Managing requirements are an integral part in any type of software development. In generic open source software projects, this process is increasingly difficult. Designing generic requirements and balancing the needs of ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en deltakende designprosess hvor målet har vært å undersøke hvordan kommunikasjon gjennom NAVs nettsider kan designes for og med sårbare brukere. NAV holder i dag på å digitalisere de fleste av ...

The use of technology to address mental health among youth in Norway is gaining traction, with many measures being implemented from the public sphere. Literature claims that peer-support can help alleviate some of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tingenes internett tegner et bilde hvor et stadig økende antall nye og eksisterende enheter blir tilkoblet og integrert med internett. Å bruke eksisterende internett infrastruktur gir økt tilgjengelighet og mulighet for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Etter sin introduksjon i det smidige manifestet (Beck et al., 2001) har smidige metoder blitt den foretrukne tilnærmingen for utvikling av IT-systemer. Metodene har endret systemutviklingsfaget etter at de har vist seg ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a move to fight undernutrition, Rwanda's Ministry of Health has requested software for child growth follow-up over time. Improving the health status of the population is a priority, as undernutrition can cause permanent ...

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 ...

Co-channel interference is the most significant degrader of quality of service in 802.11 Wi-Fi in dense residential areas. The number of observed neighbouring networks can grow as large as 20-30 networks in a modern apartment ...

Virtual reality technology has recently had a revival with new VR-hardware being introduced to the consumer market. This can be considered a turning point in the field as it has now become more accessible and affordable ...

Musicians often use tools such as loop-pedals and multitrack recorders to assist in improvisation and songwriting. While these devices are useful in creating new compositions from scratch, they do not contribute to the ...

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 ...

Mental health is a growing concern in today's society. Mental disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression affects one in four adults at some point in their life, and is one of the leading causes of disability. This ...

When it comes to the analysis of biological sequences, alignment based methods have long been in the forefront for finding similarities between sequences, and in the classification of genetic sequences. Many of these methods ...

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 ...

This Master’s thesis describes two case studies of mobile delivery robots operating in hospitals by moving equipment and goods between depart- ments where human employees work. Through contextual interviews with employees ...

In this master thesis, I explore how the creation of music can be facilitated to encourage curiosity and exploration through tangible interaction. The objective was to see how we can create new and rich musical experiences ...

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 ...

This thesis is an exploratory study based on a participatory design project that unfolded at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology during 2017 and early 2018. In this project, four museum researchers engaged with ...

Modern passports—as well as several other ID and travel documents—are so called electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTD). These are documents that conform to Doc 9303, a specification published by the International ...

This thesis is an exploratory study of technology use among the elderly. The study is part of the MECS (Multimodal Elderly Care Systems) project. As part of the study, qualitative data has been collected using multiple ...

In this thesis, we make and evaluate procedures for converting between different lexical semantic representations. We implement three different methods for converting from vector space models to graph models: the threshold ...

Integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into Smart Homes is currently quite cumbersome. This thesis presents a novel approach on integrating energy devices, e.g. washing machines, heat pumps and other devices into ...

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 ...

Gjennom forskning har det blitt vist at modulær smarttelefon er en smarttelefon sammensatt av ulike moduler på en plattform. Modulær smarttelefon er ment for at brukere kan beholde sine smarttelefoner lenger ved å bytte ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is currently working to eliminate malnutrition and stunting in children less than five years. The backbone of this project has been the development of the Rwandan Fortified Blended Foods ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The purpose of this project is to adapt Named Entity Recognition (NER) to the conflict research domain. The conflict domain is represented by data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). We want to build up the ...

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 ...

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