• Digitalization-effects on the legal industry: Emerging business models 

      Breunig, Karl Joachim; Skjølsvik, Tale (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose – This empirical paper addresses the effect of digitalization on professional service firms (PSFs). In particular, we apply business model frameworks to identify important dimensions of recent disruption within ...
    • Digitalized story making in the classroom : a social semiotic perspective on gender, multimodality and learning 

      Skaar, Håvard (Seminar.net : Media, technology and lifelong learning;3 (1), Academic article, 2007)
      The article takes the case of pupils in a fifth-year primary school class (10-11 years old) who use text and pictures in their creative writing on the classroom computers. The study confirms what the research ...
    • The Dirac operator on compact quantum groups 

      Neshveyev, Sergey; Tuset, Lars (Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik;2010 (641), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01-20)
      For the q-deformation Gq, 0 < q < 1, of any simply connected simple compact Lie group G we construct an equivariant spectral triple which is an isospectral deformation of that defined by the Dirac operator D on G. Our ...
    • Disaster Risk Reduction for All? Understanding Intersectionality in Disaster Situations 

      Paupini, Cristina; Gjøsæter, Terje (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology;Volume 622, Conference object, 2021-07-31)
      When designing digital services for citizens in a disaster situation, the diversity of its audience and their particular needs are not always sufficiently taken into account. Variables like digital equipment available, ...
    • Discovering Fuzzy Association Rules from Patient's Daily Text Messages to Diagnose Melancholia 

      Huang, Yo-Ping; Chiu, Hong-Wen; Chuan, Wei-Po; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      With the constant stress from work load and daily life people may show symptoms of melancholia. However, most people are reluctant to describe it or may not know that they already have it. In this paper a novel system ...
    • The discovery of the expansion of the universe 

      Grøn, Øyvind (Galaxies;Volume 6, Issue 4, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-03)
      Alexander Friedmann, Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, Vesto Slipher, Knut E. Lundmark, Willem de Sitter, Georges H. Lemaître, and Edwin Hubble all contributed to the discovery of the expansion of the universe. If only two persons are ...
    • Disentangling stochastic signals superposed with periodic oscillations 

      Kampers, Gerrit; Waechter, Matthias; Hoelling, Michael; Lind, Pedro; Queiros, Silvio D.A.; Peinke, Joachim (Physics Letters A;Volume 384, Issue 15, 29 May 2020, 126307, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-05)
      We introduce a procedure for separating periodic oscillations superposed on a stochastic signal. The procedure combines empirical mode decomposition (EMD) of a signal with tools of data analysis based on stochastic ...
    • Distance Estimation Methods for Smartphone-Based Navigation Support Systems 

      Kuriakose, Bineeth; Shrestha, Raju; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems;295, Conference object, 2021-08-03)
      Distance estimation is a key element of a navigation system. Various methods and instruments are used in distance estimation procedures. The methods and instruments used usually depend on the contexts of the application ...
    • Distinction between sequential and direct ionization in two-photon double ionization of helium 

      Selstø, Sølve (Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics;90, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-10)
      This paper aims to shed some light on the role of the direct, or nonsequential, ionization channel in the regime in which the sequential channel is open in two-photon double ionization (TPDI) of helium. In this regime the ...
    • Distributed Learning Automata-based S-learning scheme for classification 

      Goodwin, Morten; Yazidi, Anis; Jonassen, Tore Møller (Pattern Analysis and Applications;Published online 12 October 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-10)
      This paper proposes a novel classifier based on the theory of Learning Automata (LA), reckoned to as PolyLA. The essence of our scheme is to search for a separator in the feature space by imposing an LA-based random walk ...
    • Distributed learning automata-based scheme for classification using novel pursuit scheme 

      Goodwin, Morten; Yazidi, Anis (Applied intelligenc;volume 50, issue 7, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-02)
      Learning Automata (LA) is a popular decision making mechanism to “determine the optimal action out of a set of allowable actions” (Agache and Oommen, IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern-Part B Cybern 2002(6): 738–749, 2002). The ...
    • DivergentNets: Medical Image Segmentation by Network Ensemble 

      Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael (CEUR Workshop Proceedings;Vol-2886 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop and Challenge on Computer Vision in Endoscopy (EndoCV 2021), Conference object, 2021)
      Detection of colon polyps has become a trending topic in the intersecting fields of machine learning and gastrointestinal endoscopy. The focus has mainly been on per-frame classification. More recently, polyp segmentation ...
    • Do Code Smells Impact the Effort of Different Maintenance Programming Activities? 

      Soh, Zepyr; Yamashita, Aiko; Khomh, Foutse (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2016)
      Empirical studies have shown so far that code smells have relatively low impact over maintenance effort at file level. We surmise that previous studies have found low effects of code smells because the effort considered ...
    • Do Norwegian academics who publish more earn higher salaries? 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Scientometrics;Volume 115, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-21)
      Based on a sense of justice one may expect that productive academics with high publication outputs earn higher salaries than less productive academics. However, there is little evidence to support or reject such a belief. ...
    • Does Clicker Use Improve Exam Scores? A Controlled Randomized Experiment in a Bachelor-Level Course in Software Engineering 

      Kvadsheim, Reidar; Haugerud, Hårek; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Bratterud, Alfred; Habib, Laurence (Journal article, 2015)
      This paper reports a study of clicker use within an undergraduate course in Operating Systems. It is based on a controlled, randomized experiment with a crossover design that measures learning outcomes by means of test ...
    • DoS and DDoS mitigation using Variational Autoencoders 

      Bårli, Eirik Molde; Yazidi, Anis; Viedma, Enrique Herrera; Haugerud, Hårek (Computer Networks;Volume 199, 9 November 2021, 108399, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-01)
      DoS and DDoS attacks have been growing in size and number over the last decade and existing solutions to mitigate these attacks are largely inefficient. Compared to other types of malicious cyber attacks, DoS and DDoS ...
    • DoubleU-Net: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Medical Image Segmentation 

      Jha, Debesh; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Johansen, Dag; Halvorsen, Pål; Johansen, Håvard D. (IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2020 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Conference object, 2020-09-01)
      Semantic image segmentation is the process of labeling each pixel of an image with its corresponding class. An encoder-decoder based approach, like U-Net and its variants, is a popular strategy for solving medical image ...
    • Drawing Abrasive Hologram Animations with Auto-Generated Scratch Patterns 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Eika, Evelyn (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Abrasive holograms allow people to experiment with impressive quasi-holography and create hologram artwork through simple means of creating reflective scratches on sheets of plastic. Most of the reported accounts of abrasive ...
    • A dynamic and scalable parallel Network Intrusion Detection System using intelligent rule ordering and Network Function Virtualization 

      Haugerud, Hårek; Tran, Huy Nhut; Aitsaadi, Nadjib; Yazidi, Anis (Future generations computer systems;Volume 124, November 2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-12)
      A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is a fundamental security tool. However, under heavy network traffic, a NIDS might become a bottleneck. In an overloaded state, incoming and outgoing packets in the network might ...
    • Dynamic Ordering of Firewall Rules Using a Novel Swapping Window-based Paradigm 

      Mohan, Ratish; Yazidi, Anis; Feng, Boning; Oommen, John (Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2016)
      Designing and implementing efficient firewall strategies in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) is far from trivial. This is because, as time proceeds, an increasing number of devices will be connected, accessed and ...