More and more scientific equipment are being placed outside to monitor the environment. Such observation units can benefit from increased autonomy to function during harsh conditions and network partitioning. Environmental conditions like low temperatures can damage equipment. Therefor it is important for equipment to be able to autonomously launch countermeasures. This thesis describes an autonomous ...

Collaborative filtering recommender systems have become essential to many Internet services, providing, for instance, book recommendations at Amazon's online e-commerce service, music recommendation in Spotify and movie recommendation in Netflix. Matrix factorization and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are two popular methods for implementing recommender systems, both providing superior ...

The Arctic Tundra in the far northern hemisphere is one of ecosystems that are most affected by the climate changes in the world today. Five Fram Center institutions developed a long-term research project called Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT). Their goal is to create robust observation systems which enable documentation and understanding of climate change impacts on the ...

The Norwegian fishing industry faces a significant issue of fishery crimes, with product traceability systems presenting a potential solution to counter these illegal activities. Current supply chain management in the seafood industry is vulnerable to information alterations, thereby complicating product traceability. Blockchain technology, with its unique properties, offers an interesting approach ...

Hospital's communication infrastructure suffers from different types of common problems. Currently, this infrastructure relies mainly on the use of pagers which are devices particularly interruptive for the daily work of hospital's workers, and moreover they do not support context-awareness communication. Wireless phones are supposed to be a valid alternative to pagers and they can also be used to ...

Today, with the prevalence of many- and multi-core systems has it been sparked a new interest for programming models that permits developer to exploit their resources. This has sparked renewed interest in creating larger event-based systems, systems where stack ripping occurs and with an obfuscated control flow. Both increases the complexity of debugging errors. During the development of the ...

This paper describes a data warehouse approach to environmentally friendly transportation nudging. Transportation makes up a significant part of global carbon emissions. These emissions impacts both the climate and the health of individuals. As such, efforts should be done to address transportation patterns and habits. In addition to the reduction of air pollution, making people more active ...

There are currently over 27 000 registered soccer teams in Norway. However, even with mandatory coaching licenses, there are still a vast variety of approaches to how training sessions should be planned and executed. Even in top-level professional soccer organizations, the planning of exercises involves a considerable amount of manual labor. The most common approaches include using old-fashioned pen ...

Elite football today is infused with technologies for collecting data on players' performance and health. Technologies such as wearable health and fitness trackers, full-body medical scans, and positional systems mounted around a stadium give coaches a wide range of accurate data about their players. However, coaches do not have the time or ability to analyze all this data for each player to give ...

In biology the introduction next generation technology is increasing the amount of data generated rapidly. New sequencing machines are able to produce terabytes of genomic data in days and in later years the cost of storing data has become higher than to produce it. With enormous amounts of data arrives great opportunities, but also new challenges; how should biologists analyze and interpret the ...