• Record linkage of Norwegian historical census data using machine learning 

      Park, Narae (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-08-02)
      The Historical Population Register (HPR) is a project to build the longitudinal life history of individuals by integrating the historical records of the people in Norway since the 19th century. This study attempted to improve the linking rate between the 1875-1900 censuses in HPR, which is currently low, using machine learning approaches. To this end, I developed a machine learning model for linking ...
    • A Robot System for Personalized Language Education. Implementation and evaluation of a language education system built on a robot 

      Dündar, Yigit Can (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-29)
      As modern computer hardware becomes more affordable, the application areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) expand and become more feasible to implement efficiently. This aspect opens up opportunities where AI robots can be used to support and improve many areas of human lives. One such area is education, and this thesis project combines AI and education to evaluate whether the results from that union ...
    • ROPE: Reducing the Omni-kernel Power Expenses 

      Karlberg, Jan-Ove (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-15)
      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 ...
    • RS-Seismic Processing and Web-Visualization 

      Pedersen, Tom Arne (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-15)
      The University of Tromsø is conducting regular marine seismic acquisition cruises for scientific and educational purposes in the polar regions of the Norwegian Sea and beyond. Leading experts in the field currently employed by the Department of Geology at ui, have found the current seismic visualization tools lacking in several fields. The available seismic software provides a multitude of settings ...
    • Secure collection of physical activity data from study participants through mobile solutions 

      Fenes, Markus Madsen (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-06-30)
      Biometric and health related data collected through automated features in smartphones and wearables can provide researchers with valuable information about the population. This thesis explores the possibilities of extracting data from Apple and Samsung wearable devices like watches and smartphones where native built-in support for data extraction and third-party data storage is not available. Doing ...
    • Simplified Device-Transparent Personal Storage 

      Kittilsland, Andreas (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-15)
      The number of personal computers we use every day has increased significantly the last couple of years, where the common model is a setup where each device has its own storage with separate files and applications. This forces the user to think in a certain way about files and applications, where they are to a degree bound to a device unless the user specifically moves the files, or installs/uninstalls ...
    • Simulating the Arctic Tundra Battery performance at sub-zero temperatures 

      Heggeli, Erik (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)
      The Arctic Tundra is an extremely cold desert-like environment. It is the home to many different species of animals and plants. With the oncoming threat of climate change, this biome is at risk of losing its biodiversity. This disruption of the Arctic Tundra caused by climate change, is what researchers at COAT with the assistance of UiT’s DAO project is trying to monitor. To be able to achieve this ...
    • Skynet: A distributed, autonomous filesystem 

      Aas, Svein Ove (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05)
      Existing networked filesystems are usually either client/server - allowing storage only on one node - hard to use, or both. The advanced ones also like to use their own on-disk format, complicating migration both ways. Skynet attempts to remedy this. It is a distributed filesystem with master/slave redundancy that is easy to use, relatively safe for your data and can be easily converted to/from ...
    • Slicer 

      Knutsen, Øystein (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-09-15)
      Explorative data visualization is a widespread tool for gaining insights from datasets. Investigating data in linked visualizations lets users explore potential relationships in their data at will. Furthermore, this type of analysis does not require any technical knowledge, widening the userbase from developers to anyone. Implementing explorative data visualizations in web browsers makes data analysis ...
    • Sneak 

      Syversen, Torkel (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)
      Secure multiparty computation (SMC) is a technique that allows multiple parties to jointly compute a function while keeping their inputs private. This technique has gained significant attention due to its potential applications in various fields, including privacy-preserving healthcare, politics and finance. SMC involves a set of protocols that enable parties to achieve secure computation and ...
    • Sorterius: Game-inspired App for Encouraging Outdoor Physical Activity for People with Intellectual Disabilities 

      Stellander, Magnus (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-15)
      People with intellectual disabilities have difficulties in reaching the World Health Organization's (WHO) suggested level of physical activity. Previous research shows that participating in physical activities often is related to self-efficacy in a physical activity setting and personal motivation. As physical activity has significant effects on physical and mental health, this thesis aimed to develop ...
    • Space-Bounded Async Scheduling. A UPCxx extension 

      Verma, Nishant (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-15)
      It is estimated that computers and mobile devices use more than 2% of the total energy consumed. That means a lot of energy is going in powering our cpu,display and gpu. In this paper we are trying to optimize the power consumed by cpu in partitioned global address space environment. Recent research suggests that there is scope in improving cpu power usage by having a better scheduler. Simhadri ...
    • StudentLink. A generic calendar platform 

      Andreassen, Ruben Alexander (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-14)
      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 ...
    • Super sensor network 

      Fjukstad, Bård (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-05-15)
      This dissertation studies composing a super sensor network from the combination of three functional sensor networks; A Sensor data producing network, a sensor data computing network and a sensor controlling network. The target devices are today labeled as large sensor nodes. The communication are based on an IP network using HTTP as the main protocol. Bonjour is used for service discovery, with ...
    • Swirlwave. Cloudless wide area friend-to-friend networking middleware for smartphones 

      Arnes, Jo Inge (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-07)
      Swirlwave is a middleware that enables peer-to-peer and distributed computing for Internet-connected devices with the following characteristics: The devices lack publicly reachable IP addresses, they can be expected to disconnect from the network for periods of time, and they frequently change network locations. This is the typical case for smartphones. The middleware fits into the friend-to-friend ...
    • SymboL. Et symbolspråk for Symbo 

      Nilssen, Kai-Even (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-05)
      I dag er elektronisk post en naturlig måte å kommunisere på. Dessverre er det enkelte brukergrupper som ikke kan utnytte denne teknologien. Vårt fokus er barn i alderen 4-8 år. Symbo prosjektet tar sikte på å gi disse brukerne muligheten til nettopp dette. Målet med dette prosjektet er å lage et symbolbasert språk kalt SymboL. Dette er en samling symboler som gjennom bruk gir et begrenset ...
    • Trading network performance for cash in the bitcoin blockchain 

      Tedeschi, Enrico (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-11-15)
      This thesis describes a longitudinal study of Bitcoin, the perhaps most popular blockchain based system today. Public blockchains have emerged as a plausible messaging substrate for applications that require highly reliable communication. However, sending messages over existing blockchains can be cumbersome and costly as miners require payment to establish consensus on the sequence of messages, ...
    • Tram-tastic Cloud Computing 

      Baig, Mirza Aneeq Hassan (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)
      This master’s thesis evaluates the scalability and cost-effectiveness of the AWS cloud platform used to collect and utilize data generated by the 87 digitally equipped trams. The SL-18 Cloud Platform was developed before the trams arrived, and resource configuration estimates were made to handle the data generated by the trams. However, with a few trams currently operational, it is crucial to evaluate ...
    • Triggering the next nudge 

      Ottestad, Thomas Forsgren (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-08-26)
      The aim of this thesis is to establish if a smart nudging system using triggers could be used to better understand the user and their situation as well as aiding in selecting a target activity as part of a complete smart nudging system. Explore how such a system can be used to determine when a user should be nudged and how it can learn from feedback from the user to make changes to itself and ...
    • User profiling for diverse user contexts 

      Karlsen, Jan Tore (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-14)
      The amount of content available for consumption online is increasing tremendously. This make the job of recommender systems more important, and at the same time, more demanding. Context-aware recommender systems might be a solution to this problem. This work set out to discover user contexts dynamically by collecting contextual information from user actions and perform cluster analysis on the ...