Previously, we have worked on verification of railway regulations against CAD designs, and integrated a verification engine into the tool chain of railway engineers. This tool was used successfully in a pilot project at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the world's population ages, demands for health services continues to increase and robotics can be part of the solutions to this problem. One particular area of medicine, ultrasound, can be helped by robotics, especially ...

Popular media and public health care discourses describe an increasing number of mobile health technologies. These applications tend to be presented as a means of achieving patient empowerment, patient-centered care, and ...

The present report proposes a methodology for Smart Grid Security Classification (SGSC) having as target usage the complex systems in the smart grids and particularly Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI). Our methodology ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis improves the usability of the Communication Application with Geographical Element Data (CAGED) application, an Android application for improved Situational Awareness (SA) at the individual soldier level. CAGED ...

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 ...

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 ...

In designing safety-critical infrastructures s.a. railway systems, engineers often have to deal with complex and large-scale designs. Formal methods can play an important role in helping automate various tasks. For railway ...

Den utbredte bruken av smarttelefoner har bidratt til en enorm vekst av helse-apper. Blant det store mangfoldet av applikasjoner, så er helse- og livsstil-apper de mest brukte og en stor brukergruppe er jenter. På tross ...

I denne oppgaven undersøker vi metoder for å ekstrahere skjemaer fra dokumentdatabaser i MongoDB. Dokumentdatabaser har vokst frem som et populært alternativ til relasjonsdatabaser, og har fått stor medvind de siste årene. ...

Public-key cryptography makes it possible to create digital signatures and do key negotiation, which is inevitable for today’s commercial and governmental online computer systems. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is a ...

Personalizing the user experience on the web is important for news or product recommendations, online advertising and other domains. Users increasingly expect personalized experiences, and personalization technologies allow ...

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 ...

Recent studies have shown that word embedding models can be used to trace time-related (diachronic) semantic shifts for particular words. In this paper, we evaluate some of these approaches on the new task of predicting ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that causes repeatedly reduced respiration or no airflow in a period of time during sleep. Sleep apnea can be detected by analyzing bio-physiological signals such as electrocardiogram, oxygen ...

In the given research evaluations were conducted of the security level for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) as a part of Smart Grid infrastructure. The solution for an AMI comes from the vendor of Aidon. The evaluations ...

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 ...

This paper addresses the basic implementation and possible competitiveness of an ontology-based ranking method, that for a SPARQL query under construction, generates a ranking of likely extensions, based on a set of past ...

The advent of the Internet of Things, sensor and social networks, to mention just a few examples, all contribute towards the solid establishment of the Big Data era. High Performance Computing (HPC) becomes necessary for ...

Background: Recent large-scale undertakings such as ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics have generated experimental data mapped to the human reference genome (as genomic tracks) representing a variety of functional elements ...

Today, there exists a wide range of services and applications across several platforms that are prone to attacks. Attackers find new ways to exploit malfunctions and vulnerabilities within these systems every day. There ...

Small, low cost, radar systems have exciting applications in monitoring and imaging for the industrial, healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. We here explore, and show the feasibility of, several single bit ...

We report on our experience in ontology-based data access to the Slegge database at Statoil and share the resources employed in this use case: end-user information needs (in natural language), their translations into SPARQL, ...

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 ...

Wave-motion modeling and mathematical optimization have a vast variety of applications in research and industry. Marcus Noack, PhD fellow at Simula Research Laboratory, delved deep into the theoretical and numerical ...

Optimisation is a basic principle of nature and has a vast variety of applications in research and industry. There is a plurality of different optimisation procedures which exhibit different strengths and weaknesses in ...

Acoustic waves propagating in anisotropic media are important for various applications. Even though these wave phenomena do not generally occur in nature, they can be used to approximate wave motion in various physical ...

There has been a trend in city development for a little under a decade for cities to become “smart cities”, where recent innovations in technology such as big data processing, IoT, and AI are intended to transform the way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fordi fysiske begrensinger med varmegang forhindrer høyere klokkehastigheter på prosessoren og at det er plass til stadig flere komponenter på en prosessor, tilbyr maskinvareprodusentene oss flere kjerner for å forbedre ...