The goal for this thesis is to optimize an SQL Engine called Apache Drill that sits on top of a distributed file system, for more cost-effective big data handling, business intelligence and advanced analytics. To achieve ...

Big data is an emerging concept involving complex data sets which can give new insight and distill new knowledge. In the other hand, Hadoop MapReduce paradigm, a distributed computing software, has been adopted widely in ...

This thesis develops document-level sentiment analysis for Norwegian. First we present the Norwegian Review Corpus (NoReC) -- the first publicly available sentiment dataset for Norwegian, consisting of over 35,000 reviews ...

Digitalisering er blitt et moteord, og kan forstås som å implementere gamle prosesser og prosedyrer i digital form. Hvorfor gjenskape stearinlys i ny teknologi? Hvorfor ikke aktivere helt nye prosesser og dermed skape ...

All software development today is engineered by some form of delivery pipeline regardless of there nature. Within this paradigm of release engineering which may or may not be continuously integrated, there within lies the ...

Wind turbines are increasing in popularity as a power source around the world, and are among the cheapest sources of energy. They introduce problems related to the volatile nature of the wind, and the uncertainty of the ...

There is implicit trust involved when using computer software. Open-source software attempts to inspire more trust, by giving access to the source code. Nevertheless, malicious compilers or someone with malicious intent ...

The research into extrinsic calibration of LiDAR with a stereo rig has been relatively dormant. Meanwhile, the sensor combination has seen a surge in popularity due to their strengths in usage on autonomous vehicles. In ...

Nowadays there is an increasing amount of technology used to improve businesses. An important aspect of the business is planning on how to use available resource effectively to gain profit. As an example of a business ...

PHP is a leading server-side scripting language for developing dynamic web sites. Given the prevalence, PHP applications have become the common targets of attacks. One cannot rely on the programmers alone to deliver a ...

The recent surge in research towards general artificial intelligence has produced a wealth of promising techniques, which when utilized for traditional robotics tasks can give rise to new and interesting algorithms. This ...

Some data transfers on the Internet today don't need to complete their transmission as early as possible, yet they may still benefit from a loose guarantee of timeliness. Examples include online backups, non-critical system ...

Insider threats constitute a major problem for many organizations. Traditional security mechanisms, such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls, do not represent optimal solutions for insider threat detection and ...

Medisinsk forskning har behov for deltakere. Uten nok deltakere og et representativt utvalg kan det føre til et seleksjonsbias. Dette vil redusere muligheten for generalisering av resultatene (Agoritsas, Deom, & Perneger, ...

With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), there is growing number of interconnected devices being developed with concerning security vulnerabilities. Consequently we are ex- periencing attacks and breaches that are ...

Virtual Reality (VR) have experienced a resurgence in recent years with the introduction of the Oculus Rift, and this new market have made the technology widely available for consumers. With this renewed popular interest ...

The One Versus Rest (OVR) method of building classifiers has fallen out of favor with machine learning researchers in recent years. When used, it is mostly only with older binary linear classifiers such as Support Vector ...

In the last decade, the number of Internet-users have increased exponentially, and the amount of service and systems data they create have also increased accordingly. Users are often using different devices which generate ...

With the ever growing server density and infrastructures encompassed in data centers, heat generation and power dissipation has increased drastically. This has brought a serious impact on system performance and reliability. ...

There is a growth in the number of solar panel installations in residential homes in Norway, and the process of installing has become effortless with the assistance of various actors. However, the experience of having solar ...

Cloud computing is one of the fastest emerging technology. Increase in demands of cloud computing leads to increase in data centers. These data center consists of a huge number of interconnected Physical Machines (PMs). ...

Existing bicycle locks do not meet current security requirements. A bicycle is for many people a big investment that very often ends up like an inventory in the entrance, storage room, bedroom or living room. However, the ...

By default, the Linux network stack is not configured for high-speed large file transfer. The reason behind this is to merely save memory resources. We may tune the Linux network stack by increasing network buffers size ...

The use of public key cryptosystems range from securely encrypting emails and files to creating digital signatures for non-repudiation. The security of public key cryptosystems is based on computationally "unsolvable" ...

In today's digital world cloud computing is key and it is growing. At the same time we are trying to maximize resource utilization. Running big, old general-purpose operating systems on virtual machines in the cloud is not ...

For å forhindre smitte på et sykehus er det viktig med gode hygieneforhold og dermed er det også viktig med gode rutiner på renholdet. For å minke sannsynligheten for smitte er det nødvendig å holde ulike områder så rene ...

In this thesis, we aim to find suitable automatic evaluation metrics for evaluating topic models in the Aftenposten news domain. We review and experiment with six evaluation metrics from previous research which are potentially ...

The field of medicine has a history of adopting new technology. Video equipment and sensors are used to visualize areas of interest in the human allowing for doctors to make diagnoses based on imagery observations. However, ...

Denne oppgaven handler om Universell Utforming av IKT og drøfter om simuleringer av funksjonsnedsettelser kan være en nyttig måte å oppdage tilgjengelighetsproblemer på og å skape empati. Jeg har intervjuet front-end ...

Globalization is affecting our daily life more and more every day. In addition to affecting every and each person, it is also affecting businesses around the globe and to cope with it managers and other decision-makers ...

Post translational modifications (PTMs) are chemical modifications to proteins that regulate many protein functions. Recently, PTMs found on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) bound epitopes specific to cancer cells have become ...

In this thesis we have explored the possibility that mutations occurring at DNA-level might coincide and even be the cause of particular gene fusions at the RNA-level, and have created methods of analysis, integrating both ...

This thesis contains the description of the design and implementation of a basic framework for research on how plants behave in controlled environments. The framework is capable of controlling lighting with a pair of ...

In this work, we create and make available two benchmark data sets for evaluating models of semantic word similarity for Norwegian. While such resources are available for English, they did not exist for Norwegian prior to ...

One of the actual problems that health workers in Malawi experience now is lack of unified information system which would handle all medical records management in points of care. Instead medical staff has to rely on obsolete ...

One of the actual problems that health workers in Malawi experience now is lack of unified information system which would handle all medical records management in points of care. Instead medical staff has to rely on obsolete ...

The finite element method has for some time been a popular choice for approximating PDEs over a geometry domain. We usually use a FEM mesh that matches the geometry description. By FEM mesh we mean the mesh where we find ...

Emerging infrastructure-less network architectures such as WSNs consist of devices that perform packet processing in software. General-purpose network simulators do currently not possess models to simulate the intra-node ...

One LBE to rule them all and to the deadline bind them

This thesis presents the findings from the experiments on statistical machine translation (SMT) between Norwegian and English. First of all, we have extracted a parallel corpus for the language pair of Norwegian and English ...

Mental health is an important part of how we perceive our state of well-being. It is this state that help us tackle the positive and negative obstacles that life bring. When bad mental health becomes a problem, it can ...

This thesis addresses the topic of how an information system can be used in another domain than that of its origin. Previous research has emphasized how some software packages are designed to work across different organizations ...

Reinforcement learning is a research field concerned with automatically solving problems by trial and error. With each trial, a reinforcement learning agent extracts information about the problem. The agent can choose to ...

Vi undersøker om PRAM-modellen fra 1978 egner seg for å analysere kjøretiden til parallelle algoritmer på en generell, flerkjernet datamaskin med en tradisjonell arkitektur. Vi utfører teoretisk analyse av en håndfull ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg hvordan man kan inkludere barn i en deltakende designprosess. Forskningsspørsmålet er formulert slik: «Hva skal til for at barn kan være med å designe?» Prosjektet sitt formål har vært å gi en ...

Designing to support diabetes self-management in Mitchells Plain, South Africa

Sequencing projects are using paired-end reads to compensate for the relatively short length of the reads obtained by some sequencing technologies such as Illumina. To take advantage of the resulting paired-end reads, we ...

This thesis investigates which technical and organizational factors that enable or constrain user participation in design when implementing a generic health information software. More specifically, it focuses on user ...

Sleep apnea is a very common, yet severely under-diagnosed disorder characterized by reoccurring periods of shallow or paused breathing during sleep. If a breathing disruption causes the oxygen saturation in the blood to ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

The online advertising market in Norway is dominated by big players such as Facebook and Google. In this thesis, we explore this situation and the challenges of the Norwegian advertising industry in the online advertising ...

Matching a segment of an environment with a virtual 3D representation of the environment can help with inspecting buildings and constructions without manual measurements. This thesis focuses on the research and design of ...

Background: Teams in large-scale agile programs need to achieve collaborative software development. A proposed guide to collaboration is effective coordination. Large-scale agile software development is well accepted in ...

Solar energy is one of the most influenceable renewable resources. Photovoltaic(PV) system is widely used in converting solar energy into electricity. Therefore, monitoring the working state of PV systems in real-time to ...

This master thesis explores how to make and use research products to mediate the state of the phenomenal body and generate new knowledge about their meaning for people with health challenges. Specifically, the thesis ...

Stadig flere selskaper tar nå i bruk skytjenester. Det er denne veien markedet beveger seg, noe som tvinger kundene etter. Det er klare forretningsmessige og teknologiske fordeler ved å ta i bruk skytjenester. Dette studiet ...