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 ...

The objective of this study was to find out how to develop an E-learning platform that can both provide an intuitive user experience and a simple and effective human to computer interaction. Due to the poor internet ...

Bakgrunn: Helsepolitisk er hjemmesykepleien og andre tjenester i hjemmet satsingsområder for å motvirke eldrebølgen. Gjennom samhandlingsreformen har ansvaret for pasienter blitt overført til kommunene og dermed legges mye ...

In this thesis I explore the concept of serendipity by looking at if and how it is possible to foster surprising discoveries of books during online searching, similar to such discovery while browsing bookshelves in a ...

Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder characterized by disruption in the natural breathing cycles during sleep. The disorder is common and is linked together with other disabilities and disorders that have serious ramifications ...

Smartphones are among the most popular communication devices there are today. They have the functionality, the flexibility, the prevalence and the economic and technological growth that makes them interesting for new ...

The human DNA is a 3.1 billion long string of organic molecules, represented by four unique letters, one for each type of molecule in the chain. This string is physically divided into 23 separate pairs, folded to save space ...

Resultater fra forskning er oftest presentert i lange, tekstuelle artikler, med målgruppe voksne, gjerne akademikere. Mange barn og ungdommer er interessert i å finne mer ut av resultatene fra forskning de selv har deltatt ...

With the increased appropriation of health information systems in develop- ing countries, scholars have identified that the systems implemented often fail to scale and countries are left with prototypes that are hard to ...

Inspired by animals’ ability to learn and adapt to changes in their environment during life, hybrid evolutionary algorithms have been developed and successfully applied in a number of research areas. This paper explores ...

Railways are considered safest of all in land transport system, yet this safety is due to a complex system of interlocking which ensures the safe train movements on track. Data related to interlockings for a railway track ...

The need for computing power is constantly increasing and this has popularized the utilization of specialized computing units, such as a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), for general-purpose computing. General-purpose GPUs ...

A fundamental question is how autophagosome formation is regulated. Here we show that the PX domain protein HS1BP3 is a negative regulator of autophagosome formation. HS1BP3 depletion increased the formation of LC3-positive ...

The aim of the thesis was to build a complete chess engine and parallelize it using the lazy SMP algorithm. The chess engine implemented in the thesis ended up with an estimated ELO rating of 2238. The lazy SMP algorithm ...

Oppgaven handler om strategisk kompetanseledelse knyttet til grunnskolelæreres kompetanse om informasjonssikkerhet og personvern. Norge ligger langt framme i å ta i bruk ny teknologi, og dette preger også grunnskolen. ...

Conventional image sensors use simple NMOS Source follower to read out the photodiode signal. The linearity of the source follower is limited, especially for large voltage swings. This is problematic in low-power applications ...

I denne studien har jeg undersøkt hvilken rolle IT-arkitektur spiller for digital tjenesteinnovasjon. Forskningsarbeidet har vært utført på min arbeidsplass i Skandiabanken. IT-arkitekturen er studert ut i fra nøkkelfaktorene ...

Client platform infection poses a significant threat to secure user authentication. Com- bining vulnerable client platforms with special security devices, as often the case in e- banking, can increase significantly the ...

The rapidly increasing pervasiveness and integration of computers in human and animal society calls for a broad discipline under which this development can be studied. We argue that to design and use technology one needs ...

Genome sequencing of the teleost Atlantic cod demonstrated loss of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II, an extreme gene expansion of MHC class I and gene expansions and losses in the innate pattern recognition ...

This paper explores how designing based on psychomotor capacities instead of disabilities can reconnect old people with technology. We introduce four alternative designs for radios to demonstrate how facilitating a design ...

In this paper, we report on a participatory design (PD) process with old users. We discuss how we organized and carried out the process so that our users could participate in the mutual learning and co-construction activities ...

Current studies on image quality have identified contrast as an important perceptual attribute. Four practical algorithms for image contrast have been proposed in this research work. The first algorithm is for measuring ...

In this work, we have developed an open source, portable toolkit for detecting negation cues and their scope in natural language. Our tool is designed with a two-phase architecture, where cue detection and scope resolution ...

Qualitative research approaches are now well established in information systems research, and are given equal weight as quantitative research in research methods courses in graduate programs. Similar, the heated paradigm ...

The nature of services is becoming complex, indeterminate and often transformational and hence designed solutions need to allow for continuous and ongoing evolution by building up organizational capacity for sustained ...

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 ...

Muscle architecture features, typically defined by the length, curvature and the angle of insertion of fascicles, are directly related to muscle function. In addition to its applications in fundamental and applied physiology, ...

Avoiding malnutrition is a vital aspect of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Sunnaas Hospital. However, understanding personal nutritional requirements and enabling informed dietary decisions can be difficult for ...

The number of Secure Elements (SEs) embedded in devices such as mobile phones, smart watches and physical security tokens are increasing. The cryptographic services these tamper-resistant micro-controller chips provide are ...

Universal design in context of digitalisation has become an integrated part of international conventions and national legislations. A goal is to make the Web accessible for people of different genders, ages, backgrounds, ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven handler om eldre og IKT, og deres motivasjoner og barrierer for å lære og ta i bruk digital teknologi. Det er en kvalitativ studie, med en etnografisk tilnærming for å samle data. Datainnsamlingen har bestått ...

Today, the world relies on complex infrastructures to host crucial services needed in a society. The need to keep a service running over time can be the key factor that keeps a person from dying. The worlds economy relies ...

This dissertation discusses a broad range of problems concerning the use of the SPARQL query language on the open, publicWeb. It is motivated from seeing decentralisation of data and infrastructure as an important social ...

Background The Global Roadmap for Health Measurement and Accountability sees integrated systems for health information as key to obtaining seamless, sustainable, and secure information exchanges at all levels of health ...

This thesis presents a systematic, empirical investigation of how an existing PoS tag set can be modified and optimized for the task of syntactic dependency parsing of Norwegian. The tag set of the Norwegian Dependency ...

Background It is now clearly evident that cancer outcome and response to therapy is guided by diverse immune-cell activity in tumors. Presently, a key challenge is to comprehensively identify networks of ...

In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when design teams consist of non-designers. We have conducted a series of workshops to experiment with open-ended, semi-structured ...

Small, self-directed teams are central in agile development. This article investigates the effect of team- work quality on team performance, learning and work satisfaction in agile software teams, and whether this effect ...

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 ...

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 master's thesis investigates the users' understanding, use and perception of control in ubiquitous and context-aware systems. An Android prototype was developed and tested with users. The prototype scanned for Bluetooth ...

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 ...

The work presented in this thesis concerns the classification of emotions based on smartphone accelerometer data. The data is collected from individuals who have been carrying their phone in a pocket while walking. While ...

Modern cloud applications consist of software components deployed on multiple virtual machines. Deploying such applications is error prone and requires detailed system expertise. The deployment optimization problem is about ...

Fine-grained opinion analysis is one task in the field of sentiment analysis/opinion mining. This involves, among other things, detecting opinionated subparts of a text and linking targets of opinion and opinion holders ...

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 ...

The paper describes experiences with Eco-A, an interactive installation for children and youth. The installation was designed to engage children and youth in active conversation around environmental and climate issues. It ...

This paper presents a qualitative study of deployment and use of a robot as a sick child’s avatar at school. Many children and youth suffer from a range of chronic illnesses that make them, often for long stretches of time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Chimeric RNA molecules, or fusion transcripts, are transcripts where exons from two or more different genes are fused into one transcript. These have the potential to encode novel proteins, and might play roles in the ...

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 ...

In this paper, a new principle for an adaptive line driver using Fuzzy logic is presented. This type of line driver can adapt its output impedance and gain, automatically to the applied load using a fuzzy logic controller ...

This paper studies how word embeddings trained on the British National Corpus interact with part of speech boundaries. Our work targets the Universal PoS tag set, which is currently actively being used for annotation of a ...

This study aims to determine whether it is possible to make a profitable stock trading scheme using machine learning on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). It compares binary classification learning algorithms and their ...

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 ...

Regjeringen setter hvert år høyere krav og større forventinger til en bedre helsesektor, som fokuserer på god pasientbehandling. For å oppnå dette er fokus på teknologiutvikling stort, og det er også en forutsetning for ...

Denne studien hadde som hensikt å kartlegge i hvor stor grad informasjonsinfrastrukturteori(II) kunne supplere, eventuelt erstatte, tradisjonell prosjektledelsesteori i store komplekse prosjekter. Ettersom store komplekse ...

This study was started in order to analyze the causes of users’ diminished control when using smart home technology and to suggest solutions for giving control back to the users. A case study was conducted in a Norwegian ...