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, ...

To understand a robot's intent and behavior, a robot engineer must analyze data at the input and output, but also at all intermediary steps. This might require looking at a specific subset of the system, or a single data ...

This thesis demonstrates how metaheuristic algorithms can be used to find valid configurations for context-aware software. To represent families of context-aware software, the thesis describes and uses Context-dependent ...

Cloud Computing has seen a tremendous popularity in last several years. A scalable and efficient data center network is essential for a performance capable cloud computing infrastructure. This thesis provides practical ...

This paper addresses the basic implementation and possible competitiveness of an ontology-based ranking method, that for a SPARQL query under construction, generates a ranking of likely extensions, based on a set of past ...

The advent of the Internet of Things, sensor and social networks, to mention just a few examples, all contribute towards the solid establishment of the Big Data era. High Performance Computing (HPC) becomes necessary for ...

Background: Recent large-scale undertakings such as ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics have generated experimental data mapped to the human reference genome (as genomic tracks) representing a variety of functional elements ...

Today, there exists a wide range of services and applications across several platforms that are prone to attacks. Attackers find new ways to exploit malfunctions and vulnerabilities within these systems every day. There ...

Small, low cost, radar systems have exciting applications in monitoring and imaging for the industrial, healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. We here explore, and show the feasibility of, several single bit ...

We report on our experience in ontology-based data access to the Slegge database at Statoil and share the resources employed in this use case: end-user information needs (in natural language), their translations into SPARQL, ...

Cross-domain information exchange is an increasingly important capability for conducting efficient and secure operations, both within coalitions and within single nations. A data guard is a common cross-domain sharing ...

Power consumption of physical and virtual machines is a major challenge for small to larg-scale cloud computing data centers. Hundreds of thousands of physical and virtual machines run in cloud data center which consume ...

Purpose: Chemotherapy-induced alterations to gene expression are due to transcriptional reprogramming of tumor cells or subclonal adaptations to treatment. The effect on whole-transcriptome mRNA expression was investigated ...

Most Software Product Lines are built from a set of existing products, that is re-engineered into reusable assets following feature location approaches. Traditional feature location approaches target program code, neglecting ...

Wave-motion modeling and mathematical optimization have a vast variety of applications in research and industry. Marcus Noack, PhD fellow at Simula Research Laboratory, delved deep into the theoretical and numerical ...

Computational models of cardiac mechanics, personalized to a patient, offer access to mechanical information above and beyond direct medical imaging. Additionally, such models can be used to optimize and plan therapies ...

Objective: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often have abnormal ECGs. Our aim was to separate the effects on ECG by airway obstruction, emphysema and right ventricular (RV) afterload in patients ...

Cardiac computational models, individually personalized, can provide clinicians with useful diagnosticinformation and aid in treatment planning. A major bottleneck in this process can be determining modelparameters to fit ...

Purpose: Circulating chromogranin B (CgB) levels are increased in situations characterized by systemic and myocardial stress, but whether CgB provides prognostic information in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) ...

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Genomic locations are represented as coordinates on a specific genome build version, but the build information is frequently missing when coordinates are provided. We show that this information is essential to correctly ...

Optimisation is a basic principle of nature and has a vast variety of applications in research and industry. There is a plurality of different optimisation procedures which exhibit different strengths and weaknesses in ...

Acoustic waves propagating in anisotropic media are important for various applications. Even though these wave phenomena do not generally occur in nature, they can be used to approximate wave motion in various physical ...

There has been a trend in city development for a little under a decade for cities to become “smart cities”, where recent innovations in technology such as big data processing, IoT, and AI are intended to transform the way ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed for men and the second most for women. Today's main methods of examination are expensive, time consuming and intrusive for the patient. Recent technologies, ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed for men and the second most for women. Today’s main methods of examination are expensive, time consuming and intrusive for the patient. Recent technologies, ...

In this master thesis, I explore how the field of Interaction Design might contribute in creating new platforms for engagement and expression, by involving a participatory culture of skateboarders in a Do It Yourself (DIY) ...

This volume contains the papers presented at the workshops associated with the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2017. The workshops were held in Oslo, Norway, on 27th September 2017. ...

This thesis presents an in-depth contrastive error analysis of a set of semantic dependency parsing systems. Based on the empirical results of our analysis we found semantic frame classification to be an interesting case ...

In this paper we extend previous work on using bintrees as an efficient representation for qualitative information about spatial objects. Our approach represents each spatial object as a bintree satisfying the exact same ...

Distributional semantic models learn vector representations of words through the contexts they occur in. Although the choice of context (which often takes the form of a sliding window) has a direct influence on the resulting ...

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In this paper we study the evolution of ontologybased data access (OBDA) specifications, and focus on the case in which the ontology and/or the data source schema change, which may require a modification to the mapping ...

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 ...

Live media streaming applications are increasingly popular, with services such as Twitch.tv and YouNow being used by millions of people. Deploying such services on the cloud can be very expensive, as the cost is proportional ...

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 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 ...

Over the last decade gamification has been emerging as an engaging technology to promote learning. However, the majority of research on game inspired learning has focused on children and adolescents. In this project I am ...

The book aims to be a resource for those interested in planning and implementing large-scale information infrastructures for novel electronic services in health care. The focus of this book is on the pivotal role of the ...

Background The disease and phenotype track was designed to evaluate the relative performance of ontology matching systems that generate mappings between source ontologies. Disease and phenotype ontologies ...

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 ...

Noise. It is around us, everywhere, all the time. It is hard to control, hard to shut out. It affects our health, sometimes even without us noticing it. Noise is one form of pollution, and is causing annoyance and other ...

Reliable CCS monitoring is vital in order to confirm that injected CO2 stays in the reservoir as intended, and that any occurring leakage is promptly detected allowing corrective actions to be initiated. Motivations for ...

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 ...

This paper describes an emerging shared repository of large-text resources for creating word vectors, including pre-processed corpora and pre-trained vectors for a range of frameworks and configurations. This will facilitate ...

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 ...

Percutaneous image-guided tumor ablation is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of malignant tumors using a needle-shaped ablation probe. Automating the insertion of a needle by using a robot could ...

Less than Best Effort (LBE) transports are transport protocols that use spare bandwidth left by Best Effort (BE) transports to fulfill their own data transfer tasks. Such kind of protocols can be used by non-delay/bandwidth ...

The main aim of the thesis is to contribute to a semi-autonomous active sensing system for needle tracking during percutaneous needle insertion. The objective is twofold: first to develop a system for acquiring ultrasound ...

Online survey applications enable researchers to create and distribute surveys in a cost-effective way. However, respondents may feel reluctant to participate in surveys collecting sensitive personal information if they ...

An important open problem in robotic planning is the autonomous generation of 3D inspection paths – that is, planning the best path to move a robot along in order to inspect a target structure. We recently suggested a new ...

A memory model dictates which values may be returned when reading from memory. In a parallel computing setting, the memory model affects how processes communicate through shared memory. The design of a proper memory model ...

Biometric systems have to address many requirements, such as large population coverage, demographic diversity, varied deployment environment, as well as practical aspects like performance and spoofing attacks. Traditional ...

In recent years, it has come to attention that governments have been doing mass surveillance of personal communications without the consent of the citizens. As a consequence of these revelations, developers have begun ...

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 ...

I denne oppgaven utforsker jeg konseptet nysgjerrighet ved å se på om det er mulig å designe digitale grensesnitt som kan fremkaller nysgjerrighet. For å forske på dette har jeg valgt å fokusere på science ...

Fast and efficient communication is crucial for workers that are required to collaborate. Instant messaging has been found to be more efficient than email and other asynchronous messaging systems when used for asking quick ...

Many health professionals in developing countries lack the proper competence for the work they are doing. Tooltips have previously proven to be effective, and may assist such health professionals in their daily routines ...

DHIS2 has established itself as de facto standard for health management information system in developing countries. While DHIS2 provides tools for collecting, analysing and visualising data, history shows that data is often ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more integrated with our daily lives for each passing day. Some households are already equipped with smart devices which perform tasks such as monitoring the indoor climate to mowing ...

The Tanzanian health commodity supply chain has gradually improved since the decentralisation of the health information system began in 1999. As a part of the decentralisation process, the supply chain management has ...

The enterprise architect profession is a relatively young profession that came about with the inception of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in the 1980’s. As more companies adopt EA, the demand for enterprise architects to ...

Classification societies date back to the second half of the 18th century, where marine insurers developed a system for independent technical assessment of the ships presented to them for insurance cover. Today, a major ...

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 ...

Background: The potential of mobile health technology is increasing with the development of smartphones. Realizing the potential for specific user groups is something that has not been the focus of either research or ...

Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI) har sammen med Kongsberg Maritime utviklet det autonome undervannsfarkostet (AUV) HUGIN som ved hjelp av ulike sensorer navigerer ubemannet og kartlegger havbunnen ved bruk av sonar og ...

This thesis investigates the issue of change impact analysis in a special case of health information system: the Cancer Registry of Norway. The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) is an institution dedicated to the population-based ...

Most Health Information Systems (HIS) in developing countries are fragmented and characterized by multiple overlapping and/or duplicate sub-HIS. The fragmentation of HIS is further identified by many researchers as the ...

The aim of this thesis is to describe advanced computer network operations, investigate the present status of national defence efforts and suggest measures that may improve that status. In the first part, the traits of ...

Integration of health information systems (HIS) in developing countries has received a great deal of attention over the last ten years. Most academic writing on this subject has been concerned with the integration of health ...

Renewable energy sources, and thus PV are experiencing exponential growth due to most current energy production still relies on fossil fuels, and energy demands are steadily increasing. If the performance of PV could be ...

Background and Objective: For more than a decade, computer-assisted surgical systems have been helping surgeons to plan liver resections. The most widespread strategies to plan liver resections are: drawing traces in ...