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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under health reforms for establishing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in developing countries, it becomes imperative that health care should be made accessible to each and every citizen of the population at affordable ...

Machine-learning based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems provide significant value to organizations because they can efficiently detect previously unseen variations of known threats, new threats related to known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Containerization has become an issue of increased importance to scientific computing and software engineering. The use of scientific software is increasing to advance science and technology. This software is developed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...