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Distributed Agent-Based Web Service Selection, Composition and Analysis through Partial Deduction
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2006:21, Doctoral thesis, 2006)In order to facilitate agile business and support online partnership formation, many modern information systems are designed to support interoperability. This tendency has become mainstream with advancements in distributed ... -
Distributional Semantic Models for Clinical Text Applied to Health Record Summarization
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2016:134, Doctoral thesis, 2016)As information systems in the health sector are becoming increasingly computerized, large amounts of care-related information are being stored electronically. In hospitals clinicians continuously document treatment and ... -
Dynamically Controlled DNA Tiles: Looking Beyond the Self-assembly of Static Two-dimensional DNA-based Computational Structures
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:58, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Algorithmic self-assembly of DNA tiles enables computation and construction of DNA structures at the nanoscale, where the assembly process is guided by specific DNA interactions between complementary sticky-ends of tiles. ... -
Efficient Commit Processing in High- Availability Main-Memory Databases
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Efficient Processing of Preference Queries in Distributed and Spatial Databases
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:3, Doctoral thesis, 2012)Traditional SQL queries are recognized for producing an exact and complete result set. However, for an increasing number of applications that manage massive amounts of data, the large result set produced by traditional SQL ... -
Efficient Query Processing in Distributed Search Engines
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:22, Doctoral thesis, 2013)Web search engines have to deal with a rapidly increasing amount of information, high query loads and tight performance constraints. The success of a search engine depends on the speed with which it answers queries ... -
Electronic collaboration across organizational borders in the health care sector: Design and deployment from a national perspective
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2012:252, Doctoral thesis, 2012)The purpose of this thesis is to make a contribution to the improvement of electronic collaboration across organizational borders in the health care sector. I have studied this problem from a sociotechnical1 point of view ... -
Enabling data-driven decision support in healthcare
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:448, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Healthcare professionals make decisions every day. These decisions can have a profound impact on those they concern, such as a decision on how to treat a patient. Patients and their families can experience prolonged illness ... -
Enabling software process improvement : an investigation of the importance of organizational issues
(Dr. ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2001:101, Doctoral thesis, 2001)Software development and maintenance involves oraganizational as well as technical issues. While software engineering has been offtered as a way of resolving the intrinsic technical problems, the organizational problems ... -
Energy Efficient Computing on Multi-core Processors: Vectorization and Compression Techniques
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:143, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Over the past few years, energy consumption has become the main limiting factor for computing in general. This has led CPU vendors to aggressively promote parallel computing using multiple cores without significantly ... -
Engineering Efficient Similarity Search Methods
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:84, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Similarity search has become one of the important parts of many applications including multimedia retrieval, pattern recognition and machine learning. In this problem, the main task is to retrieve most similar (closest) ... -
Enhancing the Situation Awareness of Decision Makers by Applying Case-Based Reasoning on Streaming Data
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2014:315, Doctoral thesis, 2014)Data is generally expected to continue its exponential growth the next five to ten years. However, it is commonly agreed that the amount of data that currently exist is abundant and that there is still much to achieve ... -
ePortfolios in Higher Education: Enabling Students to Recognize Acquired Competencies - Research in Computing Education
(Doctoral thesis, 2024)Competence is an integral part of learning outcomes in Norwegian higher education. It is the ability to use knowledge and skills in the real world, such as in a professional context. However, students often struggle to ... -
Evaluating Artificial Neural Network Robustness for Safety-Critical Systems
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:364, Doctoral thesis, 2023)With the power to perform more complex tasks than humans, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied to execute tasks in safety-critical systems (SCSs), such as object detection, image recognition, and navigation. ... -
Event Detection in Changing and Evolving Environments
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:61, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The availability of modern technology and the recent proliferation of devices and sensors have resulted in a tremendous amount of data being generated, stored and handled in various applications that affect almost all ... -
Evolvability, Complexity and Scalability of Cellular Evolutionary and Developmental Systems
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:31, Doctoral thesis, 2015)Man-made systems, such as supercomputers and software, IT-infrastructures and networks of any kind, are continuously growing in size and complexity. As conventional top-down engineering techniques may have reached the ... -
Evolving Static Hardware Redundancy for Defect Tolerant FPGAs
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:48, Doctoral thesis, 2008)Integrated circuits have been in constant progression since the first prototype in 1958. The semiconductor industry has maintained a constant rate of miniaturisation of transistors and wires, resulting in ever increasing ... -
Exploiting Latent Context for Effective Social Recommendation
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:250, Doctoral thesis, 2020)With the rapid proliferation of online social networks, the information overload problem becomes increasingly severe, and recommender systems play a critical role in helping online users discover useful information matching ... -
Exploring end-user participation in the design of digital public services: an empirical study of discourse and practice
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:89, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The public sector is intensifying the employment of digital solutions in providing public services based on promises of efficiency and improving citizens' experiences. This thesis explores how the participation of end-users ... -
Exploring Multifaced User Modelling in Textual Data Streams
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:380, Doctoral thesis, 2021)User modelling technologies play an important role in the success of many online applications such as recommender systems. However, it is far from enough to solve the cold-start issue and data sparsity problem commonly ...