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Service Brokering in Cloud Computing
(Master thesis, 2014)AbstractWith the expanding cloud computing market new business models take form, and the focus in the market is on differentiation and adapting to the escalating demands of the customers. To satisfy the business segment ... -
Service Deployment in Heterogeneous Cloud-like Environments
(Master thesis, 2011)The amount of power consumed by data centres world wide is increasing, and due to growing electricity bills, service providers aim more attention on energy-efficient management of their data centres. In order to achieve ... -
Servitization in Norwegian Manufacturing
(Master thesis, 2011)Norwegian manufacturers are experiencing increasing competition from manufactures based in developing countries with substantially lower production costs. This increased competition forces manufacturers to differentiate ... -
Setting strategic objectives for the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovations: An exploratory decision analysis process
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was established in 2016 in response to the West African Ebola epidemic. The vision for CEPI is to develop vaccines to prevent future emerging infectious disease ... -
SHA-plan - Sikkerhetsutfordringer, utvikling & anvendelse
(Master thesis, 2015)Bygg- og anleggsbransjen i Norge er blant de mest risikoutsatte bransjene til tross for innføring av ulike risikoreduserende tiltak. Kostnadspress, økt bruk av utenlandsk arbeidskraft i kombinasjon med et økt målstyrt ... -
Shadowing managers engaged in care: Discovering the emotional nature of managerial work
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2009:147, Doctoral thesis, 2009)Within the Managerial Work and Behaviour tradition, researchers have for nearly 60 years studied what managers do in their everyday work. However, these studies have to a little extent acknowledged the emotional nature of ... -
Shared cognition in intercultural teams: collaborating without understanding each other
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose Severe misunderstandings have been proved to cause significant delays and financial overruns in large engineering projects with teams consisting of people from Western and Asian cultures. The purpose of this study ... -
Shared Value Creation in an Industry Context - Assessing How Governmental Policies Can Contribute to Increased Corporate Sustainability in the Norwegian Aquaculture Industry
(Master thesis, 2016)We argue in this thesis that the concept of shared value creation introduced by Porter and Kramer (2011) contain weaknesses when it comes to providing guidance for how industries can achieve shared value creation. An ... -
Sharing incident experiences: a roadmap towards collective safety information in the Norwegian construction industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article presents a study on sharing practices after incidents across organizations in the Norwegian construction industry as a means towards improvement of occupational safety. Interviews were performed with safety ... -
Shifting conceptualization of control in agile transformations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Agile transformation implies that organizations apply agile methods also outside of software development units. One particular way of doing such transformations is to create cross-functional software development units. ... -
Shifting from Black to Green: A Study of Diversification in Norwegian Oil and Gas Companies
(Master thesis, 2015)As Norwegian oil and gas companies increasingly struggle with international competition, and with an environmental crisis looming overhead, now may be the time for oil and gas companies to shift from black to green by ... -
Ship routing and scheduling with speed optimization and voyage separation requirements
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:43, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis This PhD thesis discusses how operations research (OR) can be used to help ship operators with finding good solution for their tactical planning problems. The research has been a part of the larger ... -
Ship Traffic Scheduling and Disruption Management for the Kiel Canal - A Simulation-Optimization Approach
(Master thesis, 2018)The Kiel Canal is a nearly 100 km long artificial waterway that connects the North Sea and the Baltic Sea through the north of Germany. The canal alternates between wide and narrow segments, and on the narrow segments the ... -
ShipSoft - Eco-efficiency tool for the Norwegian Maritime Industry
(Master thesis, 2013)The main target of the thesis is to contribute to the development of the software project ShipSoft and to reach to conclusions about integrating project management practices into ShipSoft. ShipSoft is an eco-efficiency ... -
Short term exposure to low amounts of airway irritants in a swine confinement building and inflammatory markers in blood and exhaled air
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Introduction and objective. Swine confinement buildings are known to contain large concentrations of airway irritants, and a number of studies have shown acute inflammatory effects in previously unexposed subjects when ... -
Short term measurements of indoor air quality when using the home office in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In 2020, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 many workers have been sent home to avoid the sickness spread. As a result, rooms that otherwise had domestic use, living rooms or bedrooms, have become offices. This change has ... -
Short-term exposure to stone minerals used in asphalt affect lung function and promote pulmonary inflammation among healthy adults
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective Stone minerals are a partially ignored environmental challenge but a significant contributor to urban air pollution. We examined if short-term exposure to two stone minerals – quartz diorite and rhomb porphyry – ... -
Short-term hydropower optimization in the day-ahead market using a nonlinear stochastic programming model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Hydropower producers participate in electricity markets by providing bids in market auctions, typically day-ahead. Making good bids that obey all market rules and consider uncertain prices for large, interconnected hydropower ... -
Short-term uncertainty in the dispatch of energy resources for VPP: A novel rolling horizon model based on stochastic programming
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The intermittent nature of distributed energy resources introduces new degrees of uncertainty in the operation of energy systems; hence, short-term decisions can no longer be considered fully deterministic. In this article, ... -
Shortening the execution time in projects: a state-of-the-art survey
(Master thesis, 2014)In the construction world, today s intense market dynamics force project owners to require faster construction times, without compromising the quality or increasing the costs. This situation has created a need for replacing ...