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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis presents new optimisation methods for daily planning in hospitals. Implemented in software, these methods can contribute to shorter waiting times for urgently ill patients, such as cancer patients, as well a ...

Skilled developers are important to the software industry. In empirical studies in software engineering, knowing the skill level of the participants is also important for correct interpretation of results. The current ...

Bilexical dependencies capturing asymmetrical lexical relations between heads and dependents are viewed as a practical representation of syntax that is well-suited for computation and intelligible for human readers. In the ...

Processor architectures have been evolving quickly since the introduction of the central processing unit. For a very long time, one of the important means of increasing per- formance was to increase the clock frequency. ...

Excessive and unpredictable end-to-end latency is a major problem for today’s Internet performance, affecting a range of applications from real-time multimedia to web traffic. This is mainly attributed to the interaction ...