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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Fractional calculus is the generalization of integer-order calculus to rational order. This subject has at least three hundred years of history. However, it was traditionally regarded as a pure mathematical field and lacked ...

The original presentation of Retinex, a spatial color correction and image enhancement algorithm modeling the human vision system, as proposed by Land and McCann in 1964, uses paths to explore the image in search of a local ...

The introduction of assistive technology for elderly no longer able to live independently has brought along a set of new ethical issues that deserves attention. Previous studies on similar topics mostly focus on certain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...