• Towards a Hybrid Cloud Platform Using Apache Mesos 

      Xue, Noha; Haugerud, Hårek; Yazidi, Anis (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 10356, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06)
      Hybrid cloud technology is becoming increasingly popular as it merges private and public clouds to bring the best of two worlds together. However, due to the heterogeneous cloud installation, facilitating a hybrid cloud ...
    • Towards a Plant Bio-Machine 

      Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian; Tufte, Gunnar; Beloff, Laura (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Plants are very efficient computing machines. They are able to sense diverse environmental conditions and quickly react through chemical and electrical signaling. In this paper, we present an interface between plants and ...
    • Towards a Standardized Identity Federation for Internet of Things in 5G Networks 

      Santos, Bernardo; Do, Van Thuan; Feng, Boning; Do, van Thanh (2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI);, Conference object, 2018-12-06)
      With the upcoming introduction of 5G networks for our daily usage and convenience and with the purpose of accommodating a countless amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications alongside the billion devices ...
    • Towards a Visualisation Ontology for Data Analysis in Industrial Applications 

      Zheng, Zhuoxun; Zhou, Baifan; Soylu, Ahmet; Kharlamov, Evgeny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Towards accessible representations of time: learning from the preferences of children and adults 

      Ali, Hamza; Singh, Gursharn; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Conference object, 2019)
      Representations of time are used in many contexts, yet the decoding of time can be challenging for users with various cognitive profiles. The digital representation of time is perhaps the most common. This study performed ...
    • Towards Accessible Self-service Kiosks through Intelligent User Interfaces 

      Hagen, Simen; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Personal and Ubiquitous Computing;14 (8), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-02-26)
      Public self-service kiosks provide key services such as ticket sales, airport check-in and general information. Such kiosks must be universally designed to be used by society at large, irrespective of the individual ...
    • Towards achieving a secure authentication mechanism for IoT devices in 5G networks 

      Santos, Bernardo; Dzogovic, Bruno; Feng, Boning; Do, Thuan Van; Jacot, Niels; Do, van Thanh (Chapter, 2019)
      Upon the new paradigm of Cellular Internet of Things, through the usage of technologies such as Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), a massive amount of IoT devices will be able to use the mobile network infrastructure to perform their ...
    • Towards AI-powered Cybersecurity Attack Modeling with Simulation Tools: Review of Attack Simulators 

      Alzarqawee, Aws Naser Jaber; Fritsch, Lothar (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems;Volume 571, Conference object, 2023-10-18)
      Cybersecurity currently focuses primarily on defenses that detect and prevent cyber-attacks. However, it is more important to regularly verify an organization’s security posture to reinforce its cybersecurity defenses as ...
    • Towards an Indoor Navigation Application for Emergency Evacuations and Persons with Visual Impairments – Experiences from First Responders and End Users 

      Giannoumis, George Anthony; Gjøsæter, Terje; Paupini, Cristina (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology;Volume 575, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-04)
      As natural and human disaster are increasingly affecting people’s lives around the globe in a growing and variegated way, the need to be prepared for a variety of conditions is imperative. Notwithstanding the relevance of ...
    • Towards calibration-free geo-localization of stationary outdoor webcams 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Norsk Informatikkonferanse; 2010, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      This study proposes two strategies for determining the approximate geographical location of outdoor webcams based on time-series comprising regularly sampled images. The strategies require an accurate account of universal ...
    • Towards Cloud Storage Tier Optimization with Rule-Based Classification 

      Khan, Akif Quddus; Nikolov, Nikolay Vladimirov; Matskin, Mihhail; Prodan, Radu; Bussler, Christoph; Roman, Dumitru; Soylu, Ahmet (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2023)
      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 ...
    • Towards harmonious East-West educational partnerships: a study of cultural differences between Taiwanese and Norwegian engineering students 

      Jian, Hua-Li; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Huang, Yo-Ping; Huang, Yueh-Min; Hagen, Simen (Asia Pacific Education Review;11 (4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-07)
      The collaboration activities between educational institutions in the East and the West are on the increase as an increasingly globalized economy requires graduates to have the skills to work across cultural divides. Such ...
    • Towards Independent Navigation with Visual Impairment: A Prototype of a Deep Learning and Smartphone-based Assistant 

      Kuriakose, Bineeth; Shrestha, Raju; Sandnes, Frode Eika (PETRA: Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments; PETRA 2021: The 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference, Conference object, 2021-06-29)
      People with visual impairments may find it hard to navigate in unfamiliar spaces. Even though several systems have been proposed to make navigation easier, such systems often ignore two essential factors for anyone using ...
    • Towards Making a Cyborg: A Closed-Loop Reservoir-Neuro System 

      Aaser, Peter; Knudsen, Martinius; Huse Ramstad, Ola; van de Wijdeven, Rosanne; Nichele, Stefano; Sandvig, Ioanna; Tufte, Gunnar; Bauer, Ulrich Stefan; Halaas, Øyvind; Hendseth, Sverre; Sandvig, Axel; Valderhaug, Vibeke Devold (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The human brain is a remarkable computing machine, i.e. vastly parallel, self-organizing, robust, and energy efficient. To gain a better understanding into how the brain works, a cyborg (cybernetic organism, a combination ...
    • Towards More Efficient Screen Reader Web Access with Automatic Summary Generation and Text Tagging 

      Sarwar, Usama; Eika, Evelyn (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 12376, Conference object, 2020-09-04)
      Readers with 20/20 vision can easily read text and quickly perceive information to get an overview of the information within a text. This is more challenging for readers who rely on screen readers. This study investigated ...
    • Towards robustness of keyboard-entered authentication factors with thermal wiping against thermographic attacks 

      Fritsch, Lothar; Mecaliff, Marie; Opdal, Kathinka W.; Rundgreen, Mathias; Sachse, Toril S. (Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings;Volume P-325, Conference object, 2022)
      Many authentication methods use keyboard entry for one of their authentication factors. Keyboards factors have been compromised exploiting physical fingerprints, substances from fingers visible on keys, with acoustic ...
    • Towards Safe Encounters between Pedestrians and Autonomous Driverless Vehicles: Comparing Adults and Children's Perceptions of External Human Machine Interface Design Features 

      Hameed, Mohammad Awais; Chaudhry, Fuwad; Sabiha, Fatema Tuz; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Conference object, 2023)
      Recent developments in autonomous vehicle technologies have raised questions about how to achieve efficient communication between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles. External Human Machine Interfaces (eHMI) have been ...
    • Towards Situational Disability-aware Universally Designed Information Support Systems for Enhanced Situational Awareness 

      Gjøsæter, Terje; Radianti, Jaziar; Chen, Weiqin (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management;ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Conference object, 2021)
      This paper takes on the challenge of designing situational awareness information systems that take into account not only the prevalence of so-called demons of situational awareness, but also situational disabilities that ...
    • Towards the InfiniBand SR-IOV vSwitch Architecture 

      Tasoulas, Evangelos; Gran, Ernst Gunnar; Johnsen, Bjørn Arne; Begnum, Kyrre; Skeie, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      To meet the demands of the Exascale era and facilitate Big Data analytics in the cloud while maintaining flexibility, cloud providers will have to offer efficient virtualized High Performance Computing clusters in a ...
    • Towards universal accessibility on the web: Do grammar checking tools improve text 

      Kaushik, Hitesh Mohan; Eika, Evelyn; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS);Volume 12188, Conference object, 2020-07-10)
      Readable text is a key ingredient in a universally accessible web. WCAG2.1 recommends that text should be readable by someone with basic schooling, a criterion that is hard to quantify and implement. Writers rely on ...