I denne oppgaven utforsker jeg konseptet nysgjerrighet ved å se på om det er mulig å designe digitale grensesnitt som kan fremkaller nysgjerrighet. For å forske på dette har jeg valgt å fokusere på science ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While much research emphasizes design-before-use, we here study design-in-use. The notion of participatory continuing design is introduced to draw attention to the ongoing work of incorporating information and communication ...

Two mathematical models are part of the foundation of Computational neurophysiology; (a) the Cable equation is used to compute the membrane potential of neurons, and, (b) volume-conductor theory describes the extracellular ...

The daily stand-up meeting is a widely used practice. However, what is more uncertain is how valuable the practice is to team members. We invited professional developers of a programming forum to a survey and obtained 221 ...

IT-arkitekt som profesjon er tradisjonelt en tittel som mange virksomheter har etablert i sin IKT-organisasjon. At IT-arkitektene i en virksomhet til sammen bør inneha ulike kompetanseroller som forholder seg til hverandre ...

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 ...

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 ...

The common-reflection-surface (CRS) method offers a stack with higher signal-to-noise ratio at the cost of a time-consuming semblance search to obtain the stacking parameters. We have developed a fast method for extracting ...

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 ...

Reasonable Ontology Templates, OTTRs for short, are OWL ontology macros capable of representing ontology design patterns (ODPs) and closely integrating their use into ontology engineering. An OTTR is itself an OWL ontology ...

Objective Through the conduct of an individual-based intervention study, the main purpose of this project was to build and evaluate the required infrastructure that may enable routine practice of precision cancer medicine ...

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 ...

Copyright (2017) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article ...

It is widely recognized that the Internet transport layer has become ossified, where further evolution has become hard or even impossible. This is a direct consequence of the ubiquitous deployment of middleboxes that hamper ...

Datacenters using cloud computing have already gotten a strong foothold as a utility service in ICT environment. The challenge is however, these powerful machines inside the unremarkable looking buildings consume a huge ...

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 ...

Kontekst: Mange norske virksomheter bruker smidige metoder for systemutvikling. Disse metodene legger vekt på tett kobling mot kunder, arbeidsoppgaver som løses i team og med kontinuerlig fokus på kvalitet og forbedring. ...

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: 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 ...

Detection of malicious traffic can be challenging. Network intrusion detection systems are one of the tools that can be used in order to detect traffic, but many IDSs rely on static signatures that can be avoided relatively ...

This project explores the possibility of human identification for the Care and Alarm System by using human skeleton information captured by the Xbox One Kinect sensor. This project experiment three classifiers and three ...

The ability to record and replay program executions has many interesting applications such as debugging in the backwards direction, discovering and fixing the source of non-deterministic bugs and data races and retracing ...

I dette case studiet har jeg gjennom feltobservasjoner og intervjuer studert hvilken kunnskap og erfaringer en gruppe Operative ledere i ambulansetjenesten oppnår ute på oppdrag, og hvordan de deler den erfaringen. Målet ...

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 ...

This paper draws from the literature on collective action and the governance of the commons to address the governance of genetic data on variants of specific genes. Specifically, the data arrangements under study relate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change is a highly present challenge of the 21st century. Human factors are contributing to global warming with over-consumption as a part of the problem. The consummation of clothing is increasing, and we own a ...

Climate change is a highly present challenge of the 21st century. Human factors are contributing to global warming with over-consumption as a part of the problem. The consummation of clothing is increasing, and we own a ...

The sockets API has become the standard way that applications access the transport services offered by the IP stack. This article presents NEAT, a user space library that can provide an alternate transport API. NEAT allows ...

Exascale computing systems are being built with thousands of nodes. The high number of components of these systems significantly increases the probability of failure. A key component for them is the interconnection network. ...

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 ...

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, ...