Background The disease and phenotype track was designed to evaluate the relative performance of ontology matching systems that generate mappings between source ontologies. Disease and phenotype ontologies ...

This paper presents a method of automatic construction extraction from a large corpus of Russian. The term ‘construction’ here means a multi-word expression in which a variable can be replaced with an- other word from the ...

Model-driven engineering is an approach that has increased in popularity during the course of the last couple of decades. In model-driven engineering models are first-class artefacts, which provides the software engineers ...

The concrete problem this paper addresses is the following: Given a set of objects with a spatial interpretation and a set of qualitative relations, construct a bintree representation that returns the same answers to queries ...

DDoS attacks have for the last two decades been among the greatest threats facing the internet infrastructure. Mitigating DDoS attacks is a particularly challenging task. It is known that ordinary signature based detection ...

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 ...

Background: Studies on medication safety in pregnancy often rely on an oversimplification of medication use into exposed or non-exposed, without considering intensity and timing of use in pregnancy, or concomitant medication ...

Online grocery shopping is an increasing trend in many countries. Several studies have been done to investigate different aspects of online grocery shopping. Researchers have found that the likelihood that there will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Live media streaming applications are increasingly popular, with services such as Twitch.tv and YouNow being used by millions of people. Deploying such services on the cloud can be very expensive, as the cost is proportional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report explains the details of a configurable index structure that allows to perform efficiently the kinds of filtering operations required to implement faceted search over RDF data. Unlike previous systems, it is ...

The enterprise architect profession is a relatively young profession that came about with the inception of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in the 1980’s. As more companies adopt EA, the demand for enterprise architects to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online grocery shopping is an increasing trend in many countries. Several studies have been done to investigate different aspects of online grocery shopping. Researchers have found that the likelihood that there will be ...

The Tanzanian health commodity supply chain has gradually improved since the decentralisation of the health information system began in 1999. As a part of the decentralisation process, the supply chain management has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Innovasjon knyttes til konkurransefortrinn som større vekst, mer suksess, større markedsandeler og økende profitt. Samarbeid mellom to avdelinger kan fremme kunnskapsdeling og øke innovasjonsevnen, også innenfor samme ...

We prove that a special case of the NP-complete problem Multiprocessor Scheduling (MPS) is in P. In particular, we prove that given ⟨r, m⟩, where r ∈ ℕ and m ∈ ℕ⁺, deciding whether or not it is possible to partition the ...