The theme of this thesis is the use of the bidomain equations for modeling the electrical activity in the human heart, and the pursuit of ways to use these equations for medical applications. The first paper investigates ...

The paper presents Nymophone2, an acoustic instrument with a complex relationship between performance actions and emergent sound. A method for describing the multidimensional control actions needed to play the instrument ...

Oppgaven presenterer ulike rammeverk for utvikling av rike internettapplikasjoner. I tillegg undersøkes hvilke sikkerhetsutfordringer man som utvikler må være oppmerksom på når man benytter rammeverk for utvikling av denne ...

Conduit is a multi-platform distribution and deployment system originally created by Arve Knudsen. Conduit sets out to streamline the installation process of software, and assist in the installation of software that ...

This thesis examines the challenges of introducing Health Information Systems in Developing Countries, with special focus on the success and failure of two Vietnamese projects (Thua Thien Hue Province and Ho Chi Minh City). ...

A large number of network services use IP and reliable transport protocols. For applications with constant pressure of data, loss is handled satisfactorily, even if the application is latencysensitive. For applications ...

Transactions are a high-level alternative for low-level concurrencycontrol mechanisms such as locks, semaphores, monitors. A recent proposal for integrating transactional features into programming languages is Transactional ...

Knowledge management is the major challenge of today. Capturing expert information in a knowledge base that allows non-experts to locate it requires a carefully designed knowledge model. We attempt to discover whether the ...

In this thesis I have presented methods and techniques we have combined to develop the first version of a design methodology, referred to as Socio-Technical Systems Design, combing technical and organizational issues for ...

For å spare strøm og redusere oppheting kjører moderne prosessorer på lavere frekvens enn de tidligere prosessorene. Produsentene kompenserer performansetapet ved å innpakke flere kjerner i en brikke som da kan kjøre flere ...

Background The Tec-family kinase Itk plays an important role during T-cell activation and function, and controls also conventional versus innate-like T-cell development. We have characterized the transcriptome ...

Background The ability to detect neoplasia-specific fusion genes is important not only in cancer research, but also increasingly in clinical settings to ensure that correct diagnosis is made and the optimal ...

Background Recent segmental duplications are relatively large (≥ 1 kb) genomic regions of high sequence identity (≥ 90%). They cover approximately 4–5% of the human genome and play important roles in gene ...

As computers, and our dependency on them, increase in complexity so do the programs they run and their potential attack surface. Modern computer applications are complex constructs, with hundreds of thousands of lines of ...

Background The pigment melanin is produced by specialized cells, called melanocytes. In healthy skin, melanocytes are sparsely spread among the other cell types in the basal layer of the epidermis. Sun ...

I medisinsk ultralydavbildning, og i avbildningsystemer generelt, er det et stadig ønske om å oppnå høyere oppløsning og bedre bildekvalitet. I denne avhandlingen presenteres teknikker for å imøtekomme dette ved hjelp av ...

The online web portals cater information needs of different viewers. For a commercial portal like International Portal, not only the users differ, not also the mode of technology and tools also differ according to the ...

Det siste tiåret har militær forskning fokusert på hvordan fremskritt innen informasjonsteknologi kan tilpasses militære formål, slik at militære enheter raskt kan motta og dele informasjon. NATO har nylig beskrevet ...

Mobile Ad-hoc Nettverk er trådløse nettverk hvor de deltakende trådløse noder kommuniserer direkte uten bruk av et trådløst aksesspunkt. Hver enhet tar del i vedlikeholdet av nettverket ved å samarbeide om å utføre tjenester ...

Neural networks suffer from interference when they are evolved for different and unrelated tasks. This interference causes the networks to forget previously learned behaviours and worsens the more the network is trained ...

Semantic technologies are a family of specifications and accompanying tools that aim to raise the level of data processing from the syntactic to the semantic. The research community expects this to bring important advantages ...

The main contributions of this thesis is the implementation of the cautious harmonic broadcasting algorithm, as well as a stream scheduling framework (SSF), that supports implementing periodic broadcasting class algorithms. ...

Da forskere i empirisk systemutvikling har behov for å forstå folk i industriens holdninger til forskning har vi laget en survey som vi deployerte i to norske programvarehus og i én java-brukergruppe. Statistisk analyse ...

Gjennom et praktisk prosjekt utforskes designsituasjon hvor man forsøker å designe og utvikle et videospill "for kvinner". Oppgaven forstår denne designsituasjonen gjennom tre linser: 1. Hva vil det si å designe for ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om forbedringer til PRP -- Parallelle Rekursive Prosedyrer. PRP består av to deler: en Preprosessor og et kjøretidssystem. Preprosessor: Dette er en mekanisme for å gjøre om en brukers kode ...

Nowadays patients like to have the option of staying at home in their illness period. This can be realized through observing and monitoring the patients motion and temperature with an home care application. Sensors are ...

Cloud computing is the notion of abstracting and outsourcing hardware or software resources over the Internet, often to a third party on a pay-as-you-go basis. This emerging concept is sometimes claimed to represent a ...

En innføring i den generiske mekanismen Package Templates fremstilt av Krogdahl, Sørensen og Møller-Pedersens i artikkelen Exploring the use of Package Templates for flexible reuse of Collections of related Classes. ...

On-line multi-player games have experienced an impressive growth over the last decade. Despite this success, game providers struggle to keep up with the many different types of cheating occurring in these games. Due to the ...

Email has enjoyed increasing popularity in the last two decades. For some companies, email is how they communicate and coordinate their work. One such company is Opera Software. I have studied this Norwegian company and ...

The requirements for high precision and high speed of compact models demand new approaches to old challenges while raising new ones. In this paper I investigate the following: DG MOS Transistor modelling for integrated ...

Denne masteroppgaven er laget på bakgrunn av et omfattende europeisk forskningsprosjekt ved navn ITEA-MoSiS [1]. Oppgaven er ment for å kunne brukes til å reflektere over hvilke verktøy man skal velge når man skal lage et ...

This thesis presents a case study which is based on our experience and lessons learnt from modelling a control system using the state-of-the-art modelling language for systems engineering, Systems Modelling Language (SysML). ...

How can we improve communication of statistical health information? For people working with health information systems, the process of communicating statistical health information has sometimes proven to be problematic. ...

Streaming media is becoming increasingly common, and bandwidth demands are rising. Centralized distribution is becoming prohibitively hard to achieve and geographically aware hierarchical distribution has emerged as a ...

Denne masteroppgaven sammenlingner domene spesifikke språk med rammeverk. Problemet er undersøkt ved å implementere et domene spesifikt språk og et rammeverk for å lage elektroniske internettbutikker. Den første delen av ...

Oppgaven består av utvikling av en web-robot som skal laste ned et utsnitt av Internett over tid. Det skal utvikles et system for å lage analysepakker som kan analysere nettsidene som lastes ned. Dette systemet skal være ...

Double eigenvalues are not generic for matrices without any particular structure. A matrix depending linearly on a scalar parameter, A+ mu B, will however generically have double eigenvalues for some values of the parameter ...

This thesis takes a look at an alternative approach to resource management using virtualization. The paper makes an attempt at looking at some administrative issues that arise due to current designs of virtualization ...

Motivated by increasing use of server consolidation, we have investigated the performance of disk I/O in Linux under various workloads. The tests identified several inefficiencies in the disk I/O scheduler, and that not all ...

This thesis is about motion registration for Active Music applications, where motions is used to generate sound and music in real-time. Different motion capture systems have been implemented and tested in this master ...

Simulation programs frequently need a large amount of input data. Code dealing with reading input data and initializing data structures can be very tedious to write, especially if the data are to be defined in graphical ...

Modern file systems implements snapshots, or read-only point-in-time representations of the file system. Snapshots can be used to keep a record of the changes made to the data, and improve backups. Previous work had shown ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en tenkt kommunikasjonsplatform mellom en offentlig tjenestetilbyder og en bruker i et sosialt nettverk. Oppgaven beskriver teknikker, peker på teori og fremtidige løsninger

This thesis studies the Health Management Information System (HMIS) and District Health Information System (DHIS 2) focusing on its report formats. It examines the need of improvement on the aspect of its data presentation. ...

MILAS er om modernisering av gamle applikasjoner, og løfte dem opp til et SOA, SaaS nivå. MILAS beskriver en metodikk for hvordan dette kan best gjøres. Metodikken baserer seg på standarder og modelleringsmuligheter. MILAS ...

Oppgaven presenterer et model-basert test-verktøy for automatisert testing av et video-konferanse system.

The district pharmacies use a computerised information system to monitor the flow of products from the central warehouse to health services delivery points. It helps drug logistics and health program managers to determine ...

The thesis presents design and implementation of components for recoding of signals between binary PCM and a bitstream representation. The bitstream representation enables real time signal processing using a power efficient ...

I denne oppgåva skal ein sjå på om det er mogleg og interessant å etablere botnett blant mobiltelefonar der botnettet brukar kommunikasjonstenestene SMS og MMS i mobiltelefonnettet. Det eksisterar per dags dato ikkje ...

Drilling for petroleum resources in remote and harsh environments requires new technology and operational methods. Recent innovation demonstrates feasibility of having future drilling rigs placed directly on the seabed. ...

Abstract Internet has emerged as the largest tool for modern IT enabled businesses. Given the power of Internet in the modern business world, the threats have also increased drastically. Attacks on Internet enabled ...

This work demonstrates how we designed, implemented and tested a distributed information sharing system called MCIS in a novel, autonomic network architecture. We modify a legacy framework for multiple attribute, range ...

Conditional inference plays a central role in logical and Bayesian reasoning, and is used in a wide range of applications. It basically consists of expressing conditional relationship between parent and child propositions, ...

Left ventricular (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF) are important parameters for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning in patients with heart disease. These parameters are commonly measured by manual tracing ...

Specific guanine-rich sequence motifs in the human genome have considerable potential to form four-stranded structures known as G-quadruplexes or G4 DNA. The enrichment of these motifs in key chromosomal regions has suggested ...

Background High-density tiling microarrays are a powerful tool for the characterization of complete genomes. The two major computational challenges associated with custom-made arrays are design and analysis. Firstly, ...

Pathogenic bacteria continuously encounter multiple forms of stress in their hostile environments, which leads to DNA damage. With the new insight into biology offered by genome sequences, the elucidation of the gene content ...

Masteroppgaven tar for seg fenomenet langdistanseledelse og hvordan dette utøves i praksis. Studien tar utgangspunkt i et nordisk forsikringsselskap. Begrepet langdistanseledelse er et relativt nytt begrep, og brukes mest ...

We will, in this thesis, closely investigate the performance of SSDs and magnetic disks. Looking at physical attributes of these two disk technolo- gies, we will try to give an understanding of how they perform in dif- ferent ...

The goal of the research presented in this thesis is to identify user experience patterns based on two user studies of a web-based application for collaborative story-writing. These patterns might be useful for reusing ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg undersøkt hvordan team og prosjektgrupper kommuniserer ved hjelp av IKT, og når det velges ansikt-til-ansikt-møter. Media Richness Theory står sentralt og denne er testet ved hjelp av case. To ...

For å undersøke samarbeidet i parprogrammering kodet vi 44 lydopptak av parprogrammering. Vi delte lydfilene inn i segmenter og tildelte hvert segment til kategorier som vi valgte ut av en samling kategorier som vi hadde ...

The Robotics and Intelligent Systems group conducts research in the interdisciplinary field of robotics, machine learning, reconfigurable hardware and sensing human actions. The group is affiliated to the Department of ...

Modern graphic processing units (GPU) are powerful parallel processing multi-core devices that are found in most computers today. The increase in processing resources of the GPU, coupled with improvements and flexibility ...

This thesis sets out to find out if it is possible to create a system that converts documents between Office Open XML (OOXML), Open Document Format (ODF) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML). In addition to this, some ...

Modern computers often have a powerful graphics processing unit (GPU), either on dedicated graphic cards or integrated on the motherboard. These units can used by applications for demanding computation. Another use of this ...

Målet med oppgaven er å finne svar på en problemstilling som består av en praktisk, og en teoretisk del. Den praktiske delen av problemstillingen er Hvordan kan brukbarheten forbedres i nettbutikken Lille Vinkel Sko? , ...

An expanding wireless industry creates a demand for smaller and smarter devices, while maintaining the high performance requirements. Todays solutions often use off-chip components to meet these demands, which lead to ...

Denne oppgaven studerer den semiotiske betydningen som ligger i systemlydene til Microsoft Windows. Lyder fra tre utgaver av Windows blir analysert: Windows 2000, Windows XP og Windows Vista. Formålet med analysen er å se ...

To be able to create small integrated wireless radio front ends, variable capacitors that can be monolithically integrated on the same chip as the electronic circuits are needed. Today’s radio front ends are based on ...

Oppgaven tar for seg muligheter og utfordringer knyttet til bruk av digitale verktøy i barnehagen. Studien er gjennomført som et praktisk prosjekt i en norsk barnehage i 2007-2008 med fokus på en kvalitativ tilnærming. ...

Oppgaven analyserer 15 forskningsartikler og presenterer en oversikt over hvordan kvalitet er definert og målt i disse artiklene. Alle artiklene omhandler par programmering. Stikkord: Par programmering, programvareutvikling, ...

I oppgaven er det analysert 15 artikler om software inspection, med mål å finne ut hvordan kvalitet og defekt klasser er definert i disse artiklene.

Should we be using relative estimation methods in software effort estimation? This thesis looks into an aspect of agile estimating by comparing the effects of using relative estimation methods with absolute estimation ...

When a program failure occurs, the cause of that failure cannot always be found in the reached state of the program. Back-in-time debuggers address this issue by storing information about the program's execution history, ...

Simulation programs frequently need a large amount of input data. Code dealing with reading input data and initializing data structures can be very tedious to write, especially if the data are to be defined in graphical ...

I dagens samfunn lagres og aksesseres data hver dag, og behovet for samtidig bruk av disse dataene blir bare større og større. Det finnes imidlertid forskjellige grader av isolering som kan benyttes mellom dataene, og man ...

Fokuset på laveffekts design av prosessorer til trådløse sensor nettverk har økt betraktelig de siste årene. Det har blitt designet prosessorkjerner som bruker ned mot 1 picoJoule per instruksjon, og anveldelsene ligger i ...

Cross-correlation gives a measure of the similarity between two signals in the time domain and is desirable in pattern matching and recognition, but other solutions are often sought after due to the heavy computational ...

Identifying and systematizing software practitioners’ perceptions of a problem in development projects is an important first step in searching for a solution to the problem. Moreover, different tiers in an organization ...

Denne oppgaven handler om utviklingen av et spesielt hjelpemiddel til undervisning i digitalteknikk: et program for konstruksjon og simulering av digitale kretser. Med dette kan studentene enkelt tegne små logiske kretser ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver et system for gjenkjenning av tunnelåpninger som er ment for installasjon i bil. Systemet vil hjelpe sjåføren til å fokusere på veien og andre trafikanter når han kjører gjennom en tunnel. Når ...

We consider a fragment of first-order logic known as coherent logic or geometric logic. The essential difference to standard clausal form is that there may be existentially quantified variables in the positive literals of ...

Denne oppgaven omhandler brukermedvirkning ved utvikling av programvareapplikasjoner. Vi er særlig interesserte i hvordan dette utspiller seg når flere ulike målgrupper deltar i medvirkningen. For å finne ut av dette har ...

Oppgaven presentere måter å bruke mobiltelefon med bluetooth og NFC teknologier for å gjøre opplevelsen av å se på TV enklere. Oppgaven ser og på måter å tilby et mer personlig TV program ved bruk av interesser i form av ...

Målet er å utvikle en eksperimentell versjon av et autonomt og leverandøruavhengig robotbasert palleteringssystem. Oppgaven er delt i følgende tre deler: Robotrammeverk - Systemet skal kunne benyttes med roboter fra ...

Jeg viser hvordan mengden av ordinaltall mindre enn Epsilon 0 kan mappes til mengden av trær med forgrening < 3. Oppgaven bygger på forskining av Herman Ruge Jervell, som har gitt en første ordens formel som viser at ...

Model-based software development with UML is becoming a de facto standard in industry. But there is need for more study of actual use of UML in software development companies, especially in ensuring the relevance of research ...

Despite the vast research in Information Security, the human factor has been found to lack interest from the research community, with most security research giving focus on the technological component of an Information ...

Huge amounts of data, like nucleotide and amino acid sequences, are regularly added to the biological databases. These data are then being used by researchers in various ways depending on needs. A common task for many ...

Massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have stringent latency requirements, and must support a large amount of concurrent players. To handle these conflicting requirements, it is common to divide the virtual world into ...

Denne oppgaven omhandler brukerkontroll i kontekstsensitive mobile nettjenester og utforsker ulike kontrollmekanismer som kan brukes før, under eller etter kontekstinformasjon har blitt utvekslet med en nettjeneste. Det ...