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 presents the Ultra Low Voltage Dual Rail (ULVDR) logic style, a technology aimed at achieving high processing speeds at low supply voltage. Implementations of ULVDR inverters, NAND/NOR gates, XOR gates, and ...

Unwanted behaviour in terms of threats of violence in online discussions are of common occurrence. We can find such behaviour in e.g. comment fields on Facebook, Youtube and in online news papers. With increasing use of ...

In this thesis I will present an investigation of Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and its support for Norwegian Natural Language Processing (NLP). I display what NLTK has to offer for Norwegian NLP, then move on to evaluate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annotation of genomes is an important process which increases the usefulness of genomic data immensely. However, there are many annotation tools in use, and they can all give different results. This master project is about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis is an empirical study of the affects that Language Features, provided by Programming Languages on Design Pattern implementa- tions. The set of Design Patterns is mostly based on the ones described by first book ...

Voting has traditionally been performed by casting paper ballots in public polling places. However, advancements in computer technology in the latest decades have enabled voters to cast their votes electronically. By 2016, ...

There is a deluge of unstructured data flowing out from numerous sources, including the devices which make up the Internet-of-Things. This data flow is characterized by sheer volume, variety and velocity, and is expected ...

As mobile technology becomes ever more ubiquitous, making the choice to travel by public transport has never been easier. Still, the car is the preferred mode of transport, even within the large cities. This thesis looks ...

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emergent architecture where cloud computing services are extended to the edge of networks into the mobile base stations. As a promising edge technology, it can be applied to mobile, wireless ...

Go is a new language especially known for its speed, simplicity, and concurrency approach. The language has gained some promising momentum as a newcomer, several big projects like Docker is implemented in the language. As ...

Denne studien omhandler endringer og endringsledelse ved innføring av et nytt IT-verktøy i Arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningen (NAV). Moderne organisasjoner kan sies å være kjennetegnet av endring fremfor stabilitet. Dette ...

As we create increasingly complex software systems, we need better tools and concepts to analyze and understand them. On the practical level, we need instrumentation tools that give insights into running systems in a safe ...

This thesis presents research and experiments on the task of threat detection in online discussions, using natural language processing in a machine learning approach. We use an existing data set of manually annotated YouTube ...

Capsule endoscopy is used to examine the gastrointestinal tract, primarily the small intestines. The transformation of endoscopic capsules from passive to active systems, will save resources and make capsule endoscopy more ...

Denne oppgaven handler om å undersøke atferden til Langtons maur og hvordan vi kan bruke maurens atferd til å konstruere logiske porter. Videre skal vi bruke de logiske portene til å utføre beregninger. Senere skal vi se ...

Bruken av mobil informasjonsteknologi har økt betraktelig de siste årene. Teknologien utvikler seg og tas i bruk i stadig nye sammenhenger. Bruken av mobil informasjonsteknologi har også nådd mer aktive yrkesgrupper. ...

Governmental and private funding for research in many fields has resulted in a significant body of scientific evidence. Scientific evidence is made available in the form of thousands of peer-reviewed articles in online ...

Temaet for oppgaven er IT-arkitektur og organisasjonsmessig endringsevne (agilitet), og problemstillingen er å vurdere i hvilken grad ny integrasjonsarkitektur ved Universitetet i Oslo påvirker universitetets endringsevne. ...

Based on OffPAD project, I have researched and implemented a data authentication principle that can be implemented in the OffPAD project. This is based on the principle of authenticating data for online transactions using hash.

The goal of this master thesis is to discover how Bluetooth beacons affect user experience in a museum setting, specifically for museum visitors and staff. Two applications were developed; one of which was highly automatic ...

The goal of this master thesis is to discover how Bluetooth beacons affect user experience in a museum setting, specifically for museum visitors and staff. Two applications were developed; one of which was highly automatic ...

The volume of data being published on the Web and made available as Open Data has significantly increased over the last several years. However, data published by independent publishers are sliced and fragmented. Creating ...

Oppgaven belyser hvorvidt det er mulig å nyttiggjøre seg av smarthus- og velferdsteknologi for å bidra til økt forutsigbarhet og trygghet hos brukergruppene, samt øke kvaliteten og effektiviteten i hjemmetjenestens tjenester. ...

This thesis investigates the problem of efficiently determining the shortest distance from a point to a spline curve, and the location of the nearest point on the spline. Splines are versatile and popular approximation ...

InfiniBand is becoming a leading interconnect technology used in many of world’s most powerful supercomputers. To guarantee the high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements of HPCs and modern data centers, the Infini- Band ...

This thesis recalls the desirability of being able to apply congestion control coupling to concurrent TCP connections between the same end hosts. We identify challenges that must be overcome to provide practically deployable ...

Mobile devices become increasingly more powerful, and can now connect to a variety of external sensors. However, different external sensors might use different communication channels and data protocols, which makes the use ...

Software design patterns are formalized best practices, which provide reusable solutions to commonly occurring design problems in a given context in software engineering. The aim of this study was to investigate how software ...

Linked open data provides a powerful way to publish data on the Web. However, most publishers still choose to publish their data in tabular formats. Whereas tools for transforming tabular data to linked data are useful, ...

Semantic Enrichment, a lower-case approach to the Semantic Web, can be defined as adding contextual information to existing content in order to enable classification, disambiguation, indexing and data repurposing. Direct ...

Using MAP-Elites and Intelligent Trial and Error to search for adjusted features that can adapt the robot to changes in the environment

Denne masteren er et eksempel på hvordan å designe en fysisk gjenstand for et individ med psykisk utviklingshemning, som bruker intrinsic motisvasjon igjennom dets fysiske design, for å gjøre kommunikasjon mellom brukeren ...

Multiobjective pathfinding is an extremely computationally expensive problem, yet it is important for many applications. Classical algorithms fail as the complexity of the environment increases, and we must look to other ...

Servers have substantially increased their workload capacity over the years as an effect of a more digitalized way of living. With server capacity growing, so does the corresponding heat accumulation in data centers and ...

Parallel Programming has been thrown upon us by the industry which can't deliver what we really want - ever faster CPUs. Instead they give us more computing cores at a steadily decreasing cost. Programmers are now forced ...

In the past couple of decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a widely used approach for investigating the underlying genetic architecture of complex human diseases. Each particular GWAS will highlight ...

For synshemmede individer er mesteparten av visuell informasjon utilgjengelig, da disse ikke har mulighet til å hente den ut direkte med sitt begrensede sanseapparat. Mennesker er avhengige av synet sitt for å kunne danne ...

Microservices in the cloud has become an increasingly popular platform to run services on. However, general purpose operating systems found within most VMs in the cloud use more resources than necessary. The proposed ...

Large real-life scenes can be captured in 3D efficiently by current capturing devices. The captured 3D data can be transmitted over the internet to a remote viewer, who can experience the captured scene with a display ...

In the past few decades, bioinformatics has become an important part of medical research, providing the means to perform heavy computational analyses on increasingly large biomedical datasets, yielding new insights into ...

This thesis investigates the factors that affect the adoption, extension and implementation processes involving generic open source software systems in the health information systems domain of developing country contexts. ...

The worlds consumption of IPv4 addresses has exhausted the RIRs resource pools of available IPv4 address space. By the end of 2015, every RIR, except AFRINIC, had allocated all their blocks not reserved for IPv6 transitioning. ...

Intel‘s Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) is a C++ template library for implementing task parallelism. This parallel programming approach enables scalable memory allocation and task scheduling. Therefore it suits well ...

Mobile banking has been anticipated as the next step in digital finance for years. It is now, suddenly emerging in the developing world as a viable option for bringing banking services to the unbanked population of the ...

Software is used in many areas of our daily lives. Optimal software development processes are essential for successful projects in the software sector which has become a gigantic industry. Traditional software development ...

For a long time, the preferred machine learning algorithms for doing graph classification have been kernel based. The reasoning has been that kernels represent an elegant way to handle structured data that cannot be easily ...

Real-time collaboration allows multiple users to view and edit a document simultaneously over a network. In this thesis, we develop a new protocol, called Shared Buffer, which enables real-time collaboration in existing ...

In this study, machine learning on a microcontroller-based electronic nose is proposed to identify danger in gas mixtures of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde. This electronic nose is low-powered and ...

This thesis investigates whether a computer game can aid young people with long term health challenges as they prepare for the transition from children's hospital to adult clinic. Using the theory of game design and a ...

The effects of software execution are typically not accounted for when performing experiments in network simulators. This leads to discrepancies between the results observed in simulation experiments and the effects that ...

3D models created in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software are ubiquitous in the manufacturing industry. Preparing for analysis on them has typically been a very time-consuming process, and isogeometric analysis was therefore ...

As Moore s law continues, processors keep getting more cores packed together on the chip. This thesis is an empirical study of the rather newly introduced Intel Many Integrated Core (IMIC) architecture found in the Intel ...

Intelligence analysis is an important element of decision support but is often negatively affected by uncertain and unreliable information. Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) is a widespread analytic technique which ...

Bakgrunn: Ved slutten av 2015 ble mer enn 3 milliarder helseapper lastet ned fra de store app-butikkene. Vi vet at unge mennesker er storforbrukere av apper generelt, men lite forskning er gjort med tanke på unge mennesker ...

All modern passports, ID cards from all around the world and a wide range of other identification and travel documents contain a contactless integrated circuit (IC). The IC contains the data printed on the document as well ...

Ensuring access and findability of research is crucial to allow for scientific knowledge to be spread and built upon, and this is the primary motivator behind this thesis. A crowdsourced online search engine for Open Access ...