Robotics can be utilized more in emergency services, and a software platform for controlling many semi-autonomous can make it more alluring to use robots in this area. Using semi-autonomous robots can allow personnel to issue robots to perform complex task, without the need of extensive training, and it allows one person to control many robots alone. One challenging aspect of using robots in emergency ...

Even with today's technologies many tasks relies on humans to be completed correctly. Engineers must monitor steps in large chains of operations, and verify the results before the next process is allowed to continue. In many such systems, a lot of useful data passes by without ever been stored for efficient future usage. Even though some operations must be verified by an experienced human eye, ...

Nowadays people have many different personal devices, like laptops and tablets, that they use to access and process data. Very often it is desirable to access and process the same data on different devices without having to copy it from one device to another. Commercial cloud services provide good services for achieving this, but recent events, such as the Snowdon disclosures, have illustrated some ...

Recent technological advances provide large amounts of data for epidemiological analyses that can provide novel insights in the dynamics of carcinogenesis. These analyses are often performed without prior hypothesis and therefore require an exploratory approach. Realizing exploratory analysis requires the development of new systems that provide interactive exploration and visualization of large-scale ...

Over the last decade, power consumption and energy efficiency have arisen as important performance metrics for data center computing systems hosting cloud services. The incentives for reducing power consumption are several, and often span economic, technological, and environmental dimensions. Because of the vast number of computers currently employed in data centers, the economy of scale dictates ...

Scientists and engineers require ever more powerful software and hardware to analyze data and build models. Unfortunately, current solutions to the problem are often hard to use for scientists that are not software engineers. And software engineers often do not have the mathematical background to understand the scientific problem to solve. This thesis describes MORTAL, a new general-purpose ...

Large organizations often use many software applications. In some cases, two or more of these applications contains information that is very similar or the same. In this thesis we are going to look at calendar information. UiT - The Arctic University of Norway is a large organization which uses many applications that contains calendar information. Fronter, Syllabus and Microsoft Exchange all covers ...

Today, virtual machines (VMs) are commonly employed to encapsulate and isolate workloads in the cloud, enabling efficient utilization of hardware resources through the use of statistical multiplexing. Still, there is a significant overhead associated with the use of VMs; each VM instance has to contain a complete OS environment to support the execution of applications that are dependent on the ...

As technology advances, researchers in the natural sciences collect ever-increasing amounts of data. While computer science research often focuses on effective ways to perform computations on large data sets, the visualization of large data sets can be just as important for achieving new insights. Just as cluster computing enables scalable computation on large data sets, so can cluster-based display ...

To understand the biological processes related to the development of cancer there is a need for interactive data visualization tools that integrates experimental data with biological knowledge. Existing visualization tools have shown their usefulness, but next-generation biological data analysis requires both integrating different data types and larger datasets. This requires data exploration tools ...