancy related to duplicated information in parallel systems, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
With more and more people getting older and needing extra medical attention, robots may be a way of helping them live independently at home longer. Robots in the home, however, can gather lots of personal information about ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Echocardiography is a key imaging modality to assess cardiac anatomy and function. In the past decade, high frame rate ultrasound imaging has emerged, and has allowed for studies of rapid phenomena that occur in the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Ontology-based visual query systems enable users to construct ad-hoc queries in a way that is intuitive, and which allows them to receive feedback directly from the system interface. In this query construction setting, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Design thinking has recently emerged as a powerful approach to innovation. Its ability to transform products, services, and organizations has been broadly discussed in the literature. However, how to implement the approach ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
With the advent of high-density multi-electrode arrays we are now able to measure the activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously, even at the sub-cellular level. However, next-generation devices introduce novel grand ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Accurate knowledge of the seabed is of vital importance for many human endeavors. Applications range from safe navigation to climate change models. Swath sonars are a key tool for efficient and high-resolution mapping of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among both genders and its incidence rate is continuously increasing. CRC starts from small non-cancerous growths of tissue on the wall of the colon ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
The thesis is positioned at the cross of Human-Computer Interaction (HRI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) fields, with Universal Design (UD) concepts and literature being ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Words of human languages change their meaning over time. This linguistic phenomenon is known as ‘diachronic semantic change’. Such shifts are of interest both for linguists and for NLP practitioners. One possible solution ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Robots are used in increasingly complex environments and need to be able to adapt to changes and unexpected events. This has traditionally been solved by changing the control of a robot, but having an adjustable body can ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Invasive monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) plays an essential role in diagnostics and surveillance of patients with brain injury and brain disease. While monitoring of mean ICP is a cornerstone of cerebrovascular ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Patients that undergo open-heart surgery are becoming older and more complex, as minimally invasive alternatives are becoming more common. These patients need closer monitoring after surgery as they are more susceptible ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
In today’s hypercompetitive market, companies are forced to be creative and innovate in order to survive. Digital technology has brought new possibilities for organisations as well as enabled thousands of start-ups to enter ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Mathematical models are routinely used to represent complex phenomena both in science and engineering. In combination with powerful computers, the models have provided insight in fields like physics, chemistry and astronomy. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Lately, there has been a convergence between open source and software platform approaches in the implementation of health information system solutions for developing countries. Open source software, comprise all software ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Devolution, which is becoming common in developing countries, refers to the creation of subnational governments that are substantially independent of the national level. Devolved entities have a clear legal status, recognized ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Through an interpretive, social constructivist approach, the research explores the production and use of information in the public health care domain of a low and middle-income country (LMIC). The research shows that taking ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
There is an immense proliferation in mobile health innovations in healthcare, also referred to as mHealth systems. These innovations have taken root in developing countries with ambitions to revamp healthcare service ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The thesis was motivated by the underutilisation of GIS in health in developing countries due to lack of long-term maintenance of geodata. Geodata maintenance is recognised as the central component of any operational GIS ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
A fair amount of research on smart home functions has aimed at assisting older adults in their everyday life. The implementation of these functions relies on the performance of activity recognition and prediction algorithms. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The main aim of the thesis is to use low-cost hardware components to create an environment-aware robot arm system capable of analysing its workspace using vision sensors and ensure collision-free operation. The objective ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The fast development of drones, miniaturization of broadband solid-state amplifiers, mixers, and software defined digital hardware increase the demand for compact RF and microwave systems at lower cost, light weight, easy ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Earlier studies have reported that there is a huge gap between customers and service providers in terms of the perceived quality of the service experience. This research addresses the delivery gap between service providers ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
We developed a complete holistic medical multimedia system for gastrointestinal (GI) tract disease detection and localization based on Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our DeepEIR system is designed ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a non-invasive imaging modality. Smaller and cheaper US systems make US imaging available to more people, leading to a democratization of medical US imaging. The improvements of general ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The complexity of the nervous system has made computational science an invaluable tool in order to understand how the nervous system functions. The overarching goal of this thesis has been to develop software tools to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Smart technologies take different, constantly changing, and complex forms – from personal objects we act and perceive with to environments and infrastructures within which everyday practices and experiences take shape. As ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
User participation in company’s innovation processes is an efficient way for companies to receive customer feedback and it is associated with value for customer-company relationship and for company’s innovation. Innovation ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Digitalization of the health sector is surrounded by major challenges and frequent turbulence also triggered by the collective ownership attached to public sector campaigns. The main reasons for the extensive challenges ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
A maritime simulator is a training and research platform for marine operations. Such simulators are frequently used to prepare marine operators for maritime industries in western Norway. Although maritime simulators were ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This thesis describes, discusses, and critically examines how Research through Design was used in an Interaction Design research project to produce design-relevant knowledge. The project focused on exploring and understanding ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
The study argues that state-led development reforms are the preconditions necessary for structural transformation and long-term, large-scale health information systems (HIS) digitalization in developing countries. However, ...