Presset og kravet til IT-enheter i selskaper har økt når det gjelder å effektivisere og å profesjonalisere måten de utøver sine Service Management prosesser. IT-tjenestene har i de siste 20 årene endret seg og blitt mer ...

Det stilles stadig høyere krav til effektivitet og produktivitet fra kunnskapsarbeideren. Det forventes for eksempel at det skal leveres langt raskere konklusjoner på store oppgaver nå enn tidligere. Denne masteroppgaven ...

Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is a popular communication paradigm in the design of large-scale distributed systems. We are witnessing an increasingly widespread use of pub/sub for a wide array of applications both in industry ...

Today, the traditional File Server does not seem to be the only one and no longer the good enough way to manage documents for many organizations. Many have chosen SharePoint to improve their managing of documents and cover ...

Basert på et case i DNB tar jeg, med bakgrunn i en teoretisk oversikt over risiko, for meg risiko og utfordringer prosjektet møtte. Jeg ser på tiltak som ble gjort for å justere kursen i prosjektet. Til slutt ser jeg på ...

In the wake of ‘the mobile revolution’ there has been an immense upsurge in mobile phone based health innovations, or mHealth for short. Expected efficiency gains and health benefits with such innovations, however, have ...

Reproduserbarhet er et viktig prinsipp i den vitenskapelige metoden. I den siste tiden har mengden med ureproduserbar forskning økt. Forskere ved avdeling for Biomedisinsk Forskning ved Universitetet i Oslo har nylig avslørt ...

This paper empirically explores the importance of social capital for the integration of Health Information Systems (HISs) by drawing a case study from Gujarat state of India HIS integration initiative. In light of the main ...

Inspired by animals ability to learn and adapt to changes in their environment during life, hybrid evolutionary algorithms which include local optimization between generations have been developed and successfully applied ...

It is not a hidden fact that, in today s wireless and cellular networks, businesses and end users have clearly become dependent on mobility and the freedom of being always online. Smart phones, tablets and other devices ...

We present an in-depth analysis of Curriculum Vitae documents consisting of unstructured text. We present a collection of Curriculum Vitae Topics with description. We introduce an ontology that gives a formal description ...

This thesis is about the relations between humans and machines, or more precisely, between humans and automation by way of ICTs. Automation can increase both human autonomy as well as human dependence on automation. While ...

PSNR is to this day the most common metric used to measure video quality, despite having been shown for decades to do so with very limited accuracy. Better metrics have been standardised, but their implementations are ...

This dissertation is organized as a collection of papers, where each paper represents original research contributions relating to the design and analysis of ultra low power CMOS, with a particular emphasis on ultra low ...

In this thesis, we propose a new method for finding Topologically Associating Domains, which are contiguous segments of chromatin, ranging in size from thousands to millions of base pairs. These domains, which are apparent ...

IncludeOS is developed as a minimal, specialized operating system for running in a cloud platform. Through this Thesis we focus on utilizing this lightweight operating system to simulate live migration. It helps us to ...

Forsvaret skal gjennom et materiellprosjekt ta frem en kommunikasjonsløsning, Taktisk kommunikasjonsnode, som har behov for et bredt spekter av kommunikasjonstjenester, blant annet en løsning for styring og overvåking. ...

Today, industrial and service robots are used all over the world to handle sim- ple repetitive tasks as well as more complex tasks. Many warehouses use robots for their logistical tasks, while warehouse employees only need ...

The six transmembrane protein of prostate 2 (STAMP2) is an androgen‐regulated gene whose mRNA expression is increased in prostate cancer (PCa). Here, we show that STAMP2 protein expression is increased in human PCa compared ...

Learning how to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts, and this study addresses the need for sustainable and effective training solutions, and an approach to nurture local users ...

This master thesis overviews the fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and their role in future transport. It describes the key challenges in security with a focus on ...

Background Copy number aberrations frequently occur during the development of many cancers. Such events affect dosage of involved genes and may cause further genomic instability and progression of cancer. In this survey, ...

Individuals are nowadays surrounded by several personal multimedia capable devices. On the other hand, the popularity of the multimedia applications is increasing and new application domains are constantly emerging. In ...

The main concern of this thesis is finding optimal ways of obtaining information from software users with a special focus on long-term studies on momentary opinion, meaning the short-term opinion that people have at the ...

We have developed a proof of concept for allowing a PCI Express device attached to one computer to be used by another computer without any software intermediate on the data path. The device driver runs on a physically ...

For at dagens ungdom og fremtidens voksne skal kunne benytte seg av sitt fullstendige helse- og omsorgstilbud, forutsettes det at de kjenner sin helserett. Dette er et komplisert fagfelt som kan være vanskelig og tungt å ...

Fragmentation of health information systems is a common issue in the world today. Aid agencies and other organizations that seek to resolve a problem in developing countries often introduce their own vertical systems which ...

Learning how to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts, and this study addresses the need for sustainable and effective training solutions, and an approach to nurture local users ...

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from ...

How to improve the learning methods for beginners and students in the earlier stages of learning programming is a matter debated among students, lecturers and developers. This master thesis investigates whether visualisation ...

More and more devices connect to the internet, this means that a lot sensitive information will be stored in various networks. In order to secure this information and manage the large amount of inevitable network traffic ...

Hybrid cloud technology is becoming increasingly popular as it merges private and public cloud to bring the best of two worlds together. However, due to the heterogeneous cloud installation, facilitating a hybrid cloud ...

We have implemented and evaluated an independent implementation of the CAIA Delay-Gradient congestion control in the Linux operating system. We made several adjustments or improvements to the design of CDG in our implementation. ...

Cloud computing is one of the most discussed areas in computer science in the last years. Although there is an extensive amount of research covering this field, the field of bio-inspired cloud computing is underinvestigated ...

Today, large and complex solutions are needed to provide the services that users require, where cloud-based solutions have been the panacea to help solve this problem. However, these solutions, are complex in the nature ...

As cloud computing and the use of virtual machines (VMs) have become a widespread phenomenon, a wide variety of optimization techniques have been invented for this field. One of them is live migration, which enables ...

The paper describes the philosophy, design, functionality, and usage of the Python software toolbox Chaospy for performing uncertainty quantification via polynomial chaos expansions and Monte Carlo simulation. The paper ...

This master thesis report from a project where I have been doing Participatory Design in four different classes. The background area is taxes as many youths have problems understanding why this is relevant for them. I have ...

This paper is concerned with how two design processes that are seemingly very similar, human-computer interaction design and design thinking, affect innovation in the context of an academic library. Twenty different ...

A comparison against dirty checking and KVO. This thesis explores the use of virtual DOM to render application content to the DOM.The method will be compared against the main rendering alternatives of today, dirty checking ...

Object recognition and segmentation of objects is a complex task. Our goal is to develop an algorithm that can recognize and segment wound objects in images. We attempt to solve the object recognition and segmentation ...

Non-sterile pathogen-induced sepsis and sterile inflammation like in trauma or ischemia–reperfusion injury may both coincide with the life threatening systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multi-organ failure. ...

The amount of data in today's digital world is growing day by day. Visualization is considered as the best form of communication because the human brain perceives it much faster than the text data that comprises with ...

Network troubleshooting is a field where automation is sorely needed. While the network has grown in many other ways since 1960s, the tools we use to troubleshoot and manage it have stayed very much the same. Could we use ...

This thesis presents a prototype of a dynamic load balancing algorithm designed for compilation servers. The algorithm takes a user ID and finds the optimal compilation server for the user based on the historical CPU and ...

Creating a chunk structure for Norwegian using the Norwegian Dependency Treebank, and evaluating a genetic algorithm for predicting a chunk structure on sentences

Cloud computing is growing fast and becoming more and more popular. The computing resources such as CPU and memory are becoming cheaper and the servers grow more and more powerful by the time. This enables clouds to host ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg feilanalyse i open-domain spørsmål-svar-systemer. Vi konstruerer et system, analyserer dette for feil og forsøker å automatisere feilanalyseprosessen.

Exploring the Design of Authentication With Teenage Patients

This work suggests a method to study mutual shaping between technologies and law drawing on empirical evidence from two different and simultaneously developing patient-oriented information systems in e-health. The approach ...

When you re using your mobile device, you can connect to several wireless networks at the same time, such as 3G (HSPA) / 4G (LTE) and WiFi. These links could be used at the same time to increase the download speed or make ...

This thesis presents a design companion created by taking key concepts from such games and combining them with state of the art gamification frameworks, the purpose of which is to create collaborative user experiences. The ...

Denne oppgaven handler om utfordringer ved å innføre IT-system i organisasjoner. For å forstå slike hendelsesforløp er det ut fra tidligere forskning viktig å studere endring i både teknologi og organisasjon. Videre viser ...

Schistosoma haematobium causes female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which is a poverty-related disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, it is co-endemic with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and biopsies from genital ...

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly ...

Flerkjerne-prosessorer som grafikkprosessorer (GPUer) og Xeon Phi leverer enorm beregningskraft med et lavt effektforbruk. Denne egenskapen har ført til at slike prosesseringsenheter på kort tid har blitt svært populære ...

Eurobot is an annual robotics competition. Teams from different countries composed of mostly students but also independent teams participate. This year s title was Robomovies, and the competition were held in Yverdon-Les-Bains ...

We study the use of OpenGL ES to achieve hardware acceleration of nonlinear image transformations, in particular, performing fish-eye undistortion. We outline a hierarchy of transformations and describe interpolation ...

In this master thesis, we present the overall impact on user experience, when using in-air gestures to manipulate 3D objects in a Geographical Information System (GIS). We also discuss our attempt at integrating Oculus ...

The purpose of this report is investigate the usage of algorithms aimed to optimize big data cluster configurations. Such a configuration might have many properties, and three different algorithms is presented with different ...

3D printers have in recent years become extremely popular. Even though 3D printing technology have existed since the late 1980's, it is now considered one of the most significant technological breakthroughs of the twenty-first ...

Children participation during design process, where young people are assigned the role of a design partner, is challenging traditional power relations between the adults and young people. In order to address these issues, ...

The Nao robot seemingly has capabilities of doing interesting Evolutionary Robotics research and experiments. Implementing an evolutionary learn- ing platform capable of such research has therefore been realised in this ...

Correctly predicting price movements in stock markets carries obvious economical benefits. The task is traditionally solved by analyzing the underlying company, or the historical price development of the company s stock. ...

Colon cancer accounts for almost 10% of all cancer cases worldwide. It is also the fourth most common cause of death from cancer globally. However, many cases of colon cancer could be prevented by early screening and removal ...

Automatisk orddeling er en viktig del av dagens systemer for tekstsetting. Dessverre skjer ikke dette uten feil. Systemene tilbyr heller ingen kontroll over hvilke typer regler som skal benyttes ved orddeling. I det norske ...

There is an increasing need for sensitive, high perfomance sequence alignemnet tools. With the growing databases of scientificly analyzed protein sequences, more compute power is necessary. Specialized architectures arise, ...

A football match can be determined by the smallest factors such as mood, however, but other factors as injuries can determine whether you place first or second. The teams with the least injuried players would have a better ...

In this master thesis, we present the overall impact on user experience, when using in-air gestures to manipulate 3D objects in a Geographical Information System (GIS). We also discuss our attempt at integrating Oculus ...

This qualitative research aims to study mobile payment in Norway and China from the perspective of infrastructures. To gain a deep understanding of mobile payment, my journey started from the understanding of preceding ...

The goal of this thesis is to assess the security assurance of mobile banking software, and to identify the most relevant threats to its software and infrastructure. This threat analysis is done by utilizing CAPEC and STRIDE.

This paper describes a semi-supervised approach to improving statistical dependency parsing using dependency-based word clusters. After applying a baseline parser to unlabeled text, clusters are induced using K-means with ...

The process of stereo vision matches one or more images to recover the depth information of the pictured scene. Great progress is currently being made within this field, with algorithmic research, computational power ...

The primary goals of this thesis was to design and implement a hardware friendly Zynq-based CGP algorithm and investigate the acceleration potential. It was made several attempts to find out if it was possible to increase ...

Introduction Renal cell carcinoma with the distinct type of t(6;11)(p21;q12) translocation (transcription factor EB) is a rare neoplasm. In the present case study, we show for the first time an autophagy ...

This thesis investigates how tangible user interfaces (TUI) can make things easier compared to the elderly people s current living situation. Domain-knowledge of common age impairments and details of TUIs have been collected ...

High bitrate video has been exceedingly popular in recently, especially in soccer and gaming tournaments. A system which records soccer games and generate panorama videos can be found in the Bagadus system\cite{bagadusS}. ...

PSNR is to this day the most common metric used to measure video quality, despite having been shown for decades to do so with very limited accuracy. Better metrics have been standardised, but their implementations are ...

In this study, we analyzed the prevalence and clone size of BRAF V600E mutation in 209 patients with multiple myeloma and related the results to clinical phenotype, response and survival. Biopsies were screened for BRAF ...

Health Information System (HIS) plays an important role in a country s health system. Within HIS hierarchy, the data is collected from the lowest level and aggregated to the upper levels. Subsequently, the data is expected ...