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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The web based learning resources is believed to be playing an active role in the learning environment of higher education today. This qualitative study is exploring how students at Bergen University College incorporate ...

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 ...

This paper is concerned with the design of a system that handles published research literature evaluation related to clinical DNA sequencing and analysis of genetic variants. The literature handling system is part of a ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ensuring the functional quality of database applications is a very important problem in software testing, yet few innovative solutions and empirical studies are reported on the subject. Database applications are widely ...

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 ...

In the last few decades, the number of people suffering from chronic diseases that require continuous treatment and monitoring has been on the rise. To achieve a more cost-efficient health care system, and to offer better ...

This thesis addresses how dyslexia affects information search, a topic which has received little attention in previous research. A total of 42 students (21 dyslexics and 21 controls) completed three experiments; one visual ...

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 ...

Railway systems designs deal with complex and large-scale, safety-critical infrastructures, where formal methods play an important role, especially in verifying the safety of so-called interlockings through model checking. ...

With the emergence of the Web of Data, there is a need of tools for searching and exploring the growing amount of semantic data. Unfortunately, such tools are scarce and typically require knowledge of SPARQL/RDF. We propose ...

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 ...

The continuous increase of sophisticated cyber security risks exposed to the public, industry, and government through the web, mobile devices, social media, as well as targeted attacks via state-sponsored cyberespionage, ...

It is highly expensive to manually extend and maintain taxonomies such as wordnet; they tend to suffer from inefficient coverage. This thesis explores the possibility of automatically extending the Norwegian Wordnet, ...

In Norway, about one out of 2000 babies born is deaf, which means up to 20–30 children are born deaf every year. Some become deaf later due to diseases like meningitis or because of disease during pregnancy. In recent ...

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 ...

Background Detection and localization of genomic alterations and breakpoints are crucial in cancer research. The purpose of this study was to investigate, in a methodological and biological perspective, ...

Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the Navier Stokes equations is an invaluable research tool in fluid dynamics. Still, there are few publicly available research codes and, due to the heavy number crunching implied, ...

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

The use of robots in health care has increased dramatically over the last decade. One area of research has been to use robots to conduct ultrasound examinations, either controlled by a physician or autonomously. This paper ...

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, ...

The public space is often offset for young people, where bold and complex routines usually may result in more or less functional solutions, sometimes even in unpleasant design. More than ever the future depends on the ...

Cardiac ultrasound is a key component in modern cardiology, and is widely used to assess and quantify the heart’s anatomy and function. In the past two decades, real-time 3-dimensional ultrasound has emerged as a promising ...

Background The limited availability of maternal and child health data has limited progress in reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and children. Global health agencies, leaders, and funders ...

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 ...

In this paper, we argue that the technology design needs to take a more holistic perspective, well beyond opportunities offered by the technology development alone. This is especially important when developing technologies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful business in the mass market. However, the environment is under immense strain to sustain hyper-consumption driven lifestyles fuelled ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We present a new major release of the OpenSubtitles collection of parallel corpora. The release is compiled from a large database of movie and TV subtitles and includes a total of 1689 bitexts spanning 2.6 billion sentences ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...