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 ...

Threat modelling is a component in security risk analysis, and it is commonly conducted by applying a specific approach for discovering and modelling threats. The three main approaches for threat modelling are asset-centric, ...

This thesis is an interpretive qualitative research study exploring the use of welfare technology in elderly care. In Norway, health care and social services for elderly people are important parts of the welfare policy. A ...

Analysis of large amounts of data, so called Big Data, is changing the way we think about science and society. One of the most promising rich Big Data sources is mobile phone data, which has the potential to deliver near ...

Noise. It is around us, everywhere, all the time. It is hard to control, hard to shut out. It affects our health, sometimes even without us noticing it. Noise is one form of pollution, and is causing annoyance and other ...

The book aims to be a resource for those interested in planning and implementing large-scale information infrastructures for novel electronic services in health care. The focus of this book is on the pivotal role of the ...

Today, virtualization technology plays an important role in the computer industry. Virtual Machines (VMs) are deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet the requirements of a market that expects service delivery ...

Dette studiet analyserer forholdet mellom pengekompensasjon og motivasjon i den norske virksomheten av et IT- infrastrukturselskap.. Økonomiske og psykologiske teorier spår at design og implementering av prestasjonsmåling ...

We present a representation of spatial data that supports answering of qualitative queries (involving e.g. containment and overlap), using less time than numerical computations on coordinates, and less space than explicitly ...

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 ...

In this research report we propose a self-organizing media streaming solution that supports multiple interacting participants as well as a large number of observers. This solution is aimed at a number of emerging multimedia ...

Background Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical and molecular level. In this study we integrate classifications extracted from five different molecular levels in order to identify ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this paper, we present results from a research through design inquiry into the design space of second-hand use of consumer goods and their potential for creating more sustainable and less consumerism-oriented lifestyles. ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Refactoring is an essential operation in software engineering, with the purpose of improving the structural qualities of software. An emerging trend in software engineering is the use of model-driven approaches in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In model-driven engineering approaches, models are considered firstclass entities. The composition of models is a necessity for modelling software systems. Structural composition of models has been studied thoroughly during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 is an illustration of an action research study framed within a pragmatic worldview in a developing country context. It was undertaken with the aim of harnessing the potential of training in cultivating communities ...

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 ...