In this paper we present our participation in the Semeval 2014 task “Evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models on full sentences through semantic relatedness and textual entailment”. Our results demonstrate ...

This paper describes work on using Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) representations for the task of recognising textual entailment. I use entailment data from a SemEval-2010 shared task to develop and evaluate an entailment ...

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 ...

Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is a popular communication paradigm in the design of largescale distributed systems. A fundamental challenge in deploying pub/sub systems on a data center or a cloud infrastructure is efficient ...

Congestion occurs at a bottleneck along an Internet path; multiple flows between the same sender and receiver pairs can benefit from using only a single congestion control instance when they share the same bottleneck. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, we are continuously looking for more immersive video systems. Such systems, however, require more content, which can be costly to produce. A full panorama, covering regions of interest, can contain all the information ...

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 ...

The internet is becoming a marketplace for more and more products. With this in mind there will soon be possible to buy and sell any kind of product with component constraints, in the same manner we order a personalized ...

Psi-calculi are a parametric framework for nominal calculi, where standard calculi are found as instances, like the pi-calculus, or the cryptographic spi-calculus and applied-pi. Psi-calculi have an interleaving operational ...

In the field of lexical semantics, there have been many suggestions as to how the meaning of sentences and utterances should be represented. Such theories typically make use of traditional logic frameworks, and the various ...

As genomic data becomes more available, there is an increased need for analysis tools, such as the Genomic HyperBrowser. At the core of this tool is a data model known as GTrackCore – a module for storage and retrieval of ...

This thesis presents four case studies in which well known distributed algorithms are implemented in the abstract behavioral language ABS. These algorithms are the Dining Philosophers problem, the Paxos consensus algorithm, ...

Oppgaven analyserer og presenterer en praktisk løsning på problemet med å sikre personsensitiv data ved det Norske Kreftregisteret fra tilgang for Systemadministratorer som ikke er autorisert for slik tilgang.

NFC tags follow a range of standards and communication protocols. Support for communicating with these tags is limited, and few empirical studies investigate their performance. Therefore it is challenging to develop tags ...

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 ...

There are several strong indications for a profound connection between musical sound and body motion. Musical embodiment, meaning that our bodies play an important role in how we experience and understand music, has become ...

The thesis formulates effective strategies for delivery of streaming content for mobile users in resource-limited networks. We consider the entire end-to-end delivery path from the source to the destination. In the work, ...

Gotran provides a framework for working with systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs): Its primary goal is to increase the workflow efficiency of computational modelling in biomedical research. The ODEs, given by ...

PSMaude is a probabilistic extension of Maude that provides an expressive probabilistic strategy language to quantify the nondeterminism in probabilistic rewrite theories, allowing the user to specify different probabilistic ...

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 ...

Parallell programmering blir mer og mer viktig ettersom vi får flere prosesseringsenheter i en datamaskin. Derimot kan slik programmering være vanskelig, fordi det kreves ekstra administrativ kode for å sette i gang ...

This thesis covers the design, production and measurement of digital ultra-low voltage floating gate logic. The increasing demand for low-power electronics, fueled by the expanding market for portable devices and the growth ...

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 ...

Cloud computing is growing extensively, and in correlation, so is the number of users. Businesses look at the opportunity of increasing effectiveness and decrease cost, and are moving their infrastructure to the cloud. ...

Cloud environments at data centers in general have well established architectures for uninterrupted power, security, expansion opportunities and availability. However, the architectures are generally consuming much more ...

This thesis aims to explore the possibilities of communicating with swarms of micro virtual machines in a cloud environment. As the worlds data centers grow larger, so does the focus on energy consumption. This thesis ...

As the Internet today grows together with user and content the Internettraffic also increases. The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of themost popular applications used on the Internet today, and with thisit experiences network ...

Public cloud services have seen a massive growth in recent years as organizations have started to move their infrastructure to the cloud. This enables the organizations to take advantage of the dynamic infrastructure and ...

Mobiltelefonens omfang øker stadig og til tross for at bruken av NFC- og RFID-teknologi er på fremmarsj, er befolkningen ennå relativt ukjent med denne formen for fysisk interaksjonsdesign. Konseptet er i seg selv veldig ...

Most state-of-the-art parsers aim to produce an analysis for any input despite errors. However, small grammatical mistakes in a sentence often cause a parser to fail to build a correct syntactic tree. Applications that can ...

The aim of this master thesis is to explore the organization of a program within Digital Fornying, namely Labdata. The goal of Labdata is to introduce a common, standard, laboratory system for the South-Eastern Norway ...

The aim of this master thesis is to explore the organization of a program within Digital Fornying, namely Labdata. The goal of Labdata is to introduce a common, standard, laboratory system for the South-Eastern Norway ...

We consider the issue of how a flexible musical space can be manipulated by users of an active music system. The musical space is navigated within by selecting transitions between different sections of the space. We take ...

When developing an Application Programming Interface (API), there is often a need to use other libraries to implement some of the functionality. However, using an external library will make the API dependent on it. There ...

Oppgaven handler om å gi svar på smørmål om hvorvidt kan en programvare komponent hjelpe video applikasjoner til å tilpasse sin innhold i hensyn til sine omgivelser.

High-impact systems, notably systems used in health care, public infrastructure, traffic control, and finance, depend on a data management facility that can tolerate many types of failure. In addition, the prevalent adoption ...

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 ...

With growing interest in the creation and search of linguistic annotations that form general graphs (in contrast to formally simpler, rooted trees), there also is an increased need for infrastructures that support the ...

This thesis presents a bio-inspired color camera chip. It is the first focal plane array of photo-pixels that react to temporal color contrast of three different color spectra and thus this vision sensor emulates the color ...

Bakgrunn og motivasjon Autonome undervannsfarkoster (AUV-er) er ubemannede farkoster som uten kontinuerlig, menneskelig fjernstyring utfører oppdrag under vann. Det er ønskelig å gjøre dem adaptive, slik at de har evne til ...

This thesis focuses on making a platform independent application for reporting observations and positions of users/units moving out in the terrain. This application is intended for use on smart devices, i.e., smartphones ...

The OMS-group at the department of Informatics at the University of Oslo has from 2006 to 2012 had a NFR-project called the SWAT-project (Semantics-preserving Weaving – Advancing the Technology). This project was working ...

DNA sequencing technology such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is developing and revolutionizing the field of sequencing, allowing scientists to determine the sequence of nucleotides with an extreme speed. The task of ...

Background: The development of genetic classification software for laboratory engineers and laboratory doctors to aid in the diagnostic classification of patient genetic tests for hereditary diseases. The software needs ...

ABS is a language for modeling and simulating distributed systems. ABS has been in development at the University of Oslo for a number of years and has been the technical underpinning for a number of national and EU-wide ...

A low-power on-off-keying impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator (PG) intended for wireless-powered IR-UWB radio applications is presented. The proposed PG has high flexibility, the center frequency, output ...

This paper is concerned with a sustainable academic human-computer interaction design (HCID) practice. We are interested in examining what such practice could involve, and how to implement changes towards increased ...

Recently developed methods that couple next-generation sequencing with chromosome conformation capture-based techniques, such as Hi-C and ChIA-PET, allow for characterization of genome-wide chromatin 3D structure. Understanding ...

Popular de novo amplicon clustering methods suffer from two fundamental flaws: arbitrary global clustering thresholds, and input-order dependency induced by centroid selection. Swarm was developed to address these issues ...