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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Examining the benefits of adding syntactic information to a system for solving a given question answering task.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

71 000 mennesker i Norge har i dag en demenssykdom. Inkluderer man de nærmeste pårørende kan man anslå at så mange som 300 000 mennesker er berørt. Forventet befolkningsutvikling i Norge gjør at antall personer med ...

The European gas market is a huge network of producers, consumers, and various forms of gas processing and storage. To understand this market fully, all of these factors have to be explored and explained. When the gas ...

The ever growing network traffic complexity has brought new threats and vulnerabilities that can affect our day to day activities. This lead to high demand for network monitoring and detection system to tackle the emerging ...

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 ...

Computer security specialists work every day solving security problems and handling intrusions. The experts try to avoid new security threats, but the intruders are trying to find new penetration methods and sophisticated ...

Publish-subscribe paradigm of communication is one of the most popular and powerful models for services on the Web. Given the increase in popularity of P2P systems and the benefits of them over centralized versions,researchers ...

Humans are social by nature and they have a need to discuss and collaborate with others (Sharp et al., 2007). Group work is an essential practice in work and educational settings and is required when an assignment is too ...

A software component is a reusable, high-level software entity with provided and required interfaces. Software components can be composed together in order to build software systems. When modeling component-based software, ...

As part of a more general effort on the design of a combined modeling and programming language, support for modeling and programming with state machines has been investigated. While earlier approaches have represented ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis presents an intelligent tutoring system that enables students of Chinese to acquire active knowledge of words and grammatical constructions. The system relies on a Bayesian, linguistically motivated cognitive ...

In this master thesis we discuss challenges in creating visualizations with the goal of enhancing discussions in group learning environments. We focus on two types of task to visualize. The first task type involves visual ...

A framework and process that explains how to perform security regression testing for web applications. This paper discusses and proposes a framework based on open source tools that can be used to perform automated security ...

The underwater acoustical communication channel is a harsh environment, making it tough to transmit data error free. Due to high absorption of electromagnetic energy, neither radio nor optics are suited for long range ...

Domain names were developed to ease the challenges that human beings face in remembering large sets of numbers such as IP addresses. It is therefore common practice to name servers based on the services they provide or the ...

Video processing is a resource demanding task. While todays high–end machines are able to process and encode video at reasonable speeds, they are usually not capable of doing this in real–time. ...

Computer networks are growing in complexity and size, making it challenging to keep an inventory of computers and their software operating in a network. Traditional solutions to this problem, like active scanning or soft- ...

QoS support for videostreaming over dynamic wireless network is a research field that has gained a lot popularity for the past decade. In this thesis we analyze in which extent we are able to provide QoS support for ...

This paper introduces concepts, theories, and patterns related to cross-platform development on mobile devices. It discusses what applications programmers can develop, what devices are important to target, and how to develop ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver et introduksjonsarbeid innenfor optimalisering av video enkoding av 3D-miljøer ved hjelp av informasjon tilgjengelig i rendering pipelinen. Denne masteroppgaven foreslår at videoendoding-steget ...

Background: Marker based motion capture (MBS) is the preferred method for 3D motion analysis in sports injury prevention. There is a continuous search for more efficient and low-cost methods that can produce equally reliable ...