There is a growth in the number of solar panel installations in residential homes in Norway, and the process of installing has become effortless with the assistance of various actors. However, the experience of having solar ...

This paper presents the Norwegian Review Corpus (NoReC), created for training and evaluating models for document-level sentiment analysis. The full-text reviews have been collected from major Norwegian news sources and ...

KRAS mutation is a well‐known marker for poor response to targeted treatment and patient prognosis in microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC). However, variation in clinical outcomes among patients wild‐type ...

We examine how robot movement can help human-robot interaction in the context of a robot helping people over 60-years old at home. Many people are not familiar with a robot moving in their home. We present four movement ...

Ontologies are a powerful mechanism to structure domains of interest. They have successfully been applied in medical domain, industry and other important areas. Despite the simplicity of ontological vocabularies that consist ...

By offering high sequencing speed and ultra-high-throughput at a low price, Illumina next-generation sequencing platforms have been widely adopted in recent years. However, an experiment with multiplexed library could be ...

Individually personalized computational models of heart mechanics can be used to estimate important physiological and clinically‐relevant quantities that are difficult, if not impossible, to directly measure in the beating ...

Background: Molecular indicators of colorectal cancer prognosis have been assessed in several studies, but most analyses have been restricted to a handful of markers. We aimed to identify prognostic biomarkers for colorectal ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common but severely under-diagnosed sleep disorder that affects the natural breathing cycle during sleep with the periods of reduced respiration or no airflow at all. It is our long-term ...

With this contribution we present some recent developments made to Rucio, the data management system of the High-Energy Physics Experiment ATLAS. Already managing 300 Petabytes of both official and user data, Rucio has ...

In this paper we investigate how data openness can be made possible in communal settings. We adopt a utility perspective that foregrounds the use value of data, conceptualizing them as “goods.” On the basis of this ...

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 ...

This study examines modalities of generating and providing automated formative feedback to Computer Science undergraduate students ’and their experiences with the system and the received feedback. A software for automated ...

In this paper, we empirically evaluate the utility of transfer and multi-task learning on a challenging semantic classification task: semantic interpretation of noun--noun compounds. Through a comprehensive series of ...

We present ctrlTCP, a method to combine the congestion controls of multiple TCP connections. In contrast to the previous methods such as the Congestion Manager, ctrlTCP can couple all TCP flows that leave one sender, ...

Knowledge Graphs have recently gained a lot of attention and have been successfully applied in both academia and industry. Since KGs may be very large: they may contain millions of entities and triples relating them to ...

Accessing and utilizing enterprise or Web data that is scattered across multiple data sources is an important task for both applications and users. Ontology-based data integration, where an ontology mediates between the ...

The geometric model, Higher-dimensional automata (HDA), is a useful and general model for non-interleaving concurrency. In a non-interleaving approach to concurrency, more than one event may happen concurrently and one ...

Wireless multicast suffers from severe packet loss due to interference and lack of link layer retransmission. In this work, we investigate wether the most recent Forward Error Correction (FEC) draft is suitable for real-time ...

Fragmentation in heterogenous and widely distributed HISs (Health Information System) is a global problem and is still challenging to make them interoperable. One of the key factors includes the lack of standardization ...

Today, many users of multimedia applications are surrounded by a changing set of multimedia-capable devices. However, users can move their running multimedia applications only to a pre-defined set of devices. Application ...

Background: Digital innovations have evolved over the last 15 years to support health activities, and their introduction in low- and middle-income countries has shown the potential to catalyze gains in health systems and ...

As the application domains of sampling-based motion planning grow, more complicated planning problems arise that challenge the functionality of these planners. One of the main challenges in the implementation of a ...

Motivation: Many high-throughput methods produce sets of genomic regions as one of their main outputs. Scientists often use genomic colocalization analysis to interpret such region sets, for example to identify interesting ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the ever growing server density and infrastructures encompassed in data centers, heat generation and power dissipation has increased drastically. This has brought a serious impact on system performance and reliability. ...

Existing bicycle locks do not meet current security requirements. A bicycle is for many people a big investment that very often ends up like an inventory in the entrance, storage room, bedroom or living room. However, the ...

The paper reports our participation in the shared task on word sense induction and disambiguation for the Russian language (RUSSE’2018). Our team was ranked 2nd for the wiki-wiki dataset (containing mostly homonyms) and ...

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 ...

One of the primary characteristics of robots is the ability to move autonomously in the same space as humans. In what ways does movement influence the interaction between humans and robot? In this paper, we examine how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

In this work we present the Talk of Norway (ToN) data set, a collection of Norwegian Parliament speeches from 1998 to 2016. Every speech is richly annotated with metadata harvested from different sources, and augmented ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

—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 ...

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 ...

Post translational modifications (PTMs) are chemical modifications to proteins that regulate many protein functions. Recently, PTMs found on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) bound epitopes specific to cancer cells have become ...

In this thesis, we aim to find suitable automatic evaluation metrics for evaluating topic models in the Aftenposten news domain. We review and experiment with six evaluation metrics from previous research which are potentially ...

The field of medicine has a history of adopting new technology. Video equipment and sensors are used to visualize areas of interest in the human allowing for doctors to make diagnoses based on imagery observations. However, ...

Denne oppgaven handler om Universell Utforming av IKT og drøfter om simuleringer av funksjonsnedsettelser kan være en nyttig måte å oppdage tilgjengelighetsproblemer på og å skape empati. Jeg har intervjuet front-end ...

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 ...

One of the major obstacles in automatic polyp detection during colonoscopy is the lack of labeled polyp training images. In this paper, we propose a framework of conditional adversarial networks to increase the number of ...

Targeted therapy for patients with HER2‐positive (HER2+) breast cancer has improved overall survival, but many patients still suffer relapse and death from the disease. Intratumor heterogeneity of both estrogen receptor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This paper studies the secure transmission rate issue between sensors and the remote controller to defend the jamming and eavesdropping attacks in green cyber-physical transportation systems. In this system, the traffic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Malicious attacks in the power system can eventually result in a large-scale cascade failure if not rectified in a timely manner. These attacks, which are traditionally classified into physical and cyber attacks, can be ...

In this paper, we study how to efficiently integrate multiple relational databases using an ontology-based approach. In ontology-based data integration (OBDI) an ontology provides a coherent view of multiple databases, and ...

To enable elderly people to live independently in their homes, the government aims to de-institutionalize elderly care services by upscaling home care services and care housing and downscaling long-term stays at nursing ...

Driven by the evolutionary development of automobile industry and cellular technologies, dependable vehicular connectivity has become essential to realize future intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In this paper, we ...

It is essential to focus on universal design in agile software development to ensure that the software developed is usable by as many people as possible. This work studies how members of agile teams regard universal design, ...

The pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation (AF) is broad, with components related to the unique and diverse cellular electrophysiology of atrial myocytes, structural complexity, and heterogeneity of atrial tissue, and ...

Genomic alterations occurring during melanoma progression and the resulting genomic heterogeneity between metastatic deposits remain incompletely understood. Analyzing 86 metastatic melanoma deposits from 53 patients with ...

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 ...

Background: Chemotherapeutic agents such as anthracyclines and taxanes are commonly used in the neoadjuvant setting. Bevacizumab is an antibody which binds to vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) and inhibits its ...

Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) is the most popular assay to identify genomic regions, called ChIP-seq peaks, that are bound in vivo by transcription factors (TFs). These regions are derived ...

Background Most patients with path_MMR gene variants (Lynch syndrome (LS)) now survive both their first and subsequent cancers, resulting in a growing number of older patients with LS for whom limited information exists ...