• 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 ...
    • Towards “Image Reflow” on the Web: Avoiding Excessive Panning of Magnified Images by Multiplexing Automatically Cropped Regions of Interest 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2023)
      Low vision users are often faced with large images when increasing the browser zoom level. Large images extending beyond the viewport are difficult to view due to the excessive two-dimensional panning involved. This demo ...
    • Tracing Network Evolution Using The PARAFAC2 Model 

      Roald, Marie; Bhinge, Suchita; Jia, Chunying; Calhoun, Vince; Adalı, Tülay; Acar, Evrim (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing;ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04-09)
      Characterizing time-evolving networks is a challenging task, but it is crucial for understanding the dynamic behavior of complex systems such as the brain. For instance, how spatial networks of functional connectivity in ...
    • Tracking of Multiple Quantiles in Dynamically Varying Data Streams 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Yazidi, Anis; Rue, Håvard (Pattern Analysis and Applications;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-16)
      In this paper we consider the problem of tracking multiple quantiles of dynamicallyvarying data stream distributions. The method is based on making incremental updates ofthe quantile estimates every time ...
    • A transformer-based deep learning model for evaluation of accessibility of image descriptions 

      Shrestha, Raju (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2022)
      Images have become an integral part of digital and online media and they are used for creative expression and dissemination of knowledge. To address image accessibility challenges to the visually impaired community, adequate ...
    • Transforming Lindblad Equations Into Systems of Real-Valued Linear Equations: Performance Optimization and Parallelization of an Algorithm 

      Meyerov, I; Kozinov, E; Liniov, A; Volokitin, V; Yusipov, Igor; Ivanchenko, Mikhail; Denysov, Sergiy (Entropy;Volume 22, Issue 10, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-06)
      With their constantly increasing peak performance and memory capacity, modern supercomputers offer new perspectives on numerical studies of open many-body quantum systems. These systems are often modeled by using Markovian ...
    • Transition from endemic behavior to eradication of malaria due to combined drug therapies: an agent-model approach 

      Sequeira, Joao; Louca, Jorge; Mendes, Antonio; Lind, Pedro (Journal of Theoretical Biology;Volume 484, 7 January 2020, 110030, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-26)
      We introduce an agent-based model describing a susceptible-infectious-susceptible (SIS) system of humans and mosquitoes to predict malaria epidemiological scenarios in realistic biological conditions. Emphasis is given to ...
    • Translating Emotions from EEG to Visual Arts 

      Riccio, Piera; Galati, Francesco; Zuluaga, Maria; De Martin, Juan Carlos; Nichele, Stefano (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2022)
      Exploring the potentialities of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of arts is fundamental to understand and define how this technology is shaping our creativity. We propose a system that generates emotionally ...
    • Translating the viewing position in single equirectangular panoramic images 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Huang, Yo-Ping (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2016)
      Equirectangular panoramas are popular tools for achieving 360 degree immersed viewing experiences. A panorama captures a scene from one point and panoramic viewers allow the user to control the viewing direction, but the ...
    • Transnational convergence of public procurement policy: a bottom-up analysis of policy networks and the international harmonisation of accessibility standards for information and communication technology 

      Giannoumis, G. Anthony (International Review of Law, Computers & Technology;29(2-3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-16)
      This article seeks to examine how public procurement policies for information and communication technology (ICT), aimed at improving the accessibility of ICT for persons with disabilities, have converged internationally. ...
    • TRANSQLATION: TRANsformer-based SQL RecommendATION 

      Tahmasebi, Shirin; Payberah, Amir H.; Soylu, Ahmet; Roman, Dumitru; Matskin, Mihhail (IEEE International Conference on Big Data;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object, 2023)
      The exponential growth of data production emphasizes the importance of database management systems (DBMS) for managing vast amounts of data. However, the complexity of writing Structured Query Language (SQL) queries requires ...