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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

Nowadays, the global market offers an enormous variety of external sensors and measuring instruments. In combination with increasingly more powerful mobile devices, it is possible to create new tools which expand their ...

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a new technology introduced in recent generations of Intel processors. SGX is supposed to be able to create a trusted execution environment for user-space software that is protected ...

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 ...

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) ...

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/COM-170081

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The final publication is available at IOS Press.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The goal of this thesis is to model the resolution of referring expressions (e.g., "the red ball") to visual entities in real world. This task is known as visual reference resolution. In order to address it, two types of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online grocery shopping is an increasing trend in many countries. Several studies have been done to investigate different aspects of online grocery shopping. Researchers have found that the likelihood that there will be ...

This paper presents a method of automatic construction extraction from a large corpus of Russian. The term ‘construction’ here means a multi-word expression in which a variable can be replaced with an- other word from the ...

Model-driven engineering is an approach that has increased in popularity during the course of the last couple of decades. In model-driven engineering models are first-class artefacts, which provides the software engineers ...

DDoS attacks have for the last two decades been among the greatest threats facing the internet infrastructure. Mitigating DDoS attacks is a particularly challenging task. It is known that ordinary signature based detection ...

The concrete problem this paper addresses is the following: Given a set of objects with a spatial interpretation and a set of qualitative relations, construct a bintree representation that returns the same answers to queries ...

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 ...

Background: Studies on medication safety in pregnancy often rely on an oversimplification of medication use into exposed or non-exposed, without considering intensity and timing of use in pregnancy, or concomitant medication ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this paper, we present results from a research through design inquiry into the design space of second-hand use of consumer goods and their potential for creating more sustainable and less consumerism-oriented lifestyles. ...

Previously, we have worked on verification of railway regulations against CAD designs, and integrated a verification engine into the tool chain of railway engineers. This tool was used successfully in a pilot project at ...

This thesis presents work towards a comprehensive set of methods to extract quantitative shape features and infarct information from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging data to enable classification of a heart disease state ...

This thesis is a case study of Uber. The research questions are 1. How do ridesharing platforms evolve from startups into large-scale market disrupters? 2. How can ridesharing platforms augment its user base and capture ...

Virtual Reality (VR) for scientific visualization has been researched from the 90s, but there has been little research into the fundamental aspects of VR for scientific visualisation. Questions like "Is VR ready for ...

In this thesis the focus will be on the speed of light, and how one may reduce its impact on performance. For each remote invocation, there is an associated overhead that corresponds to the latency between the respective ...

This paper explores openness and its role and relevance in creating an opportunity for sustained innovation through design thinking in organizations such as libraries. There is a growing recognition of design thinking as ...

Synthetic aperture sonar images contain geometric distortions intrinsic to the imaging modality such as layover and shadow. These distortions cause information gaps in the image that are dependent on view aspect. It is ...

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 ...

Samtidig som digitaliseringen av tjenester i samfunnet foregår, øker også viktigheten av at disse tjenestene designes og utvikles med tanke på universell utforming. Diskriminerings- og tilgjengelighetsloven skal bidra til ...

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 ...

Identifying different types of terrains is an important ability for every legged robot to achieve a stable locomotion. A variety of sensors has been applied to different robots in order to discriminate between terrains ...

As a complex security tool, the Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) goes beyond the role of a traditional firewall, by detecting any network security threats with its advanced monitoring of network traffic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recommendation systems help users find interesting items and reduce the information overflow problem on websites. Much research has been conducted on such systems the last decades, and there exist several recommendation ...