Caching services are vital for the performance of large-scale web services running in the cloud. However, placing sensitive data in caching services, implicitly includes all components of the cloud infrastructure that can be exploited. Therefore, end-users place their trust in the entire security stack of their service providers. In order to achieve confidentiality and integrity of sensitive ...

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 ...

In recent years, technology has had a vast impact on the sports industry, particularly in soccer. Elite soccer teams utilize digital information systems to quantify performance metrics, in order to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Applied methods mostly rely on post-game analytics, allowing coaches to review games in retrospect and implement corrections to their team thereafter. However, this ...

META-pipe is a metagenomic analysis service provided in the ELIXIR distributed life science infrastructure. It provides assembly of sequence data, functional annotation, and taxonomic profiling. The analysis is computationally intensive and it consist of many jobs which have different requirements and varying complexity and execution times It therefore requires an execution environment that can ...

Due to the large increase of image data in animal surveillance, an effective and efficient way of labeling said data is required. Over the past few years the Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT) project have deployed dozens of cameras in eastern Finnmark, Norway during winter, which have resulted in a large volume of wildlife images which is used to document the effects of climate ...

Lungs sounds has been used as a diagnostic tool for centuries. The usefulness of listening to lung sounds, or pulmonary auscultation, as a definite diagnostic method has been diminished by advances in medical imaging such as chest X-Ray, but these advanced methods also bring a higher monetary and time cost. In addition, when the severity of pulmonary conditions changes, audible symptoms change ...

Digital games do not only serve entertainment purposes, but can also benefit as useful tools for learning. Games that have an explicit and carefully thought-out educational intention has appeared as very productive within health care, and have been used more frequently as part of treatment among children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Insulin-depended diabetes has no known cure at the present time, ...

Today, computers commonly have graphics hardware with a processing power far exceeding that of the main processors in the same machines. Modern graphics hardware consists of highly data-parallel processors, which are user programmable. However, software development utilizing these processors directly is reserved for platforms that require a fair bit of intimate knowledge about the underlying hardware ...

File synchronization- and hosting services is not only an integrated service in everyday life, but also a powerful tool to support business and organizational activities. In order to provide users with a transparent experience, the systems relies on sophisticated mechanisms to create a seamless integration. The problem with these systems is that they are designed for stable network connections with ...

In light of recent years’ exploding data generation in life sciences, increasing downstream analysis capabilities is paramount to address the asymmetry of innovation in data creation contra processing capacities. Many contemporaneously used tools are sequential programs, ofttimes including convoluted dependencies leading to workflows crashing due to misconfiguration, detrimental to both development ...