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 ...

Many health professionals in developing countries lack the proper competence for the work they are doing. Tooltips have previously proven to be effective, and may assist such health professionals in their daily routines ...

A number of new Citizen Science projects and Smart City initiatives have the common challenge of providing a smartphone with functional- ity to consume data and / or produce data. For many of these projects the data contains ...

Identifying different types of terrains is an important ability for every legged robot to achieve a stable locomotion. A variety of sensors has been applied to different robots in order to discriminate between terrains ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Copeptin is a novel biomarker that predicts mortality in lower respiratory tract infections and heart failure (HF), but the diagnostic value of copeptin in acute dyspnea and the prognostic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cross-domain information exchange is an increasingly important capability for conducting efficient and secure operations, both within coalitions and within single nations. A data guard is a common cross-domain sharing ...

Power consumption of physical and virtual machines is a major challenge for small to larg-scale cloud computing data centers. Hundreds of thousands of physical and virtual machines run in cloud data center which consume ...

Purpose: Chemotherapy-induced alterations to gene expression are due to transcriptional reprogramming of tumor cells or subclonal adaptations to treatment. The effect on whole-transcriptome mRNA expression was investigated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than Best Effort (LBE) transports are transport protocols that use spare bandwidth left by Best Effort (BE) transports to fulfill their own data transfer tasks. Such kind of protocols can be used by non-delay/bandwidth ...

In recent years, it has come to attention that governments have been doing mass surveillance of personal communications without the consent of the citizens. As a consequence of these revelations, developers have begun ...

Background The first Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome assembly published in 2011 was one of the early genome assemblies exclusively based on high-throughput 454 pyrosequencing. Since then, rapid advances ...

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 ...

Objective: Today most patients with Lynch syndrome (LS) survive their first cancer. There is limited information on the incidences and outcome of subsequent cancers. The present study addresses three questions: (i) what ...

Information integration and workflow technologies for data analysis have always been major fields of investigation in bioinformatics. A range of popular workflow suites are available to support analyses in computational ...

Purpose: T cells infiltrating follicular lymphoma (FL) tumors are considered dysfunctional, yet the optimal target for immune checkpoint blockade is unknown. Characterizing coinhibitory receptor expression patterns and ...

Background: There is a need for better collaboration between business and development units in product producing organizations, within in-house development. This need has emerged because developers would often know which ...

As we have discussed in the problem analysis of this thesis, there are still many challenges regarding decision making process in the context of Information Security that include (1) risk assessment, (2) security controls ...

Wireless sensor networks are an ever-growing market in today's society; Smart homes with wirelessly connected and controllable devices, continuous monitoring in environmental, health care and industrial settings, and ...

When programmers access external data in a statically typed programming language, they are often faced with a dilemma between convenient and type-safe access to the data. In the programming language F#, a concept called ...

The standard public-key cryptosystems used today relies mathematical problems that require a lot of computing force to solve, so much that, with the right parameters, they are computationally unsolvable. But there are ...

We give the first non-interleaving early operational semantics for the pi-calculus which generalizes the standard interleaving semantics and unfolds to the stable model of prime event structures. Our starting point is the ...

Our cities, landscapes, institutions, and homes are increasingly being equipped with sensors that glean information that is being processed by algorithms and visualized to serve as a basis for decision making. Such Internet ...

This thesis discusses and explores how we can connect humans to nature through technology, by measuring variables in trees and plants in a cheap, easy and controlled manner. A framework for connecting sensors and sensor ...

The InfiniBand (IB) communication standard has over the last decade emerged to be one of the most popular interconnects used in high- performance computing. Deployment of IB networks have grown in terms of size and scale, ...

This thesis builds on an exploratory, interpretive case study conducted in a developing country context. It was undertaken to discover how computers and data analysis software at facility level of the health system could ...

Background speckle can often obscure objects of interest in an ultrasound image. The probability of detection and classification of point scatterers is highly affected by background speckle. The proposed algorithm uses a ...

The 3’,5’-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase, or protein kinase A (PKA), pathway is one of the most versatile and best studied signaling pathways in eukaryotic cells. The two paralogous PKA ...

Co-evolution of robot morphologies and control systems is a new and interesting approach for robotic design. However, the increased size and ruggedness of the search space becomes a challenge, often leading to early ...

The widespread introduction of lightweight IT—smartphones, tablets, the Internet of Things, and the growth of third-party app developers—has become a challenge for many organizations. Local units and end-users increasingly ...

Communication between two Internet hosts using parallel connections may result in unwanted interference between the connections. In this dissertation, we propose a sender-side solution to address this problem by letting ...

With the latest development in the design and fabrication of high-density Multi-Electrode Arrays (MEA) for in-vivo neural recordings, the spatiotemporal information in the recorded signals allows for refined estimation of ...

Understanding the way information systems grow and change over time and the role of different contributors in these processes is central to current research on software development and innovation. In relation to this, there ...

Designs of railway infrastructure (tracks, signalling and control systems, etc.) need to comply with comprehensive sets of regulations describing safety requirements, engineering conventions, and design heuristics. We have ...

Automated verification of security protocols based on dynamic root of trust, typically relying on protected hardware such as TPM, involves several challenges that we address in this paper. We model the semantics of trusted ...

I denne artikkelen viser vi et nytt system for å kunne gi delvis automatisk og formativ tilbakemelding til studenter på skriftlig eksamen. Vi vil belyse en ny måte å gi individuell tilbakemelding rettet mot hver enkelt ...

Computational models are an absolutely necessary tool in many engineering disciplines. For example, computational models are used to predict tomorrow’s weather, to optimize the aerodynamics of new aircraft, and to ensure ...