This paper presents an overview of the ImageCLEF 2020 lab that was organized as part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - CLEF Labs 2020. ImageCLEF is an ongoing evaluation initiative (first run in 2003) ...

How do configurations of humans and algorithms evolve as firms adopt artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and what are the implications for work and organization? We explored these questions through a two-year long ...

The growth of digital ecosystems such as Google, Apple and Uber has led to radical changes in economic activity, work and consumption. It has also challenged established economic, social and organization theory, which has ...

We used sleep monitoring data from a study that investigated the prevalence, characteristics, risk factors and type of sleep apnea (SA) in 579 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Most patients were screened for ...

Abstract In B lymphocytes, the uracil N-glycosylase (UNG) excises genomic uracils made by activation-induced deaminase (AID), thus underpinning antibody gene diversification and oncogenic chromosomal translocations, ...

Using microservices is a way of supporting an agile architecture. However, if the microservices development is not properly managed, the teams’ development velocity may be affected, reducing agility and increasing architectural ...

BAKGRUNN Norske retningslinjer for primærforebygging av hjerte- og karsykdom anbefaler bruk av risikoskårmodellen NORRISK-2, med noen tillegg. Vi ønsket å undersøke om NORRISK-2 kunne predikere hjerte- og karsykdom hos ...

Multi-function swarms are swarms that solve multiple tasks at once. For example, a quadcopter swarm could be tasked with exploring an area of interest while simultaneously functioning as ad-hoc relays. With this type of ...

Many scholars have pointed to Austrian subjectivism as an appropriate framework for understanding and studying entrepreneurship. Yet very few empirical studies in the field of entrepreneurship have applied a subjectivist ...

Human phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) is an evolutionary conserved enzyme that belongs to the ubiquitous and ancient α-d-phosphohexomutases, a large enzyme superfamily with members in all three domains of life. PGM1 catalyzes ...

Current ultrasonic Local Positioning Systems (LPS) based on an infrastructure of beacons can provide centimeter-level accuracy employing the spread spectrum technique, which also adds robustness against noise. However, the ...

Program evolution may reveal bad design decisions, misunderstandings, erroneous code, or erroneous specifications, because problems made early in the design of a system may not be discovered until much later in the life-time ...

Background Graph-based reference genomes have become popular as they allow read mapping and follow-up analyses in settings where the exact haplotypes underlying a high-throughput sequencing experiment are ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology that is driving the connection of billions of devices around the world. Because these devices are often resource‐constrained and very heterogeneous, this presents unique challenges. ...

In today’s hypercompetitive market, companies are forced to be creative and innovate in order to survive. Digital technology has brought new possibilities for organisations as well as enabled thousands of start-ups to enter ...

Following the highly pervasive and effective use of agile methods for software development, attention has now turned to the much more difficult challenge of applying these methods in large scale, organization-wide development. ...

Refactoring is the practice of changing code without altering its behavior. Rust is a language with an ownership model where lifetimes are statically resolved and it has macro support. In this thesis we develop algorithms ...

The structure and performance of neural networks are intimately connected, and by use of evolutionary algorithms, neural network structures optimally adapted to a given task can be explored. Guiding such neuroevolution ...

Access control is a security measure for restricting access to computer resources, especially in multi-user and data sharing settings. Attribute-based access control is a successor of the role-based access control that has ...

Sixty years have passed since neurosurgeon Nils Lundberg presented his thesis about intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, which represents a milestone for its clinical introduction. Monitoring of ICP has since become a ...

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a data transmission technology featuring high bandwidth, low latency, and low computational overhead. RDMA can be used to transmit data between applications running on interconnected ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg digital ledelse i digitaliseringen av en offentlig helseinformasjonsinfrastruktur. Litteraturen om informasjonsinfrastrukturer brukes som grunnlag for å forstå casen i studien. Det trekkes frem ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user-centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

Predicting the future using deep learning is a research field of increasing interest. The majority of contributions concern architectural designs for predictive models, however, there is a lack of established evaluation ...

This thesis investigates the application of the User Centered Design (UCD) methodology into the existing work practices of an organization that specializes in implementing generic software. Specifically, it focuses on the ...

It is almost impossible to visit a website today that does not have tracking tools implemented. Either for the purpose of analytics or for advertising, data is being collected about us on virtually every website. This ...

Dynamic resource provisioning is an important driver for pay-on-demand cloud computing. Virtualized resources open for resource awareness, such that applications may use resource management strategies to modify their ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

Background Targeted client communication (TCC) using text messages can inform, motivate and remind pregnant and postpartum women of timely utilization of care. The mixed results of the effectiveness of TCC interventions ...

Today, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in many different scenarios including search, monitoring, inspection, and surveillance. To be able to transmit the sensor data from the UAVs to the destination reliably ...

Multipath transport protocols utilize multiple network paths (e.g., WiFi and cellular) to achieve improved performance and reliability, compared with their single-path counterparts. The scheduler of a multipath transport ...

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is gaining momentum as a promising technology for massive machine type communication. Given that its deployment is rapidly progressing worldwide, measurement campaigns and performance ...

Experimental studies in neuroscience are producing data at a rapidly increasing rate, providing exciting opportunities and formidable challenges to existing theoretical and modeling approaches. To turn massive datasets ...

Abstract Agile transformation implies that organizations apply agile methods also outside of software development units. One particular way of doing such transformations is to create cross-functional software development ...

The high heterogeneity of 5G use cases requires the extension of the traditional per-component testing procedures provided by certification organizations, in order to devise and incorporate methodologies that cover the ...

We discuss methodological choices in contrastive and diagnostic evaluation in meaning representation parsing, i.e. mapping from natural language utterances to graph-based encodings of its semantic structure. Drawing ...

Automatic human activity detection, mainly transport-wise, is very relevant for architects and urban planners (among many others) when designing cities, roads, public transportation systems, etc. Such detection allows to ...

Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) appear as different histological subtypes or mixtures of these. They show similar, multiple DNA copy number changes, where gain of 12p is pathognomonic. However, few high-resolution ...

In March 2020 the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Norway increased rapidly, and the efforts to trace contacts of positive cases were under severe pressure. Contact tracing in Norway is the responsibility of the ...

A typical approach to reduce speckle in coherent imaging systems, is to average same-target images with different speckle realizations. We study settings where such realizations come from applying different transducer-array ...

Fascicle (fiber bundle) orientation and length are useful parameters to infer the force potential of skeletal muscles. Ultrasound imaging is commonly used to determine fascicle characteristics. In most of the literature, ...

Non-determinism in a concurrent or distributed setting may lead to many different runs or executions of a program. This paper presents a method to reproduce a specific run for non-deterministic actor or active object ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

Population growth and climate change pose a real threat to food security. In addition, current food production practices have created a huge ecological footprint. In spite of this, food production has to increase globally. ...

På grunn av bekymringer over hvorfor så mange studenter som dropper ut i løpet av et semester, lurer mange i de siste årene på hvordan dette fenomenet har oppstått. Vi på Institutt for informatikk (IFI) lurer på hva årsaken ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

The Norwegian language is under-resourced for various Natural Language Processing tasks, including the task of sentiment analysis. However, recent publications of sentiment analysis datasets such as the Norwegian Review ...

This thesis explores preschool children’s interaction with a conversational agent (CA), and we position this work within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through a preliminary case study, we explored children ...

Information and communication technologies, such as remote health monitoring and mobile Internet, have played a key role on a major improvement on patients’ lives. The problem is that patient monitoring requires higher ...

More compliant robots have certain benefits when coming to cooperating with humans. Standard industrial robots today require many safety measurements to be legal and safe to operate. Soft robots can therefor be safer, have ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

Teaching machines to learn patterns in data is very common these days, and it has a broad spectrum of applications everywhere. Sensors like smart-watches are getting more functionality each year, and more and more people ...

Learning about the periodic table of elements can be a challenge for second grade students. The amount of theoretical information, combined with abstract scientific concepts, makes it difficult for students’ meaning-making. ...

While semantic technologies and the use of ontologies is one of the proposed solutions to the heterogeneity problem in database systems, the independent generation of ontologies leaves us with another heterogeneity problem. ...

Autonomous manufacturing and assembly requires precise estimation of pose (position and orientation) of the object to be handled. If geometric information of the object is available, such as a CAD file, these estimates can ...

This thesis presents challenges and necessary requirements for simulating shared photovoltaic (PV) energy production and appliance consumption scheduling in urban apartment buildings. Such simulations are useful as a tool ...

Passive fingerprinting with a Deep Learning approach. The approach is compared to three well established machine learning algorithms; SVM, KNN and Random Forest. A never before used value for fingerprinting, the TCP ...

Modern large-scale software systems are highly configurable. Thus, they require a large number of test cases to be implemented and revised for testing a variety of system configurations. This makes software testing of ...

In this thesis, we present a study of English noun–noun compound analysis that takes a holistic perspective on the problem. The holistic nature of our work manifests in three respects. First, of five compound analysis ...

This paper reports from the early phase of a Participatory Design (PD) process where the goal is to design technology that involves people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their caretakers as participants. The ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en deltakende designprosess hvor målet har vært å undersøke hvordan kommunikasjon gjennom NAVs nettsider kan designes for og med sårbare brukere. NAV holder i dag på å digitalisere de fleste av ...

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the most important topics in computing technology. With the ever-growing demands for a variety of services in cloud infrastructure, providing fast and affordable computing resources to ...

Denne oppgaven dreier seg om reparasjon av mobiltelefoner som en del av et bærekraftig eierskap, fordi dagens praksis fører med seg store miljøskader. Forskningsspørsmålene jeg ønsker å svare på gjennom oppgaven er: 1. ...

People are bad at making passwords, resulting in an easily exploitable security vulnerability across the digital landscape. Basing your memorized password on something like your spouse’s name or even your own is inherently ...

How can older adults actively participate in the design processes of assistive robots designed for their homes? We have organized workshops with a group of older adults who worked actively with materials and physical ...

Gamification is a term for adding game design elements into a non-game context. Using motivational theory and gamification theory this thesis explores how adding game elements to an educational learning tool affects students ...

This thesis is an exploration of transitions towards a more sustainable fashion industry with a cross-disciplinary project involving Norwegian fashion brand Haik With Us. Together we created a research product that is 10 ...

In this work, we tackled the task of identifying sentiment bearing sentences for product reviews in Norwegian. We have created a set of automatically labeled datasets that classify sentences in terms of how relevant they ...

Named Data Networking (NDN) has built in congestion mechanisms, both in end-node applications and in the forwarding strategy in intermediate nodes. End-nodes may adjust sending rate. Intermediate nodes will rank each face ...

Managing requirements are an integral part in any type of software development. In generic open source software projects, this process is increasingly difficult. Designing generic requirements and balancing the needs of ...

In the search for new technologies to assist the fish industry in the fight against diseases, computer vision is playing an essential role. The ability to automatically detect and inspect fish through a camera lens opens ...

This thesis describes the design of a domain map prototype, which serves as a means of tackling wicked problems from the perspective of knowledge federation. This is to cre-ate a new way of problem-solving in a time of ...