Monitoring and Reporting are an integral part of IT infrastructure. Lack of single tool that covers all the need for monitoring in an organization has led to uses of different kinds of monitoring tools within an organization. ...

It has been estimated that the number of mobile users will pass the number of desktop internet users by 2014. The touch phone has become a central part of the ecology of devices and can no longer be overlooked, and the ...

In this thesis there has been construct a standard cell library in 90nm CMOS technology meant for scientific and/or medical research purposes. This library is meant to operate on a supply voltage of 300mV, for example in ...

Ved avbildning i grunne farvann med aktiv sideseende sonar er ytelsen begrenset av signal som har blitt reflektert flere ganger fra både havbunnen og overflaten. Dette er kjent som multipaths på grunn av alle de alternative ...

Participatory Design is a maturing design tradition, which has brought valuable lessons to design with users. By embracing the new areas of participation the tradition is now also moving into the digital spaces of Social ...

Customer involvement is an important, but challenging part of software development. Delays and failures can often be attributed to a lack of customer involvement. Different development methodologies provide different ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to compare the performance overhead of the virtualization infrastructures KVM and VMWare. All the experiments are carried out by using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) Operating System ...

There are currently over 2,000 completed prokaryotic sequences available. In these \caps{DNA} sequences the genes lay hidden. The genes codes for proteins that forms the foundation for all organisms. Several programs that ...

The common intrusion detection system is unable to determine the relevance of the alerts it generates because it lacks network and context awareness. A prototype was developed with the purpose of reducing the amount of ...

In this work I have explored and seen the effects of using Cartesian Genetic Programming to control a simulated quadruped robot. The control system is tested and explored using a variety of node functions, a larger and ...

Det er gjort mye forskning i forhold til design av grensesnitt for berøringsskjermer. Men smarttelefonene i dagens marked har innebygget sensorteknologi som muliggjør nye måter å interagere med mobiltelefonen. Målet med ...

Denne studien foreslår at terskelen for å drive innovasjon vil kunne senkes gjennom å gjøre ideagoraer, eller brukerinnovasjons-portaler, tilgjengelig på smarttelefoner. Nærmere bestemt ser oppgaven på hvorvidt ...

Innlogging har vist seg å være en stor barriere for brukere av informasjonssystemer. Dette er spesielt et problem for personer med nedsatt sensorisk, motorisk eller kognitiv funksjon. I verste fall kan disse personene ...

Hash functions are important cryptographic primitives which map arbitrarily long messages to fixed-length message digests in such a way that: (1) it is easy to compute the message digest given a message, while (2) inverting ...

Wireless technology and relative powerful mobile devices enable advanced applications, such as video streaming to be set up in areas without infrastructure. These complex networks are called Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs). ...

Modern graphical processing units (GPU) are powerful parallel processors, capable of running thousands of concurrent threads. While originally limited to graphics processing, newer generations can be used for general ...

The research presented in this thesis provides empirical data on how work practices and processes related to user experience (UX) are integrated with Agile software development processes in real-world projects. Agile ...

After decades of development in computer science, memory corruption bugs still pose a threat to the reliability of software. Automatic crash reporting and fuzz testing are effective ways of gathering information about ...

In this paper we present the Dance Jockey System, a system developed for using a full body inertial motion capture suit (Xsens MVN) in music/dance performances. We present different strategies for extracting relevant ...

The large variety of configuration management (CM) tools available makes it difficult for the customers to select the appropriate one for their needs. Thus this research investigated the users’ perception of CM tools in ...

Denne studien er basert på ønsket om å forstå hvordan man tilrettelegger for å la sluttbrukere delta aktivt i designprosesser. I lys av sentrale begreper og metoder innen brukerinvolvering i designprosesser, kombinert med ...

The complexity of developing distributed applications for High Performance Clusters can be daunting to non-professional programmers such as physicists and mathematicians. This thesis investigates the possibility of creating ...

The dynamics of fixed wing planes are well understood within the conventional flight envelope. The situation is different in the case of aerobatic maneuvers with a large angle of attack, such as perching and vertical hover. ...

The paper presents the interactive music system SoloJam, which allows a group of participants with little or no musical training to effectively play together in a ``band-like'' setting. It allows the participants to take ...

RDF data transformations are transformations of RDF graphs to RDF graphs which preserve in different degree the data content in the source to the target. These transformation therefore give special attention to the data ...

This paper presents challenges encountered in implementing a computerized name-based system for tracking information of pregnant women and children in rural clinics. Results indicate that the implementation of a computerized ...

The paper presents an analysis of the quality of motion data from an iPod Touch (4th gen.). Acceleration and orientation data derived from internal sensors of an iPod is compared to data from a high end optical infrared ...

Piwi proteins and Piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) have known functions in transposon silencing in the male germline of fetal and newborn mice. Both are also present in adult testes; however, their function here remains ...

The genes PRKACA and PRKACB encode the principal catalytic (C) subunits of protein kinase A (PKA) Cα and Cβ, respectively. Cα is expressed in all eukaryotic tissues examined and studies of Cα knockout mice demonstrate a ...

Touch- og multi-touch-teknologi er relativt nytt og spennende, og interaksjon med slik teknologi blir stadig et større utforsket område. Utvalget av touch- og multi-touch-enheter har eskalert de siste årene, og multi-touch-bord ...

The aim of our research is to assess image quality of prints without the involvement of human observers. The printing industry is continuously moving forward as new products and technologies are introduced to the market. ...

System administration is a complex field to manage and maintain. The system requires knowledge of operating systems and applications, as well as hardware and software troubleshooting. The state of the system is being ...

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The rapid development of network communication infrastructure enables networked multimedia streaming applications ranging from on-demand video streaming to highly interactive video conferencing. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies ...

The basic function of the Internet is to forward messages hop-by-hop towards their destination hosts. A single message has only one destination and the network does not provide a mechanism for delivering a message to ...

Security and interfering networks are challenges in wireless networks today. A security technique concerning shielding wireless signal using signal reducing or canceling material can be used to solve some of these issues. ...

Recently IPv6 has become a worldwide topic because of IPv4 address exhaustion, much is due to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the final IPv4 address blocks in February, 2011. IPv6 solves the ...

Ny forskning innenfor feltet trådløse sensornettverk åpner for nye og innovative produkter og løsninger. Biomedisinske anvendelser er blant områdene med størst potensial og det investeres i dag betydelige beløp for å bruke ...

While human-computer interaction design patterns are created to support the design of user interfaces, there is lack of substantial evidence to support these promises. This thesis reports two exploratory observational ...

Internett og internettjenester har i større grad blitt en vanlig del av våre liv. Bruk av slike tjenester innebærer i mange tilfeller at vi som brukere er nødt til å oppgi en del personlig eller sensitiv informasjon for ...

Software development effort estimation is a continuous challenge in the software industry. The inherent uncertainty of effort estimates, which is due to factors such as evolving technology and significant elements of ...

The problem addressed in this paper is that we want to sort an integer array a [] of length n on a multi core machine with k cores. Amdahl’s law tells us that the inherent sequential part of any algorithm will in the end ...

Nylig progresjon innen sekvenseringsteknologier muliggjør framskaffelse av høy-oppløselig genomisk data. Komparativ analyse av nevnte data er en kilde til videre innsikt i genetiske mekanismer, men feltet er lite utforsket. ...

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in educational settings has received increased attention, and it is a common belief that ICT may enhance students‘ learning and provide productive learning ...

We present an effect based static analysis to calculate upper and lower bounds on the memory resource consumption in a transactional calculus. The calculus is a concurrent variant of Featherweight Java extended by transactional ...

The authors present an experimental musical performance called Dance Jockey, wherein sounds are controlled by sensors on the dancer's body. These sensors manipulate music in real time by acquiring data about body actions ...

The thesis presents the implementation and assessment of two routing metrics used in RPL. The routing metrics evaluated in the thesis are the Hop Count Object and Node Energy Object. The ROLL working group has defined ...

Oppgaven undersøker om forhold som understøtter organisasjonslæring også bidrar til måloppnåelse. Med bakgrunn i sosiokulturell læringsteori diskuteres hva disse forholdene er. Disse forholdene er deretter undersøkt gjennom ...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present and discuss ideas about: • How to deal with the complexity of software projects by multi-view ...

Nowadays there is a jungle of practical software and numerical methods to solve the ordinary differential equations (ODE) related problems. This thesis aims to introduce a Python interface that collects a variety of such ...

Multimedia applications have a history of driving the demand for computational resources. In entertainment and digital arts, computer animation is popular, but also compute-intensive. We see that there is an increasing ...

The explosive deployment of wired and wireless communication infrastructure has recently enabled many novel applications and sparked new research problems. One of the unsolved issues in today’s Internet – the main topic ...

In this paper, a new project named Context Switching Reconfigurable Hardware for Communication Systems (COSRECOS) is introduced. The project started autumn 2009 and consists of applying reconfigurable hardware technology ...

This thesis is about analysis of motions for active music applications, where motions control music in real--time. Motion data is derived from accelerations measured in (Euclidean) 3D by one accelerometer. In order to ...

The paper presents research about implementing a full body inertial motion capture system, the Xsens MVN suit, for musical interaction. Three di erent approaches for streaming real time and prerecorded motion capture data ...

This paper explores the issue of designing standards within the setting of a district hospital system in the context of a Northern State in India. The aim is to develop a practical approach to the design and implementation ...

In the past ten years Web Services have positioned themselves to be one of the leading distributed technologies. The technology, supported by major IT companies, offers specifications to many challenges in a distributed ...

Devices capable of connecting to two or more different networks simultaneously, known as host multihoming, are becoming increasingly common. For example, most laptops are equipped with a least a Local Area Network (LAN) ...

Norges befolkning blir stadig eldre og de aller fleste ønsker å bo hjemme så lenge som mulig. Dette vil i større grad være mulig ved innføring av omsorgsteknologi. Som et ledd mellom det å bo hjemme og det å bo på sykehjem, ...

Computers today become more powerful through increased numbers of processors rather than clock speed increases as in the past. Exploiting this parallelism requires different software design strategies than do sequential ...

Det offentlige genererer og samler inn store mengder data og er av stor interesse for flere sektorer i samfunnet. Medier, bedrifter og privatpersoner kan skape nye tjenester, ny innsikt og økonomiske verdier basert på disse ...

We study three timed extensions of Petri nets. We demonstrate methods for transforming these types of Petri nets into Real-Time Maude programs. This lays the groundwork for a timed Petri net analysis tool in which these ...

Our empirical study falls under the domain of tablet computer use in a learning environment for higher education. We investigated various opportunities which employed iPad use in higher education. This included the reading ...

I denne masteroppgaven er temaet karriereendringer hos informanter innen kunnskapsintensive organisasjoner (sektorer) i Norge. Informantene har blitt fordelt på tre grupper; ”Olje”, ”Helse” og ”diverse”, etter hva slags ...

This master thesis is a part of my Master's degree at the University of Oslo. The thesis has been written at Simula Research Laboratory (SRL), where my supervisors Sven-Arne Reinemo and Tor Skeie work. Another advantage ...

Risk analysis is an important tool for developers to establish the appropriate protection level of a system. Unfortunately, the shifting environment of components and component-based systems is not adequately addressed by ...

We present a new approach to dialogue management based on the use of multiple, interconnected policies. Instead of capturing the complexity of the interaction in a single large policy, the dialogue manager operates with a ...

This thesis is a discussion about the concept of Technological Frames. The concept was applied at an usability test in order to investigate how users applied their frames in the sense making process of learning a system. ...

Today computer and network security are a big part of a system administrators life. New methods and applications appear and several makes the system administrator’s job easier. Gathering information is a big part of detecting ...

Background The iRefIndex consolidates protein interaction data from ten databases in a rigorous manner using sequence-based hash keys. Working with consolidated interaction data comes with distinct challenges: ...

More and more brick and mortar bank offices are closing their doors as the banks are moving their business online. The online bank, or Netbank, is becoming the most frequently used communication channel between the banks ...

In this thesis I present a study of a route planning system within the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), based on a case within the Accessibility field. A route planner client running on mobile phones ...

We build computer programs by creating named abtractions, aggregations of behaviour that can be invoked by referring to the name alone. Abstractions can be nested, meaning we can construct new, more powerful abstractions ...

Embedded systems, as for example communication and control systems, are being increasingly used in our daily lives and hence require thorough and systematic testing before their actual use. Many of these systems interact ...

Component-based system development causes challenges for security and safety as upgraded components may interact with a system in unforeseen ways. Due to their lack of modularity, conventional risk analysis methods are ...

The paper presents the SoundSaber - a musical instrument based on motion capture technology. We present technical details of the instrument and discuss the design development process. The SoundSaber may be used as an example ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a rapidly emerging research area because of their vast application vistas in real-world environments, as well as their rapid deployments at low cost and with high flexibility. In 2003, ...

File system is the very crucial part of all computer systems. It has been improved from local to network and now to distributed file systems. NFS, SAN, and NAS are becoming obsolete as they all pursue the traditional block ...

We propose a novel approach to the well-studied problem of making a nite, ordered sequence of decisions under uncertainty. Most existing work in this area concentrates on graphical representations of decision problems, ...

Background The immune contribution to cancer progression is complex and difficult to characterize. For example in tumors, immune gene expression is detected from the combination of normal, tumor and immune ...

Editors: Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Anders Tveit, Rolf Inge Godøy, Dan Overholt Table of Contents -Tellef Kvifte: Keynote Lecture 1: Musical Instrument User Interfaces: the Digital Background of the Analog Revolution ...

Simultaneous handling and synchronisation of data related to music, such as score annotations, MIDI, video, motion descriptors, sensor data, etc. requires special tools due to the diversity of this data. We present a toolbox ...

Background Metastatic progression due to development or enrichment of therapy-resistant tumor cells is eventually lethal. Molecular characterization of such chemotherapy resistant tumor cell clones may ...

Background This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of hedge detection, which involves identifying so-called hedge cues for labeling sentences as certain or uncertain. This is the classification ...

Background The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest approach to parallelisation ...

Background Elucidating the exact relationship between gene copy number and expression would enable identification of regulatory mechanisms of abnormal gene expression and biological pathways of regulation. ...

Background Increased understanding of the variability in normal breast biology will enable us to identify mechanisms of breast cancer initiation and the origin of different subtypes, and to better predict ...

We present a model for the surgery admission planning problem, and a meta-heuristic algorithm for solving it. The problem involves assigning operating rooms and dates to a set of elective surgeries, as well as scheduling ...

Background With the recent advances and availability of various high-throughput sequencing technologies, data on many molecular aspects, such as gene regulation, chromatin dynamics, and the three-dimensional ...

Background Transcription factors in disease-relevant pathways represent potential drug targets, by impacting a distinct set of pathways that may be modulated through gene regulation. The influence of ...

Signaleringsprotokollen Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) er en veletablert standard for Voice over IP (VoIP), men det finnes også aktører i VoIP-industrien som ikke følger denne standarden. I folks dagligtale er telefoni ...

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Real time multimedia workloads require progressingly more processing power. Modern many-core architectures provide enough processing power to satisfy the requirements of many real time multimedia workloads. When even they ...