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Balanced scorecard as a strategic management tool : the case of Seagull AS
2003
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2003 - Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad Can investments in IT help a company to achieve its overall strategy and vision? Research over several years has resulted in mixed findings but several studies shows that the IT investments actually can result in better performance for companies. To achieve this it is important to align the IT investments with the overall business strategy and vision. The aim of this thesis is to see how Porter’s theories on competitive strategy and Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced scorecard can help the company to specify an IT system for the Operations department. The main idea is that the IT investment will support th…
Evaluation of OSA API's for 3rd party developers of Telco-services
2002
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2002 - Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad Changes in business models introduce new actors to the telecom business. A set of new demands occurs and to handle this, a technical enabler like OSA is needed. Telenor R&D, which often provides Telco services in research projects, must form an opinion concerning this framework. Thus an evaluation of OSA is inquired. This thesis presents an introduction and evaluations of the OSA framework, further, a closer look at two of the OSA API’s (User Status and Terminal Capabilities) are made. To enhance the evaluation, Youngster has been utilized as an example of where the OSA framework can be used. An impl…
Optimized distribution of internationalized DRM-protected multimedia content
2008
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad In this project we have looked into different streaming technologies, transport methods and ways of securing the content. We have performed an analysis of the performance in different scenarios, and tested different ways of distributing the content. We have also looked into some of the newest player technologies, and found the reasons for using them, or to look for alternatives. We have found that the best way to deliver content is to use multiple streams and assembling them on the client. This will take more bandwidth, but with todays internet connections this will be acceptable. The solution th…
Identifying Geographic Terms within Natural Language Text
2008
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad The huge amount of textual data available in digital form in today’s world increases the need for methods that facilitate ease of access and navigability. Automatic extraction of keywords from text bodies is one promising approach. However, the relevance of keywords are context dependent, and extracting relevant keywords often requires a semantic analysis, simply because words may have different meanings in different contexts. It is well-known that resolving such word sense ambiguity automatically can be very challenging. When the topic of interest is geographic information, important keywords wo…
WLAN 802.11 b/g interference into ZigBee networks
2008
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad ZigBee network as a low rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPANs) developed very fast nowadays. Since both ZigBee network and WLAN (802.11b/g) operate in the 2.4GHz unlicensed industrial scientific medical (ISM) frequency band, signal interference is possible to exist and result in signal degradation when devices are collocated in the same environment. This thesis analyzes, simulates and measures the interference and evaluates ZigBee network performance under the WLAN interference in terms of Packet Error Rate (PER) and Packet Loss Ratio (PLR). And the investigation emphasis of this thesis i…
Accurate Measurement and Visualization of Traffic Load in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
2008
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 standard are getting very popular these days, due to their support for new multimedia services and VoIP, and because WLANs are appearing on more and more small devices. This causes a steadily increasing load and becomes a challenge to network administrators who want to make their WLANs run efficiently and to keep the users satisfied. This Master thesis addresses the lack of efficient and affordable monitoring tools for those running WLANs, by developing an accurate method and for the visualization of traffic patterns and bandwidth util…
Modelling of the Universe : Simulation of the GPS (The Global Positioning System)
2007
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2007 – Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad ParAbel is a project at Agder University College aims at mathematics and physics on Internet. One of the sub projects named SimReal [2] (Simulation in ‘Realfag’), which currently aims at simulating behaviours and properties of universe for both mathematics and physics studying. This project focuses on simulation of the GPS which is one sub task in SimReal. In this paper, on the one hand, we will set up a GPS simulation model and use it to be a teaching material for learning mathematics and physics. On the other hand, by testing the simulation model among the college students, we will discuss about th…
Analysis of the use of a workflow engine for OTRUM system software
2007
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2007 – Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad Workflow engines are attracting more and more attention. Applications based on workflow engine technology are currently developed and deployed by many companies, such as OTRUM Company. In this project, we focus on the analysis and development of an efficient workflow engine for interactive TV. The research project will realize workflow engine solutions based on three choices including commercial workflow engine, open source workflow engine, and a workflow engine implemented from scratch. In this project, we go through all mentioned solutions. In the literature, many proposed workflow engines are invo…
Stochastic Learning-Based Estimation Methods for Pattern Recognition and Its Application to Topic Detection and Tracking
2008
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2008 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad Every Pattern Recognition (PR) problem involves a training and a testing phase. In the training phase, the system is presented with samples, using which the distribution (also called the classconditional distribution), of the features, is estimated. Traditional PR systems assume that the class-conditional distributions are stationary, and thus that they do not change with time. Recently Oommen and his co-authors have presented a strategy by which the parameters of a binomial/- multinomial distribution can be estimated when the distribution is non-stationary. In this thesis, we propose a selection…
Mutual Backup System
2007
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2007 – Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad I de senere årene har det kommet nye teknologier for backup og behovet for sikkerhetskopiering er i økende vekst. Både privatbrukere og bedrifter har viktige data som må tas kopier av på en sikker måte og oppbevares på et sikret sted. De fleste bedrifter har gode nok ressurser til å lagre sine data via online backup eller andre løsninger som for eksempel SAN. Privatbrukere har ikke de samme lagringsbehovene, og derfor kan online backup være kostbart for lagring av små mengder data. Vår oppgave går ut på å forske på eksisterende løsninger for sikkerhetskopiering og teknologier som kan benyttes for å u…