Master's theses in Information and Communication Technology: Recent submissions
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Performance evaluation of channel aggregation strategies in cognitive radio networks with queues
(Master thesis, 2012)With the growing usage of wireless communication devices, demand for the spectrum access is rapidly increasing. Therefore, an efficient spectrum management and spectrum access techniques are necessary and critical. However, ... -
Dynamic business process management
(Master thesis, 2012)Open e-PRIOR is an open source e-Procurement system developed by the European Commission. Currently Open e-PRIOR system is handling simple choreographies based on the exchange of a single main object. However, these different ... -
Iris : a solution for executing handwritten code
(Master thesis, 2012)This paper presents a novel approach to executing handwritten code, the solution coined Iris. My research falls within the field of mobile app development, handwriting recognition, optical and intelligent character recognition ... -
Short-term forecasting of electricity consumption using Gaussian processes
(Master thesis, 2012)Although state-of-the-art models like linear regression and neural networks have been widely used for electricity consumption forecasting, the demand for improved prediction accuracy is still very high. A small improvement ... -
Evaluation of standards in tele-home care solutions
(Master thesis, 2012)The number of elderly in the society is predicted to rise rapidly in the close future and reach a number of 33% of the available work force in 2050. The Norwegian government has presented a strategy for increased use of ... -
Online failure prediction in UNIX systems
(Master thesis, 2011)This thesis investigates the possibility of enhancing an existing performance monitoring system for UNIX servers, by adding the capability of predicting upcoming failures, using generic UNIX operating system performance ... -
Privacy-preserving document similarity detection
(Master thesis, 2011)The document similarity detection is an important technique used in many applications. The existence of the tool that guarantees the privacy protection of the documents during the comparison will expand the area where ... -
Electronic invoicing for small businesses
(Master thesis, 2011)The Norwegian government has released an act suggesting that all invoices sent to the public sector should be sent electronically by the year 2012. In addition more and more large companies demand their suppliers to send ... -
Solving the boolean satisfiability problem using multilevel techniques
(Master thesis, 2011)There are many complex problems in computer science that occur in knowledge-representation (artificial thinking), artificial learning, Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design, security protocols and other areas. These ... -
Determining geographic origin of social media users with Bayesian Analysis of common syntactical and spelling errors when using foreign languages
(Master thesis, 2011)As the growing influence and importance of social media, the need of categorizing authors of overt text information from social media by their geographic origin background is becoming more urgent than ever before. To achieve ... -
Anomaly detection in computer networks using hierarchically organized teams of learning automata
(Master thesis, 2011)With the increasing number of computer systems connected to the Internet, security becomes a critical issue. To combat this problem, several attack detection methods have emerged in the past years, such as the rule based ... -
Sikkerhetsanalyse i AMS (Avansert Måle- og Styringssystem)
(Master thesis, 2011)Automatisk Måle- og Styringssystem (AMS) skal innføres i alle norske bygg knyttet til strømnettet, innen 1. januar 2017. Dette er et system som i første omgang skal avlese elektrisk forbruk, styre strømtilførselen og gi ... -
Time estimation for large scale of data processing in Hadoop MapReduce scenario
(Master thesis, 2011)The appearance of MapReduce technology gave rise to a strong blast in IT industry. Large companies such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook are using this technology to facilitate their data processing[12]. As a representative ... -
Pattern recognition based prediction of the outcome of radiotherapy in cervical cancer treatment
(Master thesis, 2011)Cervical Cancer is one the most common cancers amongst women. Ev- ery year almost 300 Norwegian women are diagnosed with cervical cancer. It is the 5th most deadly cancer type amongst women in the world. Esti- mates ... -
Multi-protocol correlation : data record analyses and correlator design
(Master thesis, 2011)This thesis has two main goals. The first one is to design a user configurable multiprotocol correlator and implement a prototype of said design. The second goal is to identify and propose a method to match different ... -
Development of a MATLAB Toolbox for Mobile Radio Channel Simulators
(Master thesis, 2011)A profound knowledge of mobile radio channels is required for the development, evaluation, and also assessment at practical conditions of present and future mobile radio communication systems. The modelling, analysis, ... -
Model Calibration with Hierarchically Structured Bayesian Learning Automata
(Master thesis, 2011)When using a hydrological model to estimate the amount of available resources, the accuracy of the estimates depends on the calibration of the model. That is, one needs to nd appropriate values for the model parameters. ... -
Measuring influence by including Latent Semantic Analysis in Twitter conversations
(Master thesis, 2011)As the mount of information is growing in social media, online influence estimation is becoming significant and an time consuming element in social media analytic. In the last few years therefore there have been several ... -
Load-balancing by applying a bayesian learning automata (BLA) scheme in a non-stationary web-crawler network
(Master thesis, 2010)Distributed Web-Crawlers, i.e. , Web-Crawler Networks, have been known to retrieve massive amount of web-data to centralized search indexes the last decade. Companies like Google, Yahoo and lately Integrasco, have built ... -
Solving dynamic bandit problems and decentralized games using the kalman bayesian learning automaton
(Master thesis, 2010)Multi-armed bandit problems have been subject to a lot of research in computer science because it captures the fundamental dilemma of exploration versus exploitation in reinforcement learning. The goal of a bandit problem ...