Modelling knowledge for agents and virtual entities can be hard. Often the domain knowledge needed increases as the complexity of the agent increases. What is worse is that for increasingly complex agents the needed knowledge ...

In more or less any discussion, however consequential, it is left for the participants to work out in their own head whether the arguments necessitate the conclusions put forward, or are lacking or flawed. When the discussion ...

This thesis has investigated hearing consultations with the intention of informing design of technology that can support active patient involvement in such encounters and improve patient-practitioner collaboration. Patie ...

Riverscapes are under pressure from anthropogenic development, and this challengesthe conservation of biodiversity, hydromorphology and land types. To assess changesand restoration potential, an understanding of alteration ...

I løpet av de siste tiårene har ondsinnede dataangrep blitt en betydelig bekymring i programvareindustrien. Bransjen sliter med å lage sikker programvare grunnet mangel på sikkerhetseksperter og utviklere som oppfatter ...

The term Fake News, although not a new phenomenon, became well known with the U.S. presidential election in 2016. It has become relevant with the prevalence of social media, and the increased use of the internet as a news ...

Utviklingen av additiv produksjon har ført til økt kompleksitet på grunn av et større utvalg av materialer og utvidede frihetsgrader i systemene. Dette har økt interessen når det gjelder å løse noen av de industrielle ...

The growth of biometrics-based authentication in various services raises the need to protect biometric data at the storage level. Specifically, biometric templates need to be protected after features are extracted to avoid ...

Cloud storage adoption has increased over the years as more and more data has been produced with particularly high demand for fast processing and low latency. To meet the users’ demands and to provide a cost-effective ...

IoT applications with their resource-constrained sensor devices can benefit from adjusting their operations to the phenomena they sense and the environments they operate in, leading to the paradigm of self-adaptive, ...