Projects
Ongoing Projects
CoCreat is funded within the EU Lifelong Learning Programme and it aims at promoting creative collaboration in terms of new and innovative learning models based on social media and mobile technology. The main idea is to develop and evaluate collaborative spaces for learners of different ages in order to promote creative collaboration. User groups include children, university students, elderly. The project is a cooperation among 8 partners in 7 European countries.
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A research project within the VERDIKT program for the Norwegian ICT sector, investigating issues in distributed text mining .
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Evicare - Evidence-based care processes: Integrating knowledge in clinical information systems
The main objective of this project is to develop methods and technology for providing “Evidence-Based Medicine” (EBM) at the point of care, integrated with an electronic health record (EHR) or other health information systems directly involved in the clinical process, resulting in higher quality of care and a more detailed, transparent documentation of care processes.
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The principal objective of FABULA is to develop novel principles and technical solutions for learning enabled by seamless roaming in mobile networks, with focus on services that foster the city learning geographies and ecologies and enable new relationships among learners and communities. FABULA is a multidisciplinary effort. The consortium includes at NTNU the Department of Information and Computer Science (IDI), the Dept. of Telematics, and the Center for Learning with ICT.
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Hetero Fra - Heterogenous Framewok for Flow Simulations
Develop a framework and models for the heterogenous computing platforms of the future in the context of large compute-intensive simulations with a special focus on flow simulations.
Statoil funded project in collaborations wtih Dr. Alf B. Rustand, Statoil Research
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Hexanord is a newly established network with participants involved in health science, computer science and information technology in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The overall aim of the network is to explore the differences and similarities in the texts in electronic patient records in the various countries by means of text mining. Another aim of the network is to strengthen cooperation between the participating universities in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The goals of the network
- To exchange experiences, tools and knowledge within text mining of health records
- To create a research training school in text mining of electronic health records in the Nordic countries
- To stimulate the mobility of researchers througout the Nordic countries
- To create synthetic electronic health records (see below)
- To disseminate the networks' results and knowledge to the healthcare sector, but also to the public and other interest group
Electronic patient records
For some years, almost all patient records are electronic. This means that the vast amount of information is now more available for research. The fact that all information now is available in electronic format implies a great opportunity to develope automated tools for textual analysis of the records.
One aim of HEXAnord project is to produce a synthetic database of patient records. The information contained in the records are retrieved from existing records, but will be deconstructed so that it not will be possible to identify the individuals behind the records. HEXAnord is going to develop such databases for all the languages represented in the network. To develop the databases you first need to analyse the differences in the patient records from the respective countries, both in terms of structure, style and content.
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Objective: To provide next generation schema agnostic indexing services by fusing structured, unstructured and multimedia content in precision, analytics and scale optimized information access services.
iAd is hosted by Fast Search and Transfer has the following partners: Cornell University, Dublin City University, Norwegian School of Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Oslo, University of Tromsø, Accenture, and Schibsted
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MIRROR is co-Funded by EC IST FP7 and it brings together 15 partners across Europe, involving industry, research, and testbeds.
The focus of MIRROR is the creation of an easily used set of applications ('Mirror' apps), that enable employees to learn lessons from their own and others experiences to perform better in the future. The project facilitates learning 'on the job', at the workplace, through collaboration and reflection technologies.
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The PRESEMT (Pattern REcognition-based Statistically Enhanced MT) project has been funded under ICT-2009.2.2: Language-based Interaction. It is intended to lead to a flexible and adaptable MT system, based on a language-independent method, whose principles ensure easy portability to new language pairs.
This method attempts to overcome well-known problems of other MT approaches, e.g. compilation of extensive bilingual corpora or creation of new rules per language pair. PRESEMT will address the issue of effectively managing multilingual content and is expected to suggest a language-independent machine-learning-based methodology.
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ReqSec - Requirements for Secure Information Systems
The ReqSec project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council under the FRITEK programme (basic research in technology). It will develop and evaluate methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering, integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main features of the contribution will be as follows:
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The methodology shall be lightweight, meant to be used primarily by mainstream software developers rather than by security experts
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The methodology shall be integrated with popular methodologies for software development in general, so that security requirements can be considered in the normal run of development activities rather than as a separate activity on the side
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Tools delivered in the project will not be developed from scratch but rather as add-ons to existing modeling and requirements management tools. This makes it more realistic to achieve industry-strength functionality and usability within a limited budget, and also ensures that tools will be applicable in a larger development context.
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Thorough evaluations (e.g., experiments, case studies) shall ensure that the methodology provides empirically founded advice on when and how to apply various techniques and tools
The project started August 2008 and includes one PhD student at Univ Bergen (Christian Raspotnig) and 1 post-doc fellow at IDI, NTNU (Peter Karpati). The project manager is Professor Guttorm Sindre at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and the other senior participant is Professor Andreas L. Opdahl at the University of Bergen (UiB).
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SMARTIES - Smart Individal Energy Users
The overall objective of the SmartIES (aka. Trans‐national Nordic Smart City Living Lab Pilot) project is to exchange, analyze and disseminate existing national/local Smart City Living Lab pilot initiatives in the area of Energy saving and intelligent transportation towards successful implementation of a Nordic transnational best practice Smart City Living Lab pilot. The project will focus on energy saving solutions for individual households, in private houses and in transportation. In doing so, user needs and ideas will be the key‐drivers, and the project aims to use existing knowledge on user‐driven innovation methodologies and available technical solutions among partner networks
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Wireless Trondheim Living Lab is member of ENOLL - European Network of Living Labs
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In the near future, intelligent objects and devices will become part of the environment where people live, providing information and offering services that can assist them in everyday life. In such settings, it is desirable that services offered to the us ers are meaningful (i.e. satisfy their tasks and needs). Intelligent environments should support the composition of partial information or service behaviors into comprehensive services that can achieve the user goals. Such composition should take place dynamically as new service opportunities arise, such as when new devices appear or as users enter new environments. Service discovery and composition should not require expert knowledge, but be manageable for ordinary users.
The idea of UbiCompForAll is about providing support to end users so they can easily compose service behaviours in ubiquitous service environments. UbiCompForAll will
provide graphical composition tools targeted the end-users and a service execution platform.
The main challenge of UbiCompForAll is to come up with a comprehensive infrastructure that is sophisticated enough to handle the various aspects of user-driven service compositions (such as simplicity or robustness), while being intuitive enough for ordinary end-users.
UbiCompForAll is a research project founded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project started in October 2008, with planned duration 4 years. It involves academia and industry.
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Advanced information communications technology (ICT) has created an expectation that the innovative use of ICT can deliver high quality healthcare to a situation where patients' data can be supplied seamlessly to support clinical decisions. The world however has moved beyond the current reactive model and hamstrung by the problems of fragmentation and lack of coordination. Medical images are of a typical example. While picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) have come closely to be a universal tool in managing medical images, they only work for radiology images and are searchable by using text descriptions.
Recent Projects
The main objective of the project is development of models, methods and a platform for adaptive intelligent distributed mobile information services support
The increasing number of mobile devices creates opportunity for development of mobile information services. The main advantage of the mobile services is the high availability to customers; anytime and everywhere. Mobile devices enables users to access and use the Internet and services previously only available to PCs.
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Development and use of ICT-solutions in Integrated Operations (IO) in oil and gas production. Establishing new approaches and collaborative technologies for improving the transfer of knowledge across geographical and organizational borders.
Field studies and other empirical methods are applied in order to investigate and evaluate new prototypes and associated work practices.
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ArTe - Art and Information Technology
ArTe aims at enhancing the state of knowledge at the interdisciplinary intersection of Information Technology and the arts. The focus is on creativity, cooperation, and openness of processes and content.
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ASTRA aims to define a framework for supporting the conception and the design of Pervasive Awareness systems, specifically those that are intended to support social relationships.
This project is funded by the EU, via the IST - FET (Future and Emerging Technology) initiative
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Seeking to develop methods to improve support for development, operation and maintenance of business-critical systems/software.
Systematically study key software technologies for the development of business-critical software "in vivo", with the purpose of improving these technologies and/or their usage.
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The CAIM project introduces image context-awareness as a means of supporting image-based information retrieval in distributed and mobile environments. An image can be associated with multiple contexts and knowledge of these contexts can enhance the quality of the information retrieval process. We believe that context-awareness can be used for identifying image semantics and relationships, and may thus contribute to closing the semantic gap between user information requests and the shortcomings of current content-based image retrieval techniques.
CAIM is a project supported by the
Research Council of Norway under the
VERDIKT programme. It is a joint project between University of Tromsø, University of Bergen, NTNU, and Telenor R&D Tromsø.
CORAL - Underwater Computer Vision
Improvment and development of computer vision methods and tools for underwater images. The project aims to determine how to relate colour statics to health of corals, develop tools to gather statics of fish species, and develop an ability to detect and inspect man-made objects underwater.
Underwater computer vision face a variety of challanges related to underwater photograpy. Key challenges are:
- Obscuration of objects of interest by fish/coral/algae in the water.
- Low contrast between different components of the image.
- Change of illumination due to refraction at the surface.
- Change of colour balance with depth due to absorbtion in the water and its contents.
- Change of scale because of the large range of distances of observation and different sizes of fish.
- Large range of types of marking on the fish and contrast with the background.
- Partial obscuration of one fish by another.
- Flexing of fish as they swim and presentation in a wide range of poses.
- Problems with long term immersion of instruments in the sea changing window properties over the field of view.
We gratefully acknowledge help from the University of Mauritius in collecting data for this project.
A research project within the eVita program for the Norwegian ICT sector, investigating issues in data management in Grid systems.
A distributed and decentralized Grid database system which support data interoperability; based on P2P technology and using an ontology-based metadata layer that provides seamless access to the heterogeneous sources in the Data Grid.
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A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries partially funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Information Society Technologies Programme. The main objective of DELOS is to contribute to the development of the enabling technologies for digital libraries.
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Part of thematic area ICT at NTNU
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EVISOFT is a national, user-driven project funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
The research is conducted by: Geomatikk AS (Head of Project), ABB, DnV Software, EDB Business Partner, Firm, Kongsberg Spacetec, ObjectNet, Software Innovation/Genera, Telenor and Vital, SINTEF, NTNU and the Oslo University/Simula Research Laboratory.
The Hercules project is the development of an integrated healthcare scheme for Childhood Neurological Disorders (CND), mainly epilepsy, which will provide cohesive integration of medical, behavioural and genetic information and will build the enabling tools and networks for providing state-of-the-art quality of care, through better disease classification, knowledge discovery and decision support systems.
The project focus will be on individualised disease-monitoring, screening, prevention, early diagnosis, classification and appropriate therapy and follow-up of childhood neurological diseases.
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How to integrate access control to health care information from various systems.
The objective is to create an integrated information platform, which enable multi-disciplinary teams to work simultaneously in an integrated operation environment that may consist of many operation centres geographically dispersed over wide distances.
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IS_A - Integrated semantic access in situated operations
A research project within the VERDIKT program for the Norwegian ICT sector, where the main objective is to enable organizations to run their knowledge-intensive geographically dispersed operations more efficiently by providing a semantic integrated framework for situated multi-modal knowledge access.
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LongRec is a research project on persistent, reliable and trustworthy long-term archival of digital documents, with emphasis on availability and use of documents. The particular problems addressed by LongRec typically emerge when document lifetime exceeds 20 years, and LongRec imposes no upper limit on the lifetime.
The main objectives for the LongRec partners are:
- To enable transition to digital original documents and digital work processes for information that must be available and in use over decades, and
- To explore the potential for commercial products/services in this area. LongRec is performed in cooperation with DNV, NR, and a number of business partners.
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The project will develop and evaluate a prototype process support system for mobile work built on top of existing components. The mobile work system prototype will be:
- Model-driven to support rapid tailoring of work processes to utilise technology changes and to reflect changing requirements at the organisation, group and user levels.
- Multi-channel to support coordinated use of multiple types of mobile devices and other computing equipment in a single work process
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MOSES focuses on increasing the users' abilities to easily express what information and services they need, and to enable service providers to specify services in a manner that is compatible with users' models of the world.
The MOSES project investigates and demonstrates the utility of the semantic web approach as a viable approach to building user-centered, decenteralized, and universally interoperable solutions.
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MOTUS - MObil Teknologi i UndervisningsSammenheng
The project aims at investigating, through prototyping and empirical studies of overall usage, the potential and impact of mobile applications for supporting new forms of cooperation in the educational settings, independent of the participants' location.
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The principal objective: To enable the Norwegian IT sector to fully exploit the benefits and advantages of open source software (OSS); hereunder to exploit software engineering in heterogeneous, distributed and concurrent collaborations.
Subgoals:
- Increased competitive position
- More efficient processes
- Improved business models
NSEP is a multidisciplinary research centre gathering faculty, researchers, projects and doctoral students from medicine, computer science, sociology, nursing, linguistics, management and then some... Currently (2007) the centre hosts 7 senior faculty, 4 researchers/postdocs, and around 20 PhD students. Colocated with NSEP is IDI´s reconfigurable healthcare usability laboratory, in which it is possible to simulate and test mobile and other clinical information systems.
NSEP does research within all aspects of the electronic health record, including user interfaces, architecture, representation, content, analysis, distribution, use, evaluation, development and role in delivering and improving quality and efficiency of health care.
The Norwegian Research Council funds the project with MNOK 25. See their project description
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The activities in the QUIS project will be directed towards QUality in e-learning, Interoperability and reusability of e-learning material and development of Standards.
The project will also look at cost beffectiveness in e-learning. Quality in e-learning is important to be able to exchange both learning materials and learning practices across HEI’s in Europe. To establish joint study programs it is essential that cooperating institutions accept each others Quality Assurance Systems (QAS).
Expected results:
- A “database” of information of QAS’ and quality in e-learning reports
- A report on quality in e-learning to establish:
- Joint European study programes
- Best practice for net based education across language and cultural barriers
- State of the art report regarding managerial, content and pedagogical capabilities of LMS’
- An guide to understand standards and relationships between different initiatives and projects
- A requirement specification for the next generation of learning support systems
- A model report on cost effectiveness based on both a theoretical and practical approach
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Art finds expression in numerous products in society, where developments of products are complex, competitive, global and intercultural in scope. The advent of multi media technology has changed art production processes and the way both music, video, and figurative is fruited by consumers. Our assumption is that the interaction between software technology and art is also beneficial for the software technologists.
This project confronts the interdisciplinary problem of integrating software designs originating from different academic genre into better products for society. The research method will be based on empirical software engineering and will benefit from the interaction with experts from different disciplines, like artists.
The SEVO project aims to use empirical investigations to help understand the nature and profile software evolution. Focusing specifically on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), we are looking to study industrial software, and develop methods to better handle software evolution.
Main Goals
- Improved understanding of Software EVOlution
- Improved methods for predicing risks and costs
Aims to examine, propose, try out and improve novel methods and techniques to balance the
classic counterparts -- time-to-market and reliability in the development of the web-based systems.
Key expected results of WEBSYS include a set of measured, annotated and improved software engineering technologies for how to perform trade-offs between TTM and reliability, empirical data and an operational method framework around empirical studies, general presentation material and courses, and dissemination effort to relevant fora.
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Investigating core issues of the semantic Web. Issues ranging from enterprise modelling and user interface design, to information categorisation and interpretation, information storage, - access, and -retrieval.
Deliveing improved methodology for model-based engineering of web-services and applications, with a particular focus on workflow modelling.
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