In this paper we present a method for studying relationships between features of sound and features of movement. The method has been tested by carrying out an experiment with people moving an object in space along with ...

The paper reports on the development and activities in the recently established fourMs lab (Music, Mind, Motion, Machines) at the University of Oslo, Norway. As a meeting place for researchers in music and informatics, the ...

The resource closure operator is a new concept within autonomic computing that differs from other approaches in this field in that it is not based on prediction. Earlier models have an assumption that its knowldege about ...

In this paper, we demonstrate systems based on Spartan-6 series FPGAs that provide full support for active partial run-time reconfiguration. We will summarize design factors for successfully applying run-time reconfiguration, ...

In this thesis, the design and modeling of two micromachined systems are presented. The two devices are a novel stacked disks resonator designed for radio frequency systems and a set of microphones with released membrane ...

Oppgaven omhandler problemstillingen: ”Hva er coachende lederstil og hvordan kan coachende lederstil påvirke mestring blant medarbeidere i kunnskapsintensive bedrifter?” Denne problemstillingen har jeg videre delt opp i ...

Tilgang til kollektivtrafikkinformasjon skjer via forskjellige kanaler. For synshemmede er noen av disse kanalene mindre tilgjengelige enn andre. Denne oppgaven undersøker informasjonskanalene som Trafikanten tilbyr sine ...

Separation of concerns is an important factor in the development of complex software systems. Being able to reason about system concerns in isolation and compose them to a whole are key elements for succeeding with the ...

Over the past decades, the volume of email exchange has increased dramatically and it has become one of the world’s most important means of communication. Due to the rapid increase in email message communication, the ...

iRefIndex provides an index of protein interactions available in a number of primary interaction databases. This index allows the user to search for a protein and retrieve a non-redundant list of interactors for that ...

The District Health Information System, version 2 (DHIS 2) is a complex health information system for collecting, analyzing and reporting health related data. DHIS 2 is free and open source and is implemented in many ...

Typically, cloud computing has been embraced by businesses. However, this master thesis introduces the personal cloud – a new cloud concept proposed to address personal needs. By bringing cloud computing into the personal ...

The work of this thesis has comprised addressing issues regarding design and development of composite Domain-Specific Languages, evaluation of DSLs with respect to frameworks, and meta modelling using components. COMPOSITE ...

Denne masteroppgaven gir en vurdering og sammenligning av flere datakriminaltekniske verktøy, med et spesielt fokus på to spesifikke verktøy. Det første kalles EnCase Forensics og er et kommersielt tilgjengelig verktøy som ...

State of the art image analysis techniques such as SURF feature detection and description are fused with muiltple view geometry theory in order to implement a Structure from Motion pipeline. The Structure from Motion ...

Når et IT-prosjekt settes i gang og et selskap får i oppdrag å utvikle et system for en kunde, er det ofte forbundet med stor risiko og usikkerhet. Det finnes svært mange eksempler på store IT-prosjekter som overskrider ...

En studie av hvordan Microsoft Norge bruker sine kommunikasjonsverktøy: Live Meeting, Communicator, Groove, Sharepoint og e-post. Sammenliknet med undersøkelser gjort i andre Norske bedrifter av deres bruk av kommunikasj ...

Denne masteroppgåva fordjupar seg i Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP) frå IEEE Std. 802.1ak-2007, og multicast i Ethernet. Det er gjort ein teoretisk studie rundt oversetjing frå IP versjon 4 multicast til Ethernet ...

Utviklingen har bidratt til at to verdener som har stått langt fra hverandre, nå kan møtes gjennom en felles plattform, til nytte for begge parter. På den ene siden er det myndighetene som utvikler juridisk regelverk i ...

Biomolecular interaction data is an increasingly important bioinformatics dataset used to examine biological systems. However, these data are spread across multiple databases and expressed in disparate data structures and ...

This thesis aims to examine radiation tolerance of low power digital CMOS circuits in a commercial 90 nm low power triple-well process from TSMC. By combining supply voltage scaling and Radiation-Hardened By Design (RHBD) ...

Abstract The M2M is a fairly new term and has been widely used in recent years.The capability and ability to build a network infrastructure of ubiquitous devices that performs automatic data transfer. The standard for ...

Oil and gas operators in Norway are daily reporting to the Norwegian authorities; they do this by submitting a report called "Daily Drilling Report". These reports are created individually by each of the operator. The ...

Central to Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is seeing models as objects that can be handled and organized into metamodel stacks and multi-model architectures. This work contributes with a unique way of doing consistency ...

The paper addresses possibilities of extracting information from music-related actions, in the particular case of what we call sound-tracings. These tracings are recordings from a graphics tablet of subjects' drawings ...

Background Several high-density oligonucleotide microarray platforms are available for genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection and microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation (array ...

Introduction Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-invasive lesion of the breast that is frequently detected by mammography and subsequently removed by surgery. However, it is estimated that about half ...

Background Bacterial genomes possess varying GC content (total guanines (Gs) and cytosines (Cs) per total of the four bases within the genome) but within a given genome, GC content can vary locally along ...

Background Quantitative real-time RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) is a highly sensitive method for mRNA quantification, but requires invariant expression of the chosen reference gene(s). In pathological myocardium, there ...

Introduction Mammographic density (MD), as assessed from film screen mammograms, is determined by the relative content of adipose, connective and epithelial tissue in the female breast. In epidemiological ...

Background Combining gene expression microarrays and high resolution magic angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy (HR MAS MRS) of the same tissue samples enables comparison of the transcriptional ...

Cross-layer interaction of Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of 802.11 MAC protocol and TCP transport protocol leads to two types of unfairness. In a mixed traffic scenario, short-lived TCP flows suffer from poor ...

This paper considers computing accurate solutions on the interval [0, 1000] of ordinary differential equations. This includes implementation of high precision ode solvers and methods to verify the accuracy of the computed ...

The 10th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA). 2010, Istanbul, Turkey. Mainstream sonars transmit and receive signals at the same frequency. As water is a nonlinear medium, a propagating signal generates ...

Moderne datamaskiner blir stadig mer parallelle. Det er nå vanlig at prosessorer har alt fra 2 til 8 kjerner. I tillegg blir det også mer vanlig å benytte skjermkort som en medprosessor for enkelte typer beregninger. Dette ...

This thesis reports the results from a literature review conducted on the topic of code smells and refactoring. Code smells are segments of the source code that display potential design issues. Refactoring is the process ...

Streaming media files over the Internet have become highly popular in recent years, and the requirements for network resources, and client and server hardware have grown. In this thesis, we argue that today’s unicast ...

The planning of constraint-based operations using evolutionary algorithms is an optimization problem that involves finding a chain of operations appearing in a valid left-right or right-left order. This type of planning ...

Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) have lead to increased e ciency in many types of organizations and industries, and more and more companies embrace the new opportunities and functionality found in IPS solutions. Because ...

Modular system development causes challenges for security and safety as upgraded subcomponents may interact with the system in unforeseen ways. Due to their lack of modularity, conventional risk analysis methods are poorly ...

Free software has matured well into the commercial software market, yet little qualitative research exists which accurately describes the state of commercial free software today. For this thesis, an instrumental case study ...

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) er en populær programvare-plattform som kjører programmer i Java bytecode. JVM støtter mange forskjellige programmeringsspråk med forskjellig tilnærming til typing, programmeringsparadigme og ...

Geographic information system (GIS) implementations have a tendency to fail in developing countries. This thesis seeks to explore whether a web based free/open source software (FOSS) development approach can improve chances ...

Search-based Software Test Data Generation is a field of research treating test input generation as a search problem. Search algorithms require that an objective function computes the quality of solution candidates. When ...

The paper presents a conceptual overview of how optical infrared marker based motion capture systems (IrMoCap) can be used in musical interaction. First we present a review of related work of using IrMoCap for musical ...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising technology and due to its multitude applications such as remote monitoring, personal medical monitoring and home automation, it has become one of the most interesting tasks in ...

This thesis presents a framework that expands upon the idea of a fully model-driven approach to editor development for Graphical Domain Specific Languages (DSL), originally put forth by the Graphical Modeling Framework ...

Tverrsektoriell elektronisk samhandling er viktig for offentlig sektor. Dette gjenspeiles i en rekke offentlige tiltaksplaner og strategidokumenter som er produsert det siste tiåret. Det har samtidig blitt synliggjort at ...

Quality of Experience (QoE) is a relatively new phenomenon. The main focus of this thesis has been to conduct a systematic literature survey of research done in the field of QoE over a ten year period. The method, developed ...

Data integration and knowledge representation in the oil and gas drilling domain are two challenges much work is focused upon. They are important real-world challenges to deal with, and the drilling domain has much to gain ...

Mange nettsider benytter bilder og grafikk i store mengder. Dette kan skape problemer for enkelte brukergrupper, for eksempel blinde og svaksynte. Det er et mål å utbedre denne situasjonen gjennom nasjonalt lovverk og ...

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic extension of the Creol modeling language, called PCreol, for which we give the operational semantics in Probabilistic Rewrite Logic. We give details on the implementation of a ...

For synshemmede kan mobilitet være et stort problem, ettersom de i liten grad er i stand til å transportere seg selv over lengre avstander. I praksis blir mange derfor avhengig av fylkenes transporttjeneste, eller venner ...

The rapid improvements in the availability of commodity high-performance components has resulted in a proliferation of networked devices, making scalable computing clusters the standard platform for many high-performance ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å besvare to problemstillinger. Den første er: ”Hvordan kan brukskvaliteten av feed2phone applikasjonen fra Favourite Systems forbedres?” og den andre er ”Hvordan kan brukskvalitet av push og ...

This paper presents a comparison of different configurations of a wireless sensor system for capturing human motion. The systems consist of sensor elements which wirelessly transfers motion data to a receiver element. The ...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) often suffer from disruptions and partitioning. Techniques to tackle these challenges such as caching and replication might result in data being widely dis- tributed in the network. For ...

The immense increase in the generation of genomic scale data poses an unmet analytical challenge, due to a lack of established methodology with the required flexibility and power. We propose a first principled approach to ...

We present a partial correctness proof system for ABS, an imperative, concurrent and object-oriented language which provides asynchronous communication model that is suitable for loosely coupled objects in the distributed ...

Even though shared-memory concurrency is a paradigm frequently used for developing parallel applications on small- and middle-sized machines, experience has shown that it is hard to use. This is largely caused by synchronization ...

The emergence of large and complex software systems increases the interest in model-driven engineering, as a way to lower the cost of development and maintenance of software. Models allow us to hide irrelevant details, ...

Efficient information sharing among rescue personnel is crucial for a successful rescue operation. If computer networks were actively used by the rescue personnel, it would allow for more efficient communication, and ...

Demand for mobile and personal communications is growing at a rapid pace, both in terms of the number of potential users and introduction of new high-speed services. Meeting this demand is challenging since wireless ...

The Service oriented perspective is emerging as an important view both for business architecture and IT architecture in the overall context of enterprise architectures. Many existing enterprise architecture frameworks like ...

The thesis explores how a web-based calendar and reminder service called BirthdayHero could help users improve how well they remember birthdays, anniversaries and other important events. A primary goal is to use the design ...

Massively Multiplayer Online Games have become a popular leisure activ ity and big business. They have also become targets for attacks beyond the personally motivated cheating attempts. The opportunity to make real money ...

Tidligere forskning på prototyper i brukertesting har hovedsakelig fokusert på sammenligningen av tradisjonelle high- og low-fidelity prototyper. Utviklingen av ny teknologi gir interaksjonsdesignere stadig mer avanserte ...

Identity overload and password fatigue is a common problem for people who engage in online activities. Federation can be a mitigation against password fatigue problem. Federated identity management aims at reducing this ...

Masteroppgåva prøver å besvara problemstillingar om val av testteknikkar for testing og feilsøking generelt, samt korleis Riksarkivet sitt SAS-program Arkade best bør testast/feilsøkast. Testteknikkar har innverknad på kva ...

Legacysystem er enno vanlege i programvareinstallasajonar omkring i verda. Dette gjeld serskilt i feltet health management information systems (HMIS) i utviklingsland. Legacysystem kostar tid og pengar og er dyre eller ...

Introduction: In mobile ad-hoc networks, nodes should function autonomously, and they should be able to adapt to their environment and any changes in it without any external intervention. For nodes to be able to adapt to ...

Two non-moving concurrent garbage collectors tailored for realtime audio processing are described. Both collectors work on copies of the heap to avoid cache misses and audio-disruptive synchronizations. Both collectors are ...

In 2002, the FCC released an unlicensed UWB frequency band from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz. This frequency band opens for new wireless applications. Most wireless applications need analog front-end for interfacing the antenna, ...

In this thesis we give a quick overview of Photon Mapping, and two articles on how this can be accelerated on the GPU. We then explore how the solution from one of the articles can be extended to find a variably sized ...

Today, virtualization is one focus of attention in computing community. The management of virtual machines become a big challenge for system administrators. In order to alleviate this problem, this project introduce a ...

Disaster recovery solutions for any system are complicated and in most cases expensive. Implementing DR solutions on service level is also not the best solution since it requires major efforts on each service. Remus, a ...

Denne rapporten gir en gjennomgang av den trådløse sensornettverkstandarden WirelessHART, samt implementeringen av det fysiske laget og store deler av datalinklaget på mikrokontrollerbrikken AVR RAVEN fra Atmel. Sensornettverk ...

Finding useful texture based features is often hard, even if there are clear patterns in the material at hand, but it will be a very useful contribution to any classification process as the texture might be uncorrelated ...

Oppgaven er en undersøkelse av i hvilken grad det er mulig å bruke semantiske notasjoner på nodene i et Bayesiansk nettverk for å bevise om modelleringen av nettverket er konsistent med en spesifikasjon gitt av en ontologi. ...

This thesis reproduces the properties of load interference common in many storage devices using resource sharing for flexibility and maximum hardware utilization. The nature of resource sharing and load is studied and ...

Digitale kameraer har tatt over store deler av amatør og profesjonell fotografering gjennom det siste tiåret, og interessen for digitale speilreflekskameraer vokser. Mange av de som kjøper kameraer er amatører, og kameraer ...

Cybercrime is a serious social problem. Data security threats affect not only large financial organizations and government department but also personal computer users. It is very common that laptops or USB drivers are ...

Utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven er at SolidGroup ønsket å få utviklet en mobil løsning for deres ERP-produkter. Løsningen skulle utvikles for SAP-systemer i form av en applikasjon på en mobil enhet. Formålet med denne ...

I de senere år har hardwareprodusenter, i stedet for å øke klokkehastigheten, duplisert kjerner på prosessorer. Konsekvensen er at prosessorer stadig får flere kjerner. Skjermkortleverandører har også sett potensialet av ...

In order to have a compatible device in a sensor node in wireless sensor network, the sensors have to be made in micro-size, low cost, low power consumption and high performance. By using CMOS-MEMS technology, the micro ...

Service oriented architectures have become very popular the last few years. The abstraction of computer systems into a service paradigm bring many new solutions, both for cross business processes to aid interoperability ...

As computers are steadily gaining entry to places of learning, people seek to use them to the fullest. Not only can they be used as an instrument toward gaining knowledge and experience, they can also take an active role ...

Volume rendering is a well known technique for visualizing volumetric data, and is commonly used in many areas of science. In four dimensional cardiac ultrasound (3D + time), volume rendering is used to present the user ...

Most high-level program languages have their own compiler to interpret and compile source code, and maybe execute it in the special hardware environment. It is, however, important to understand the principles and functions ...

Event-Driven Business Process Management (EDBPM) is an emerging discipline that combines modern Business Process Management (BPM) solutions with the techniques of Complex Event Processing (CEP), providing situational ...

Background Eschericia coli AlkB is a 2-oxoglutarate- and iron-dependent dioxygenase that reverses alkylated DNA damage by oxidative demethylation. Mouse AlkB homolog 1 (Alkbh1) is one of eight members of the newly discovered ...

Activation of oxidative stress-responses and downregulation of insulin-like signaling (ILS) is seen in Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) deficient segmental progeroid mice. Evidence suggests that this is a survival response ...