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 ...

Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO) aims to automate, streamline and improve the collection, storage and analysis of images, video and weather measurements taken on the arctic tundra. Automating the process means that there are no human users that needs to be involved in the process. This leads to a loss of monitoring capabilities of the process. There are insufficient tools that allow the human ...

Research in community health introduces challenges regarding analysis of the research data. It involves multiple actors in a varity of arenas, and it is often directed towards the local community and children and their families. The legal, ethical and privacy issues involved introduce constraints upon the analysis performed. SNOOP combined with the D2Worm declarative modelling and infrastructure ...

Distributed applications that span mobile devices, computing clusters, and cloud services, require robust and flexible mechanisms for dynamically loading code. This paper describes lady: a system that augments the .net platform with a highly reliable mechanism for resolving and loading assemblies, and arranges for safe execution of partially trusted code. Key benefits of lady are the low latency and ...

Åpne API blir stadig mer utbredt som fører til at utviklere kan benytte mye tid i å lese dokumentasjon for å finne et passende alternativ. Tesen beskriver en design som kan benyttes for å danne et sett med hjelpemidler som har til hensikt å redusere unødvendige alternativ av API for brukeren. Dette gjøres via en web crawler som går gjennom API dokumentasjon samt en behandler av datamengdene som ...

Background: Telemedicine services have been successfully used in areas where there are adequate infrastructures such as reliable power and communication lines. However, despite the increasing number of merchants and seafarers, maritime and Arctic telemedicine have had limited success. This might be linked with various factors such as lack of good infrastructure, lack of trained onboard personnel, ...

A more efficient and effective approach for detecting animal species in digital images is required. Every winter, the Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT) project deploys several dozen camera traps in eastern Finnmark, Norway. These cameras capture large volumes of images that are used to study and document the impact of climate changes on animal populations. Currently, the images ...

It is still strangely difficult to backup and synchronize data. Cloud computing solves the problem by centralizing everything and letting someone else handle the backups. But what about situations with low connectivity or sensitive data? For this, software developers have an interesting distributed, decentralized, and partition-tolerant data storage system right at their fingertips: distributed ...

This paper presents a prototype of a system for automated observations of flora and fauna in the Arctic. Currently applied methods of observation depend mostly on systems (usually consisting of a camera unit, a motion detection sensor and a memory card) that are left unattended in remote locations during extended periods of data gathering. The main problem with such approach is that no remote control ...