This thesis investigates the IT innovation processes in healthcare. The case study research follows a startup company that wants to introduce their app as a tool for the clinical workflow in hospitals. The thesis looks ...

This thesis presents work towards a comprehensive set of methods to extract quantitative shape features and infarct information from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging data to enable classification of a heart disease state ...

This thesis is a case study of Uber. The research questions are 1. How do ridesharing platforms evolve from startups into large-scale market disrupters? 2. How can ridesharing platforms augment its user base and capture ...

Systems of healthcare and the field of physical therapy in particular are likely to come under increased stress in the decades to come as populations age faster than their workforces can handle. Much of healthcare is ...

Virtual Reality (VR) for scientific visualization has been researched from the 90s, but there has been little research into the fundamental aspects of VR for scientific visualisation. Questions like "Is VR ready for ...

Digital forretningskompetanse er viktig kompetanse for ledere. Den kan bidra til å øke konkurranseevnen til bedriften gjennom å utnytte mulighetene IT gir. Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan ledere tar til seg digital ...

In this thesis the focus will be on the speed of light, and how one may reduce its impact on performance. For each remote invocation, there is an associated overhead that corresponds to the latency between the respective ...

A CMOS image sensor with global shutter mechanism, HDR capability and high shutter efficiency has been designed and tested. The image sensor consists of a 128x128 pixel array, readout circuitry and special components for ...

The exponential increase in data generated gives rise to more demanding requirments for processing it. A parallel programming paradigm known as MapReduce, has been used widely to process this data. There exist frameworks ...

Background: The potential of mobile health technology is increasing with the development of smartphones. Realizing the potential for specific user groups is something that has not been the focus of either research or ...

Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI) har sammen med Kongsberg Maritime utviklet det autonome undervannsfarkostet (AUV) HUGIN som ved hjelp av ulike sensorer navigerer ubemannet og kartlegger havbunnen ved bruk av sonar og ...

This thesis investigates the issue of change impact analysis in a special case of health information system: the Cancer Registry of Norway. The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) is an institution dedicated to the population-based ...

Most Health Information Systems (HIS) in developing countries are fragmented and characterized by multiple overlapping and/or duplicate sub-HIS. The fragmentation of HIS is further identified by many researchers as the ...

The aim of this thesis is to describe advanced computer network operations, investigate the present status of national defence efforts and suggest measures that may improve that status. In the first part, the traits of ...

Integration of health information systems (HIS) in developing countries has received a great deal of attention over the last ten years. Most academic writing on this subject has been concerned with the integration of health ...

Renewable energy sources, and thus PV are experiencing exponential growth due to most current energy production still relies on fossil fuels, and energy demands are steadily increasing. If the performance of PV could be ...

Classification societies date back to the second half of the 18th century, where marine insurers developed a system for independent technical assessment of the ships presented to them for insurance cover. Today, a major ...

This thesis is an explorative study of spatial encounters between older adults and autonomous robots. We have collected data from a wide range of contexts to explore the domain; using field studies, observations, focus ...

This thesis is an explorative study of spatial encounters between older adults and autonomous robots. We have collected data from a wide range of contexts to explore the domain; using field studies, observations, focus ...

As a complex security tool, the Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) goes beyond the role of a traditional firewall, by detecting any network security threats with its advanced monitoring of network traffic and ...

The goal of this thesis is to model the resolution of referring expressions (e.g., "the red ball") to visual entities in real world. This task is known as visual reference resolution. In order to address it, two types of ...

Fast and efficient communication is crucial for workers that are required to collaborate. Instant messaging has been found to be more efficient than email and other asynchronous messaging systems when used for asking quick ...

DHIS2 has established itself as de facto standard for health management information system in developing countries. While DHIS2 provides tools for collecting, analysing and visualising data, history shows that data is often ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more integrated with our daily lives for each passing day. Some households are already equipped with smart devices which perform tasks such as monitoring the indoor climate to mowing ...

Background and Objective: For more than a decade, computer-assisted surgical systems have been helping surgeons to plan liver resections. The most widespread strategies to plan liver resections are: drawing traces in ...

Recommendation systems help users find interesting items and reduce the information overflow problem on websites. Much research has been conducted on such systems the last decades, and there exist several recommendation ...

Samtidig som digitaliseringen av tjenester i samfunnet foregår, øker også viktigheten av at disse tjenestene designes og utvikles med tanke på universell utforming. Diskriminerings- og tilgjengelighetsloven skal bidra til ...

Electric automobiles (eCars) are considered less harmful to the environment than conventional, fossil-fueled vehicles. Due to economic incentives provided by the Norwegian government, eCars have enjoyed great success in ...

Electric automobiles (eCars) are considered less harmful to the environment than conventional, fossil-fueled vehicles. Due to economic incentives provided by the Norwegian government, eCars have enjoyed great success in ...

The human digestive system can be affected by many types of diseases. For example, three of the six most common cancer types (esophagus, stomach and colorectal) are located in the gastrointestinal tract. Colorectal cancer ...

This thesis examines how the hadoop-stack can be used to create a database for observational weather data. Hbase was used as a means to store data on HDFS while maintaining relatively short response time for queries. In ...

Kunstig intelligens har vært et veldig populært tema i det siste. Nå har vi klart å utvikle biler som kjører seg selv og støvsugere som støvsuger gulvet for oss. Swarm Intelligence er et konsept basert på kunstig intelligens ...

Background It has been proposed that future reference genomes should be graph structures in order to better represent the sequence diversity present in a species. However, there is currently no standard ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg integrering av elever med ME og skolevegring i ordinært opplæringstilbud i skolen. Formålet med studien er å eksplorere tekniske muligheter som foreligger for å bedre inkludering av segregerte ...

This paper explores openness and its role and relevance in creating an opportunity for sustained innovation through design thinking in organizations such as libraries. There is a growing recognition of design thinking as ...

With the proliferation of cyber-attacks, there is an increased interest among practitioners and in academy in using Machine Learning as a defense, detection and prevention tool. In this thesis, we study the efficiency of ...

Recent developments in wireless sensors to measure physiological parameters and environmental parameters enable a new generation of applications for health monitoring. However, the complexity of many physiological signals ...

Protection against many cyber security threats can be implemented by existing software on the system, with no need for security software. Some operating systems or program parameters can increase the security level and ...

Synthetic aperture sonar images contain geometric distortions intrinsic to the imaging modality such as layover and shadow. These distortions cause information gaps in the image that are dependent on view aspect. It is ...

IT-arkitekturfaget har tradisjonelt hatt fokus på grundige analyser, basert på målbilder, for å sikre at IT-systemer implementeres på en måte som understøtter langsiktige behov på en kostnadseffektiv måte. Når rammebetingelsene ...

The popularity of the cloud computing has been increased exponentially in recent times. The rapid development of cloud computing technologies has lead to a paradigm shift in the way computing resources are provisioned. ...

Background A visualization referred to as rainfall plot has recently gained popularity in genome data analysis. The plot is mostly used for illustrating the distribution of somatic cancer mutations along a ...

One important class of applications for the Internet of Things is related to the need to gain timely and continuous situational awareness, like smart cities, automated traffic control, or emergency and rescue operations. ...

The two-dimensional quick response (QR) codes can be misleading due to the difficulty in differentiating a genuine QR code from a malicious one. Since the vulnerability is practically part of their design, scanning a ...

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in society's response to the emerging need of caretaking of the oldest citizens. This dissertation presents a design approach that focuses on capabilities rather than ...

In this paper, we present the results of preliminary experiments on finding the link between the surface forms of Russian nouns (as represented by their graphic forms) and their meanings (as represented by vectors in a ...

In the current HPC landscape multi-GPGPU computation has established it self as a highly performant hardware choice for many workloads. A challenge is to ease the programming burden. In this thesis we present a library ...

Threat intelligence is the provision of evidence-based knowledge about existing or potential threats. Benefits of threat intelligence include improved efficiency and effectiveness in security operations in terms of detective ...

This thesis presents the results of observations and analysis of students’ learning of model based system development from two related courses taught in the University of Oslo Norway and Florida Atlantic University USA. ...

Falls in homes of the elderly, in residential care facilities and in hospitals commonly occur in close proximity to the bed. Most approaches for recognizing falls use cameras, which challenge privacy, or sensor devices ...

MicroJam is a mobile app for sharing tiny touch-screen performances. Mobile applications that streamline creativity and social interaction have enabled a very broad audience to develop their own creative practices. While ...

In this paper, we formalize an operational semantics of a weak memory model similar to the one in Go, concentrating on buffered writes, i.e., ignoring the possibility of buffered reads.

Background Comparing sets of sequences is a situation frequently encountered in bioinformatics, examples being comparing an assembly to a reference genome, or two genomes to each other. The purpose of the ...

Efforts to use web data as corpora seek to provide solutions to problems traditional corpora suffer from, by taking advantage of the web's huge size and diverse type of content. This thesis will discuss the several sub-tasks ...

Nowadays, the global market offers an enormous variety of external sensors and measuring instruments. In combination with increasingly more powerful mobile devices, it is possible to create new tools which expand their ...

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a new technology introduced in recent generations of Intel processors. SGX is supposed to be able to create a trusted execution environment for user-space software that is protected ...

Most Software Product Lines are built from a set of existing products, that is re-engineered into reusable assets following feature location approaches. Traditional feature location approaches target program code, neglecting ...

Down-scaling of the supply voltage is considered as the most effective means of reducing the power- and energy consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). Reduction in the power- and energy consumption is highly beneficial ...

Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are specialized extracellular matrix (ECM) structures that condense around the soma and proximal dendrites of subpopulations of neurons. Emerging evidence suggests that they are involved in regulating ...

Global software development is a phenomenon that is receiving considerable interest from researchers during past two decades. Several challenges have been identified and approaches to deal with these challenges have been ...

Measuring the quality of education in a timely and reliable manner is at the core of social development of any country. To solve this pressing issue, the Ministry of General Education in Zambia has initiated a pilot project ...

Touch-screen musical performance has become commonplace since the widespread adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, mobile digital musical instruments are rarely designed to emphasise collaborative ...

Cancer Registry stores cancer data collected through local cancer registries i.e., clinical department, hospitals, health communities etc. The purpose of collecting data is to understand and address the cancer disease more ...

Background We have previously reported a high incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in carriers of pathogenic MLH1 variants (path_MLH1) despite follow-up with colonoscopy including polypectomy. ...

The main aim of the thesis is to contribute to a semi-autonomous active sensing system for needle tracking during percutaneous needle insertion. The objective is twofold: first to develop a system for acquiring ultrasound ...

This paper deals with using word embedding models to trace the temporal dynamics of semantic relations between pairs of words. The set-up is similar to the well-known analogies task, but expanded with a time dimension. To ...

Biometric systems have to address many requirements, such as large population coverage, demographic diversity, varied deployment environment, as well as practical aspects like performance and spoofing attacks. Traditional ...

Evolving robot morphologies implies the need for lifetime learning so that newborn robots can learn to manipulate their bodies. An individual’s morphology will obviously combine traits of all its parents; it must adapt its ...

Zambia’s Health Management Information System (HMIS) is currently undergoing a strengthening process. One aim of the strengthening process is to improve data use. Data in Zambia´s HMIS receives limited usage for data-informed ...

Percutaneous image-guided tumor ablation is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of malignant tumors using a needle-shaped ablation probe. Automating the insertion of a needle by using a robot could ...

Online survey applications enable researchers to create and distribute surveys in a cost-effective way. However, respondents may feel reluctant to participate in surveys collecting sensitive personal information if they ...

Bézier surfaces are mathematical tools employed in a wide variety of applications. Some works in the literature propose parallelization strategies to improve performance for the computation of Bézier surfaces. These ...

An important open problem in robotic planning is the autonomous generation of 3D inspection paths – that is, planning the best path to move a robot along in order to inspect a target structure. We recently suggested a new ...

A memory model dictates which values may be returned when reading from memory. In a parallel computing setting, the memory model affects how processes communicate through shared memory. The design of a proper memory model ...