• Applications of Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Digital Rock Analysis 

      Sarmad, Muhammad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:114, Doctoral thesis, 2024)
      Digital rock analysis utilizes various tools available in computer science to represent and process rock data in a way that enhances our understanding of its geological properties. It has become an essential tool for ...
    • Applying Multi-Agent Software System to Support Citywide Mobile Learning 

      Khan, Basit Ahmed (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:296, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      Mobile Learning is an emerging mode of learning, in which a learner can use his/her mobile device to learn anywhere and any time. The immature and diverse field of Mobile Learning holds a blooming future and promises great ...
    • Artificial Development and Evolution using Common Developmental Genomes 

      Antonakopoulos, Konstantinos (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:251, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Developmental biology seeks to understand how organisms are constructed. Development is a set of very complex processes involving a coded program as the organisms’ genome. This genome describes how to build the organism, ...
    • Assessment and Design of Color Vision Deficiency Simulation and Daltonization Methods 

      Simon-Liedtke, Joschua Thomas (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:8, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Color vision in humans evolved because it improves behavioral responses related, for example, to the guidance of attention, object recognition and detection of emotional states. However, people with color vision deficiencies ...
    • Augmenting learning analytics with multimodal data to advance learning design: Research in computing education 

      Mangaroska, Katerina (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:28, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
      In the last ten years, higher education has witnessed a substantial increase in the number of learning technologies as a support to the more traditional classroom environments. Today’s technological advancements, from ...
    • Automated lazy metalearning in introspective reasoning systems 

      Houeland, Tor Gunnar Høst (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:193, Doctoral thesis, 2020)
      Machine learning systems are becoming increasingly widespread and important, and these days machine learning is used in some form in most industries. However, the application of machine learning technology still has a ...
    • Automatic Run-Time Communication and I/O Optimizations 

      Natvig, Thorvald (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2010:237, Doctoral thesis, 2010)
      As computing systems grow more complex, they also grow harder to use. On today’scommodity clusters, achieving some degree of speedup can often be easy, but achievingoptimal speedup is hard. Suboptimal use of shared resources ...
    • Automating Problem Analysis Using Knowledge Extracted from Text 

      Sizov, Gleb (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:94, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      In the knowledge economy, it is important to utilize existing knowledge effectively. Most of the knowledge people generate is captured in textual form, which makes the ability to read and apply the knowledge contained in ...
    • Bioinformatics methods for analysis of gene expression data 

      Jenssen, Tor-Kristian (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2002:63, Doctoral thesis, 2002)
      Recent technical advances in molecular biology have had a profound impact on biology and medicine. It is unlikely that this progress could have been made without the support of modern computers. For instance, the massive ...
    • Bottom Up and Top Down – Twig Pattern Matching on Indexed Trees 

      Grimsmo, Nils (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:96, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      This PhD thesis is a collection of papers presented with a general introduction to the topic, which is twig pattern matching (TPM) on indexed tree data. TPM is a pattern matching problem where occurrences of a query tree ...
    • Building World Event Representations From Linguistic Representations 

      Bruland, Tore (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:97, Doctoral thesis, 2013)
      The goal of the research presented here is to build a natural language processing system for our future natural language applications. We believe that real applications will move our research in Computational Linguistics ...
    • Capturing Signs and Events Related to Catheters in Clinical Text 

      Yan, Melissa Y. (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:410, Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      Annotated clinical corpora are necessary to extract information from clinical text for answering clinical questions. However, publicly available annotated clinical corpora are limited because of privacy issues, ethical ...
    • Case-Based Tutoring with Concept Maps 

      Sørmo, Frode (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:21, Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      The goal of this thesis is to investigate methods for computerized tutoring support that is adapted to the individual student. In particular, we are concerned with providing such assistance to students solving exercises ...
    • Characterising Integration in Practice: A Case Study of Collaborative Infrastructure Change in a Large Oil and Gas Company 

      Jarulaitis, Gasparas (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:44, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      This thesis investigates collaborative work practices in a large oil and gas company (OGC), with special attention being given to recent integration and standardisation efforts to the collaborative infrastructure for ...
    • Clinical Guideline Authoring Tools: Exploring Features and Requirements 

      Khodambashi, Soudabeh (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:344, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      The design, development, maintenance, and publication process of clinical guidelines is complex, time-consuming, and requires collaboration among different stakeholders. Complex guideline development, management and revision ...
    • Collaborative learning in software development: An investigation of characteristics, prerequisites and improvement 

      Fægri, Tor Erlend (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:42, Doctoral thesis, 2012)
      Collaborative learning integrates individual and collective learning with practical activity. The great demand for learning in software development practice makes collaborative learning attractive. However, social and ...
    • Collaborative Work on 3D Educational Content 

      Fominykh, Mikhail (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:88, Doctoral thesis, 2012)
      The use of three-dimensional Collaborative Virtual Environments (3D CVEs) for educational purposes has been constantly increasing during the recent years. One of the reasons is the potential of such environments and the ...
    • Column Stores versus Search Engines and Applications to Search in Social Networks 

      Bjørklund, Truls A. (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:148, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      Search engines and database systems both play important roles as we store and organize ever increasing amounts of information and still require the information to be easily accessible. Research on these two types of systems ...
    • Component-Based Software Engineering: Modern Trends, Evolution and Perceived Architectural Risks 

      Slyngstad, Odd Petter Nord (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:87, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      Motivation: Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is an approach to software reuse where software assets or artifacts from multiple sources are reused to develop systems faster and cheaper. The main benefit of software ...
    • Computational Risk Analysis for Digitizing Sustainable Urban Water Supply Systems 

      Wu, Di (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:13, Doctoral thesis, 2022)
      The movement of global urbanization is severely challenging many aspects of our modem lives, especially after the 1960s. To address these spawned problems, in 2015, the United Nations published a series of Sustainable ...