Pathogenic bacteria continuously encounter multiple forms of stress in their hostile environments, which leads to DNA damage. With the new insight into biology offered by genome sequences, the elucidation of the gene content ...

Background High-density tiling microarrays are a powerful tool for the characterization of complete genomes. The two major computational challenges associated with custom-made arrays are design and analysis. Firstly, ...

Specific guanine-rich sequence motifs in the human genome have considerable potential to form four-stranded structures known as G-quadruplexes or G4 DNA. The enrichment of these motifs in key chromosomal regions has suggested ...

Denne oppgaven omhandler brukermedvirkning ved utvikling av programvareapplikasjoner. Vi er særlig interesserte i hvordan dette utspiller seg når flere ulike målgrupper deltar i medvirkningen. For å finne ut av dette har ...

Oppgaven presentere måter å bruke mobiltelefon med bluetooth og NFC teknologier for å gjøre opplevelsen av å se på TV enklere. Oppgaven ser og på måter å tilby et mer personlig TV program ved bruk av interesser i form av ...

Oppgaven tar for seg muligheter og utfordringer knyttet til bruk av digitale verktøy i barnehagen. Studien er gjennomført som et praktisk prosjekt i en norsk barnehage i 2007-2008 med fokus på en kvalitativ tilnærming. ...

Identifying and systematizing software practitioners’ perceptions of a problem in development projects is an important first step in searching for a solution to the problem. Moreover, different tiers in an organization ...

Masteroppgaven tar for seg fenomenet langdistanseledelse og hvordan dette utøves i praksis. Studien tar utgangspunkt i et nordisk forsikringsselskap. Begrepet langdistanseledelse er et relativt nytt begrep, og brukes mest ...

This thesis covers a problem which companies faces every day: Finding a Storage Area Network(SAN) solution that tackles the rising demands from users and their software and when working with virtualization environments. ...

Sanntidsspill (RTS) er utfordrende testplattformer for algoritmer som tar intelligente beslutninger i komplekse omgivelser. Interaksjon med disse spillene skjer i form av beslutninger som tas mens spillet foreløper. Å ...

Semantic Web Services (SWS) has been an active research topic in the recent years. It aims to achieve automatic Web service discovery, and invocation and composition of services, by adding semantics to the services, which ...

I den senere tid har mobile tjenester blitt innført som en støtte for trafikantene ved planlegging av sine kollektivreiser. Men av ulike grunner har ikke oppslutningen hos trafikantene vært spesielt stor for de mobile ...

During the past ten years digital technology has entered the world of mammography. It has not taken completely over, however, because there are still disagreements as to whether the digital technology is as good as the ...

I Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellittbilder over sjø opptrer to typer prosesseringsfeil som gir artefakter i bildene: scallop og gain-shift. Scallop gir hyppige horisontale striper i bildene. Gain-shift gir noen få ...

The interest and use of open source software and methodology has gained an increasing amount of commercial attention, and we are currently witnessing that established proprietary software firms are taking a step further ...

This master thesis is based on the author’s participation in an open source software based project named DHIS2. The project is developed for the organisation named Health Information System Program (HISP). In the project ...

I have studied how user generated content and interaction design work together on large commercial Web sites to enable users to acquire knowledge from large bodies of information, and to make informed decisions based on ...

Studien har to deler. Del en omfatter simulering av bilder fra QuickBird satellitten, med deteksjon av kjøretøy i slike blder og analyse av egenskaper ved kjøretøysegmenter versus geometrisk oppløsning i bildene. Ved å ta ...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an emerging important research area. The variety in and number of applications is growing in wireless sensor networks. These wireless sensor nodes are tiny devices with limited energy, ...

Mobil-TV er en teknologi som det er en enorm interesse rundt, men som man ennå ikke vet om kommer til å bli en stor suksess. Til tross for dette, så er det flere teknologier og standarder for mobil-TV. De forskjellige ...

In this thesis we have investigated a selection of promising scheduling techniques for periodic broadcasting. As ISPs are upgrading their networks to support multicast, they see the opportunity to use less resources to ...

Service-Oriented Architectures are today’s favorite answer to solve interoperability issues. As various kinds of systems can be used to implement Service-Oriented Architectures, the recent trend is to apply principles of ...

The communication of risk in health is a diffcult task, with numerous pitfalls. It's important to pay attention to the environment in which the risk is communicated. By doing so, you can attempt to take control of the ...

Software engineering (SE) practitioners should consider the empirical validity of claims set forth by SE tool providers in correspondence with an Evidence-based Software Engineering approach, but to do so, empirical evidence ...

New technology, especially mobile phones and the Internet, have an increasing influence on society. These new technologies are utensils that are becoming progressively more ubiquitous and accessible for the masses. This ...

This thesis considers the administration of virtual machines on IBM mainframes running z/VM.Asolution for administrating z/VM through a Linux VMrunning on a custom designed z/VM architecture is developed and implemented. ...

This thesis describes a study performed in an industrial setting that attempts to build predictive models to identify parts of a Java system with a high fault probability. The system under consideration is constantly ...

The aim of this master thesis is to examine how Semantic Web technology can be used in the field of Human Resource Management, more specifically how it can be used to improve areas of online job recruitment, focusing on ...

Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDIs) are planar hybrid systems, whose dynamics are defined in terms of constant differential inclusions, one for each of a number of polygonal regions partitioning the plane. The reachability ...

This thesis is part of a project called PanelCheck which involves creation of a software tool. A statistical method called Manhattan plot has been implemented in this software tool, which is applied for visualization of ...

Verifying the identity of a user, usually referred to as user authentication, before granting access to the services or objects is a very important step in many applications. People pass through some sorts of authentication ...

People who are seeking medical advice and care often find it difficult to obtain reliable information about the quality and competence of health service providers. While transparent quality evaluation of products and ...

The 2nd Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of Contract-Oriented Software (FLACOS’08) is held in Malta. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language-based solutions ...

Current trends in communications technology favour modular, reusable service components delivered over converged networks. This service oriented approach gives rise to a new breed of composite, personalised services, but ...

This master thesis proposes a design for distributing the generation con- troller, a component in the FAST search architecture. The purpose of the generation controller is to ensure that the system maintains a consistent ...

UML sequence diagrams partially describe a system. We show how the description may be augmented with exceptions triggered by the violation of timing constraints and compare our approach to those of the UML 2.1 simple time ...

The work reported here is concerned with the definition of a logic (which we call CL) for reasoning about legal contracts. The report presents the syntax of the logic and the associated semantics. There are two semantics ...

This thesis presents a new multiple-valued encoder with re-configurable radix. The proposed circuits utilize serial cyclic D/A conversion and semi floatinggate (SFG) inverters for compact design and a high functional ...

Background Computational discovery of motifs in biomolecular sequences is an established field, with applications both in the discovery of functional sites in proteins and regulatory sites in DNA. In recent ...

Evolvable hardware (EHW) is a method where hardware is designed and/or modified automatically by optimization algorithms called evolutionary algorithms (EAs). The results so far are promising but somewhat limited partly ...

Absolute tumor DNA copy numbers can currently be achieved only on a single gene basis by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). We present GeneCount, a method for genome-wide calculation of absolute copy numbers ...

Background Microarray Comparative Genomic Hybridization (array CGH) provides a means to examine DNA copy number aberrations. Various platforms, brands and underlying technologies are available, facing the ...

Background Interaction data for a given protein may be spread across multiple databases. We set out to create a unifying index that would facilitate searching for these data and that would group together ...

Background Oligoarrays have become an accessible technique for exploring the transcriptome, but it is presently unclear how absolute transcript data from this technique compare to the data achieved with ...

The dissertation identifies and discusses impact of a model-based approach to teaching and learning introductory object-oriented programming both for practitioners and for computer science education research.Learning to ...

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks consisting of autonomous nodes that exist in an infrastructure-less environment. There are no centralized servers and no hierarchy of nodes. The Domain Name System (DNS) ...

Abstrakt: Å få gode indikatorer på prestasjons- og ferdighetsnivåer blant programvareutviklere har mange nyttige anvendelser, blant annet i rekrutteringsøyemed, opplæring og ressursplanlegging i ITprosjekter. Slike indikatorer ...

Oppgaven ser på hva identitets og tilgangskontroll(Identity and Access Management(IAM)) er, og forutsetninger som må være på plass før virksomheter begir seg ut på å innføre en løsning. Videre ser oppgaven på hvilke ...

The primary goal of this thesis is to make simple approaches to implement selfmanagement functions based on the regular administration tools as a way to simplify tedious tasks for the system administrators. In order to ...

GIS is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes that are spatially referenced to the earth. A GIS integrates hardware, software and data. It is used in a wide range of sectors, ...

Denne studien undersøker hva slags betydning filtrering har på en global infrastruktur som Internett, og hvordan filtreringsmetodene brukes i praksis for individer, private aktører og myndigheter i utvalgte land. Ved å se ...

Oppgaven gikk ut på å nyutvikle en plattformuavhengig løsning av et konstruksjons- og simuleringsverktøy for digitale kretser i Java. CAD-verktøyet er beregnet for studenter i undervisningssammenheng. Per i dag finnes ...

Prosjektarbeid er alltid utfordrende med tanke på samarbeid, kommunikasjon, deling av informasjon og så videre. Dagens arbeidsliv er i større grad preget av prosjektarbeid enn tidligere. Ofte ser vi at prosjektarbeidet ...

To make appropriate decisions regarding medical interventions and financial and human resource allocation in the public health sector, timely, valid and complete health data are important, as resources need to be allocated ...

Traditionally, genome browsers have been targeted at researchers in biology and medicine. The goal of this project is to explore a novel utilisation of such software. Can a genome browser be used for educational purposes ...

Fomålet med denne oppgaven er å identifisere problemløsningsmetoder og strategier brukt av informatikk studenter under prosessen av vedlikehold oppgaver på en ukjent applikasjon i Java. Deretter er effektene av utførsel ...

Creol is a high-level, object-oriented language for distributed systems, featuring active objects and asynchronous method calls. In this paper we present a behavioral interface speci cation language over communication trace ...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems have been studied a lot in the last ten years. They have many promising features like array gain, diversity gain, spatial multiplexing gain, interference ...

Probability often plays a major role in the specification of computer systems, for a number of reasons. Probabilistic requirements are, of course, essential for specifying applications such as games of chance or probabilistic ...

Software applications dependent on frequent user interaction need user interfaces with a high degree of usability. However, creating high usability user interfaces is a challenging task for software developers. The results ...

Robots become more and more common in our every day lives as technology develops. Robots are normally actuated by pneumatics, hydraulics or servo motors. These technologies are mature and widely used, but other less commonly ...

In numerical science it is often more difficult to develop parallel applications than equivalent sequential applications. A reasonable strategy to many is first to develop a sequential version, then make it parallel. Diffpack ...

Oppgaven tar for seg bruk av informasjonssystemer i utrykningssituasjoner (ambulanse). Gjennom delvis medvirkende observasjon (cirka 270 timer), er det fors�kt definert spesielle krav som kan stilles til systemutvikling ...

In the recent years the shared services concept has become an integral part of business. These shared services can be in the form of information technology, engineering and lot more. Service providers spent huge amounts ...

Cluster became main platform as parallel and distributed computing structure for high performance computing. Following the development of high performance computer architecture more and more different branches of natural ...

The objective of the SICS Java Port Project is to create tools and methodology to translate a large financial software application from IBM VisualAge for Smalltalk to Java. My main motivation for this report is to present ...

In 2001 and 2002 a wave of corporate and accounting scandals became known to the public. As a direct consequence of these frauds the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and ...

With the multiplicity usage of computer networking devices called router, it is becoming common practice for everybody who would like to be online making this technology be the most responsible for allowing one of the 20th ...

Opera Mini TM is a mobile web browser. It was developed for mobile phones incapable of running regular web browsers and released globally in January 2006. It has gained great popularity and can be downloaded free of charge ...

With the increasing use of NFC and RFID technology it is important to look at the security, both for the user and for the system owner to see that the system is reliable. NFC is a standard inheriting some of the RFID ...

Målet med denne oppgaven har vært å forsøke å gjenskape lignende studier med en nyere type robot som er mer tilgjengelig og billigere enn de mer vitenskapelige robotene. Et annet mål har også vært å forsøke dette med et ...

Educational computer games have been around for a long time. However, the work that is being done on educational computer games is mainly focused on an elementary school level. We feel that it is high time that educational ...

Snapshot Isolation er en multiversjonsprotokoll for samtidighetskontroll, som er attraktiv fordi den tilbyr et isolasjonsnivå som unngår mange av de vanligste samtidighetsfenomenene. I tillegg tillater Snapshot Isolation ...

Today, most literature about services in system administration is about conventional services like email servers. How could one monitor and analyze a scenario where the service in question is a game server? As these two ...

The master thesis is about the implementation of a mobile personal digital assistant in four home based care units in Almesund and Bakkøy in Norway. The research questions have come up as a result of an inductive process. ...

The outset of this thesis was to develop a solution for collecting separately deployable web modules into one seamless web application, a portal. The case study is the District Health Information Software 2, a modular web ...

Denne oppgaven omhandler innføringen av Health Information System (HIS) på Zanzibar. Jeg har fokusert på prosessen med utvikling og innføringen av IT-systemer innen helsevesenet på Zanzibar. Jeg har studert forståelsen og ...

Oppgaven sammenligner partisjonering i versjon 7 og 8 i IBM's relasjonsdatabase, DB2. Innledningvis forklares det hva, hvorfor og når partisjonering bør/kan brukes. Det gis også en teoretisk fremstilling av versjon 7 og ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg energiutfordringer og energihøsting innen trådløs identifisering (RFID). Historie, energikilder, kretsimplementasjoner og målinger blir presentert. En lav-effekt ladningspumpe produsert i 90 nm ...

Med datalagringsdirektivet må alle data forbindelser lagres. Med nettverksprosessorer kan dette løses. Alle pakker blir behandlet med nettverksprosessorer og en StrongARM variant, som heter XScale, sender de ferdige ...

Interactive multimedia traffic is usually a stream of packets containing voice, video a combination of these. Because of the user interaction, there is a high vulnerability to latency, jitter and packet loss. In this thesis, ...

This thesis examines subthreshold operation for reducing power consump tion and protection against power analysis attacks of digital CMOS circuits. Subthreshold operation is considered the most efficient way to reduce the ...

Problemstillingen i denne oppgaven er todelt: (P1) Hvordan kan man p� best mulig m�te sikre autentisiteten til elektroniske dokumentbevis? (P2) Kan man gj�re noe spesifikt for � ivareta personvernhensyn i m�te ...

Det ble i denne oppgaven designet en arkitektur for evolusjonær maskinvare basert på intern rekonfigurering av FPGA. Til å utføre intern rekonfigurasjonen av FPGA-en ble internal configuration access port (ICAP) brukt. ...

In the last couple of years, developers have started implementing more complex features utilizing computer networks in interactive applications, for example, advanced and large scale multiplayer modes in games. In addition, ...

I denne oppgaven har vi sett på mobile teknologier, og muligheten for ved hjelp av teorier og metoder fra fagfeltet HCI å utvikle en applikasjon for mobile enheter som synliggjør informasjon for brukere av kollektivtrafikk. ...

This thesis looks into strategic managment of IT in the Norwegian Health Care Sector, namely the state owned hospitals. The thesis concerns the period 2002-2008, that is, it starts with the Health Reform when the ownership ...

Rindex er et forskningsprosjekt ved gruppen Objektorientering, modellering og språk ved Institutt for Informatikk (IFI) ved Universitetet i Oslo (UiO). Rindex står for RAM index og er en klient-/serverplattform laget for ...

Russisk ordrekkefølge og analyse av den innenfor formalisert syntaktisk teori ved hjelp av datalingvistiske verktøy.

Studiet som er presentert i denne masteroppgaven handler om å identifisere årsaker for valg av strategier hos profesjonelle systemutviklerer, samt registrere hvilken problemer disse utviklerer hadde mens de utførte noen ...

The ISO 15926 standard was designed to facilitate the integration of the life-cycle data of oil and gas production facilities. The standard provides a common dynamic reference data library (RDL), which gives precise ...