The use of public key cryptosystems range from securely encrypting emails and files to creating digital signatures for non-repudiation. The security of public key cryptosystems is based on computationally "unsolvable" ...

Privacy is often applied as an abstract concept in law and regulations. In everyday life, negotiating what information to share with whom, where, and at what times, and in what situations may be a challenge at home and in ...

For å forhindre smitte på et sykehus er det viktig med gode hygieneforhold og dermed er det også viktig med gode rutiner på renholdet. For å minke sannsynligheten for smitte er det nødvendig å holde ulike områder så rene ...

In this thesis we have explored the possibility that mutations occurring at DNA-level might coincide and even be the cause of particular gene fusions at the RNA-level, and have created methods of analysis, integrating both ...

In today's digital world cloud computing is key and it is growing. At the same time we are trying to maximize resource utilization. Running big, old general-purpose operating systems on virtual machines in the cloud is not ...

A robot moving in the home is a new experience for most people. Classifying the different ways that humans and robots move together can help in designing interactions. In this paper, we first put robots’ movements into two ...

By default, the Linux network stack is not configured for high-speed large file transfer. The reason behind this is to merely save memory resources. We may tune the Linux network stack by increasing network buffers size ...

The elderly in the future will use smart house technology, sensors, and robots to stay at home longer. Privacy at home for these elderly is important. In this exploratory paper, we examine different understandings of privacy ...

In this work, we create and make available two benchmark data sets for evaluating models of semantic word similarity for Norwegian. While such resources are available for English, they did not exist for Norwegian prior to ...

Computer networks research has been notoriously bad at reproducibility – a key aspect of making research results credible and convincing. This has been attributed to a lack of incentive for researchers to share the data ...

This thesis contains the description of the design and implementation of a basic framework for research on how plants behave in controlled environments. The framework is capable of controlling lighting with a pair of ...

Objective: A major goal in systems neuroscience is to determine the causal relationship between neural activity and behavior. To this end, methods that combine monitoring neural activity, behavioral tracking, and targeted ...

One of the actual problems that health workers in Malawi experience now is lack of unified information system which would handle all medical records management in points of care. Instead medical staff has to rely on obsolete ...

Under health reforms for establishing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in developing countries, it becomes imperative that health care should be made accessible to each and every citizen of the population at affordable ...

The filtered delay multiply and sum (F-DMAS) beamformer has recently been presented in the context of medical ultrasound image formation. This nonlinear beamformer produces images with improved contrast resolution and noise ...

One of the actual problems that health workers in Malawi experience now is lack of unified information system which would handle all medical records management in points of care. Instead medical staff has to rely on obsolete ...

One LBE to rule them all and to the deadline bind them

Emerging infrastructure-less network architectures such as WSNs consist of devices that perform packet processing in software. General-purpose network simulators do currently not possess models to simulate the intra-node ...

—Communication technology improvements have inspired the idea of connecting almost every things to the Internet: from home appliances, medical devices, and cars, to large infrastructures. A unified and secure network of ...

Etter sin introduksjon i det smidige manifestet (Beck et al., 2001) har smidige metoder blitt den foretrukne tilnærmingen for utvikling av IT-systemer. Metodene har endret systemutviklingsfaget etter at de har vist seg ...

The finite element method has for some time been a popular choice for approximating PDEs over a geometry domain. We usually use a FEM mesh that matches the geometry description. By FEM mesh we mean the mesh where we find ...

A multitude of weak memory models exists supporting various types of relaxations and different synchronization primitives. On one hand, they must be lax enough to allow for hardware and compiler optimizations; on the other, ...

Machine-learning based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems provide significant value to organizations because they can efficiently detect previously unseen variations of known threats, new threats related to known ...

For robots to handle the numerous factors that can afect them in the real world, they must adapt to changes and unexpected events. Evolutionary robotics tries to solve some of these issues by automatically optimizing a ...

Recent strategic design and management discourse has identified gaps in the current framing of design for organisations, specifically highlighting a lack of discussions related to emergent design cultures and calling for ...

Containerization has become an issue of increased importance to scientific computing and software engineering. The use of scientific software is increasing to advance science and technology. This software is developed by ...

This thesis presents the findings from the experiments on statistical machine translation (SMT) between Norwegian and English. First of all, we have extracted a parallel corpus for the language pair of Norwegian and English ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan man kan inkludere barn i en deltakende designprosess. Forskningsspørsmålet er formulert slik: «Hva skal til for at barn kan være med å designe?» Prosjektet sitt formål har vært å gi en ...

This paper focuses on the process of translating insights from a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)-based study, conducted on a vessel at sea, into a model that can assist systems developers working with simulators, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tingenes internett tegner et bilde hvor et stadig økende antall nye og eksisterende enheter blir tilkoblet og integrert med internett. Å bruke eksisterende internett infrastruktur gir økt tilgjengelighet og mulighet for ...

Background In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces errors for the image processing algorithms (used in image guided surgery), but also ...

Background Chromatin organisation affects gene expression and regional mutation frequencies and contributes to carcinogenesis. Aberrant organisation of DNA has been correlated with cancer prognosis in analyses of the ...

This Master’s thesis describes two case studies of mobile delivery robots operating in hospitals by moving equipment and goods between depart- ments where human employees work. Through contextual interviews with employees ...

In this master thesis, I explore how the creation of music can be facilitated to encourage curiosity and exploration through tangible interaction. The objective was to see how we can create new and rich musical experiences ...

Matching a segment of an environment with a virtual 3D representation of the environment can help with inspecting buildings and constructions without manual measurements. This thesis focuses on the research and design of ...

With the advent of Internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies, we are in the era of automation, device-to-device (D2D) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Automated vehicles have recently gained a ...

Det er et stort fokus på velferdsteknologi i helse- og omsorgssektoren som gjør at vi stiller stadig høyere krav til løsningene og deres omfang. Rapporter publisert av Helsedirektoratet (2015b, 2016) viser at brukerne av ...

Software design patterns are elaborate ways to deal with specific recurring issues in software development. They are re-usable templates, plans that can be applied in multiple situations to help, not only create more ...

Background: Teams in large-scale agile programs need to achieve collaborative software development. A proposed guide to collaboration is effective coordination. Large-scale agile software development is well accepted in ...

Solar energy is one of the most influenceable renewable resources. Photovoltaic(PV) system is widely used in converting solar energy into electricity. Therefore, monitoring the working state of PV systems in real-time to ...

The purpose of this project is to adapt Named Entity Recognition (NER) to the conflict research domain. The conflict domain is represented by data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). We want to build up the ...

A significant problem of using deep learning techniques is the limited amount of data available for training. There are some datasets available for the popular problems like item recognition and classification or self-driving ...

In a recent study we have encountered an unexpected result regarding the evolutionary exploration of robot morphology spaces. Specifically, we found that an algorithm driven by selection based on morphological novelty ...

Mental health is an important part of how we perceive our state of well-being. It is this state that help us tackle the positive and negative obstacles that life bring. When bad mental health becomes a problem, it can ...

This thesis addresses the topic of how an information system can be used in another domain than that of its origin. Previous research has emphasized how some software packages are designed to work across different organizations ...

Reinforcement learning is a research field concerned with automatically solving problems by trial and error. With each trial, a reinforcement learning agent extracts information about the problem. The agent can choose to ...

Vi undersøker om PRAM-modellen fra 1978 egner seg for å analysere kjøretiden til parallelle algoritmer på en generell, flerkjernet datamaskin med en tradisjonell arkitektur. Vi utfører teoretisk analyse av en håndfull ...

Designing to support diabetes self-management in Mitchells Plain, South Africa

This thesis investigates which technical and organizational factors that enable or constrain user participation in design when implementing a generic health information software. More specifically, it focuses on user ...

Sequencing projects are using paired-end reads to compensate for the relatively short length of the reads obtained by some sequencing technologies such as Illumina. To take advantage of the resulting paired-end reads, we ...

In a move to fight undernutrition, Rwanda's Ministry of Health has requested software for child growth follow-up over time. Improving the health status of the population is a priority, as undernutrition can cause permanent ...

Co-channel interference is the most significant degrader of quality of service in 802.11 Wi-Fi in dense residential areas. The number of observed neighbouring networks can grow as large as 20-30 networks in a modern apartment ...

Virtual reality technology has recently had a revival with new VR-hardware being introduced to the consumer market. This can be considered a turning point in the field as it has now become more accessible and affordable ...

Musicians often use tools such as loop-pedals and multitrack recorders to assist in improvisation and songwriting. While these devices are useful in creating new compositions from scratch, they do not contribute to the ...

Mental health is a growing concern in today's society. Mental disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression affects one in four adults at some point in their life, and is one of the leading causes of disability. This ...

When it comes to the analysis of biological sequences, alignment based methods have long been in the forefront for finding similarities between sequences, and in the classification of genetic sequences. Many of these methods ...

This master thesis explores how to make and use research products to mediate the state of the phenomenal body and generate new knowledge about their meaning for people with health challenges. Specifically, the thesis ...

Functional genomics assays produce sets of genomic regions as one of their main outputs. To biologically interpret such region-sets, researchers often use colocalization analysis, where the statistical significance of ...

Sample pooling enabled by dedicated indexes is a common strategy for cost-effective and robust high-throughput sequencing. Index misassignment leading to mutual contamination between pooled samples has however been described ...

Sleep apnea is a very common, yet severely under-diagnosed disorder characterized by reoccurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. If a breathing disruption causes the oxygen saturation in the blood to ...

The District Health Information systems 2 (DHIS2) is a highly flexible and customizable platform for building health management information systems, for many developing countries. The DHIS2, by being a platform, supports ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

Reinventing journalism by using the capabilities of the computer as the medium is called for to increasingly reach audiences both online and in mobile contexts. Based on several case studies, this thesis investigates ...