15/05 - Disputation Stig Ole Johnsen

10^th of May, Stig Ole Johnsen completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Torbjørn Skramstad supervised Stig's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Eric Monteiro, Professor Britt-Marie Drottz Sjøberg and Professor Jørn Vatn have co-supervised the PhD work.

Stig's trial lecture was titled: Communicating Risk on individual-, system- and societal level to an entire population.

He defended his PhD thesis:
An Investigation of Resilience in Complex Socio-Technical Systems to Improve Safety and Continuity in Integrated Operations (pdf)

25/04 - Disputation Mikhail Fominykh

24^th of April, Mikhail Fominykh completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Assoicate Professor Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland supervised Mikhail's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Professor Alf Inge Wang, Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren and Associate Professor Mikhail Morozov have co-supervised the PhD work.

Mikhail's trial lecture was titled: Co-creation design of content for learning communities: Exploring the research and technological challenges. This may include the challenges of using virtual worlds or other social media in the co-creation design process (pdf)

He defended his PhD thesis:
Collaborative Work on 3D Educational Content (pdf)
Slides (pdf)

15/03 - Disputation Tor Erlend Fægri

13^th of March, Tor Erlend Fægri completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Assoicate Professor Torgeir Dingsøyr supervised Tor's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Professor Eric Monteiro and Chief Scientist Tore Dybå have co-supervised the PhD work.

Tor's trial lecture was titled: Trends within Software Process Improvement (pdf)

He defended his PhD thesis:
Collaborative learning in software development: An investigation of characteristics, prerequisites and improvement (pdf)
Slides (pdf)

Photo: Torstein Hjelle

29/02 - Disputation Nattiya Kanhabua

24^th of February, Nattiya Kanhabua completed her trial lecture and thesis defense. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg supervised Nattiya's PhD work at the Data and Information Management research group. Professor Jon Atle Gulla and  Associate Professor Heri Ramampiaro have co-supervised the PhD work.

Nattiya's trial lecture was titled: Supporting exploration and serendipity in information retrieval (pdf)

She defended her PhD thesis:
Time-aware Approaches to Information Retrieval (pdf)
Slides (pdf)

Photos from the event by Heri Ramampiaro (Picasa)

08/02 - Disputation João Batista Rocha-Junior

30^th of January, João Batista Rocha-Junior completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg supervised João's PhD work at the Data and Information Management research group. Professor Jon Atle Gulla,  Adjunct Associate Professor Jon Olav Hauglid, Research Scientist Akrivi Vlachou og Post Doctoral Fellow Christos Doulkeridis have co-supervised the PhD work.

João's trial lecture was titled: Quering and Managing Social Data (pdf)

He defended his PhD thesis:
Efficient Processing of Preference Queries in Distributed and Spatial Databases (pdf)
Slides (pdf)

Photos from the event (Flickr) by Heri Ramampiaro, Naimdjon Takhirov and Kai T. Dragland

16/12 - Disputation Basit Ahmed Khan

15^th of Desember, Basit Ahmed Khan completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Professor Mihhail Matskin supervised Basit's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Rolf Bræk and Professor Monica Divitini have co-supervised the PhD work.

Basit completed his PhD work at the FABULA research project, which was funded by the Reseach Council of Norway's VERDIKT programme.

Basit's trial lecture was titled: Digital Ecologies: Theory and Applications.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Applying Multi-Agent Software System to Support Citywide Mobile Learning (pdf)

Photo: Private

01/12 - Disputation Norvald Hegelstad Ryeng

28^th of November, Norvald Hegelstad Ryeng completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg supervised Norvald's PhD work at the Data and Information Management research group. Professor Svein Erik Bratsberg and Senior Staff Engineer Olav Sandstad have co-supervised the PhD work.

Norvald's trial lecture was titled: Methods for Storing Data in Distributed Systems and Cloud.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Improving Query Processing Performance in Large Distributed Database Management Systems (pdf)

Photos from the disputation (Picasa).

Photos: Heri Ramampiaro

29/11 - Disputation Ole Andreas Alsos

24^th of November, Ole Andreas Alsos completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Dag Svanæs supervised Ole's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Øystein Nytrø and Associate Professor Arild Faxvaag have co-supervised the PhD work.

The committee for the disputation were: Professor Jan Stage from Aalborg University and Associate Professor Monique W. Jaspers from the University of Amsterdam. Professor Letizia Jaccheri from our department was the administrator for the event.

Ole's trial lecture was titled: Human computer interaction research issues in computer games.

Ole defended his PhD thesis:
Mobile Point-of-Care Systems in Hospitals:Designing for the Doctor-Patient Dialogue (pdf)

Photos from the trial lecture and thesis defense (Flickr).

23/09 - Disputation Nils Brede Moe

21^st and 22^nd of September, Nils Brede Moe completed his trial lectures, and on 22^nd of September he completed his thesis defence for the degree of Doctor philosophiae.

Nils' first trial lecture was titled Future of Global Software Development – Opportunities and challenges of combining insourcing and offshoring and the second trial lecture was titled The role of different testing techniques in change-driven development.

The committee for the defence were: professor Kurt Schneider (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Dr. Outi Salo (Nokia Corporation), and professor Torbjørn Skramstad (NTNU) which also  coordinated the event

Nils defended his doctoral thesis:
From Improving Processes to Improving Practice - Software Process Improvement in Transition from Plan-driven to Change-driven Development (DiVA)

Photos of the committee and the candidate (Flickr).

30/08 - Disputation Dragana Laketic

26^th of August, Dragana Laketic completed her trial lecture and thesis defense. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Pauline Haddow supervised the first half of the PhD, and Associate Professor Gunnar Tufte supervised the second half of Dragana's PhD work at the Computer Architecture and Design research group. Adjunct Associate Professor Snorre Aunet co-supervised the first half of the PhD, and Professor Trond Ytterdal the last part of the PhD work.

Dragana's trial lecture was titled: The pros and cons of bio-inspiration applied to hardware engineering.

Dragana defended her PhD thesis:
A Novel Framework for Achieving Adaptation in Man-Made Systems Inspired by the Organisation of Living Systems (pdf)

Photo: Private

10/06 - Disputation Truls Amundsen Bjørklund

9^th of June, Truls Amundsen Bjørklund completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Professor Bjørn Olstad supervised Truls' PhD work at the Algorithms, HPC and Graphics research group. Associate Professor Magnus Lie Hetland and Adjunct Associate Professor Øystein Torbjørnsen have co-supervised the PhD work.

Truls' trial lecture was titled: Issues in building and running a search engine in the cloud.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Column Stores versus Search Engines and Applications to Search in Social Networks (pdf)

Photo: Magnus Lie Hetland

06/06 - Disputation Jon Espen Ingvaldsen

26^th of May, Jon Espen Ingvaldsen completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Jon Atle Gulla supervised Jon's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg and Chief Engineer Steinar Carlsen have co-supervised the PhD work.

Jon's trial lecture was titled: Complex Event Processing (CEP): Concepts, methods, technologies and tools, examples of applications that rely on and may benefit from CEP and impacts of CEP on business processes.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Semantic Process Mining of Enterprise Transaction Data (pdf)

Photo: Private

30/05 - Disputation Nils Grimsmo

27^th of May, Nils Grimsmo completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Professor Bjørn Olstad supervised Nils' PhD work at the Algorithms, HPC and Graphics research group. Adjunct Associate Professor Øystein Torbjørnsen has co-supervised the PhD work.

Nils' trial lecture was titled: Present a survey of modern parallel databases in cloud computing. Emphasize the following two topics:1) The effects and handling of relaxed consistency, and 2) The application of semi-structured data.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Bottom Up and Top Down - Twig Pattern Matching on Indexed Trees (pdf)

Photo: Nina Grimsmo

24/05 - Disputation Kirsti Elisabeth Berntsen

23^rd of May, Kirsti Elisabeth Berntsen completed her trial lecture and thesis defense. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Eric Monteiro supervised Kirsti's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Monica Divitine and Professor Morten Levin have co-supervised the PhD work.

Kirsti's trial lecture was titled: Global consequences of information system innovation on service work.

Kirsti defended her PhD thesis:
IS supported service work: A case study of global certification (pdf)

Photo: Torstein Elias L.Hjelle

13/05 - Disputation Stein Løkke Tomassen

11^th of May, Stein Løkke Tomassen completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Jon Atle Gulla supervised Stein's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Dr. Gunnar Auran and Dr. Robert Engels have co-supervised the PhD work.

Stein's trial lecture was titled: Enabling the Web of Entities: Scalability and Data Quality Problems of  the Semantic Web.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Conceptual Ontology Enrichment for Web Information Retrieval (pdf)

11/04 - Disputation Shang Gao

7^th of April, Shang Gao completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor John Krogstie supervised Shang's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Guttorm Sindre and Professor Andreas Opdahl have co-supervised the PhD work.

Shang's trial lecture was titled: Agile modeling - a contradiction or opportunity?

Shang Gao defended his PhD thesis:
High Level Modeling and Evaluation of Multi-Channel Services (pdf)

Photo: Private

04/04 - Disputation Odd Petter Nord Slyngstad

1^st of April, Odd Petter Nord Slyngstad completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Reidar Conradi supervised Odd Petter's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Professor Torbjørn Skramstad and Chief Scientist Tore Dybå have co-supervised the PhD work.

Odd Petter's trial lecture was titled: Current trends and frameworks for model-driven approaches to software development.

Odd Petter defended his PhD thesis:
Component-Based Software Engineering: Modern Trends, Evolution and Perceived Architectural Risks (pdf)

Photo: Sari C. Cunningham

15/03 - Disputation Salah Uddin Ahmed

11^th of March, Salah Uddin Ahmed completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Letizia Jaccheri supervised Salah's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Professor Guttorm Sindre and Professor Kristin Bergaust have co-supervised the PhD work.

Salah's trial lecture was titled: Analysing computer-related works of art: methodological and  theoretical considerations.

Salah defended his PhD thesis:
Extending Software Engineering Collaboration: towards the Intersection of Software and Art (pdf)

Photo: Torstein Elias L.Hjelle

03/03 - Disputation Gasparas Jarulaitis

2^nd of March, Gasparas Jarulaitis completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Eric Monteiro supervised Gasparas' PhD work at the Design and Use of Information Systems research group. Senior Advicer Knut-Helge Ronæs Rolland and Professor Letizia Jaccheri have co-supervised the PhD work.

Gasparas' trial lecture was titled: Strengths and weaknesses of 'local' and 'practice' approaches within information systems research for the study of integration.

Gasparas defended his PhD thesis:
Characterising integration in practice: A case study of collaborative infrastructure (pdf)

Photo: Torstein Elias L.Hjelle

21/12 - Disputation Thorvald Natvig

20^th of December, Throvald Natvig completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate Professor Anne C. Elster supervised Thorvald's PhD work at the Algorithms, HPC, and Graphics research group.

Thorvald's trial lecture was titled: MPI-3 and future high performance computing (HPC).Give an overview and discuss how the proposed MPI-3 standard will address demands of performance and resiliency in future HPC.

Throvald defended his PhD thesis:
Automatic Run-Time Communication and I/O Optimizations (pdf)

13/12 - Disputation Gry Seland

7^th of December, Gry Seland completed her trial lecture and thesis defense. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Dag Svanæs supervised Gry's PhD work at the Design and Use of Information Systems research group. Associate Professor Øystein Nytrø and Associate Professor Hallvard Trætteberg have co-supervised the PhD work.

Gry's trial lecture was titled: Describe and discuss the role of methods in systems development theory and practice.

Gry defended her PhD thesis:
Role-Play Workshops as a User-Centred Design Method for Mobile IT (pdf)

Photo: Private

03/12 - Disputation Geir Kjetil Hanssen

30^th of November, Geir Kjetil Hanssen completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Reidar Conradi supervised Geir's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Adjunct Professor Tore Dybå and Professor Eric Monteiro have co-supervised the PhD work.

In photo from left to right: Associate Professor Mohammad Ali Babar, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Professor Torbjørn Skramstad, and Professor Helen Sharp. Photo: Leendert Wienhofen.

Geir Kjetil's trial lecture was titled: Knowledge Engineering applied to Software Engineering – past, present and future.

Geir Kjetil defended his PhD thesis:
From Agile Software Product Line Engineering Towards Software Ecosystems (pdf)

13/10 - Disputation Magnus Jahre

12^th of October, Magnus Jahre completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Lasse Natvig supervised Magnus' PhD work at the Computer Architecture and Design research group, with Dr.ing. Torstein Heggebø and Professor Mads Nygård as co-supervisers.

The trial lecture, The use of GPUs for High-Performance Computing, had a record breaking number of attendants, as students from both the Parallel Computing and the Heterogeneous and Green Computing courses attended the trial lecture.

Magnus Jahre defended his PhD thesis:
Managing Shared Resources in Chip Multiprocessor Memory Systems (pdf)

Photos from the trial lecture (Flickr)

04/10 - Disputation Andreas Aas

28^th of September, Andreas L. Aas completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Torbjørn Skramstad have supervised Andreas' PhD work at the Design and Use of Information Systems research group. Professor Tor Stålhane and Dr. Lars Bratthall have co-supervised the work.

Andreas Aas defended his PhD thesis:
Industrial Application of Human Factors Safety Standards (pdf)

Photo: Private

09/09 - Disputation Line Kolås

3^rd of September, Line Kolås completed her trial lecture and thesis defence. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate Professor Arvid Staupe and Professor Torbjørn Skramstad have supervised Line's PhD work at the Intelligent Learning Arenas research group. Associate Profesor Lars Vavik was a co-superviser for the PhD work.

In photo from left to right: Arvid Staupe, Line Kolås, and Torbjørn Skramstad.

Line Kolås defended her PhD thesis:
Implementation of Pedagogical Principles into the Software Design Process of E-learning Applications (pdf)

22/06 - Disputation Birgit R. Krogstie

Monday 21^st of June, Birgit R. Krogstie completed her trial lecture and thesis defence. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Monica Divitini has supervised Birgit's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group.

Birgit's PhD work was inter-disiplinary and crossed three different fields of expertice. The selection of committee members for the disputation were selected to reflect these fields.

As we want more women in Computer Science research it was a happy coincedence that almost all persons involved (the candidate, the supervisor, the administrator, and the members of the committee) were women.

Birgit Krogstie defended her PhD thesis:
The work-reflection-learning cycle in software engineering student projects: Use of collaboration tools (pdf)

In photo from left to right: Professor Monica Divitini (supervisor), Dr. Jocelyn Armarego (committee member), Birgit R. Krogstie, Professor Ove Kr. Haugaløkken (co-supervisor), Professor Barbara Wasson (committee member), and Professor Letizia Jaccheri (administrator).

Photos from the event (Flickr).

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22/06 - Disputation Øyvind Hauge

17^th of June, Øyvind Hauge completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Reidar Conradi has supervised Øyvind's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group.

Øyvind Hauge defended his PhD thesis:
Adoption of Open Source Software in Software-Intensive Industry (pdf)

Photo: Torstein Hjelle

14/06 - Disputation Marius Grannæs

9^th of June, Marius Grannæs completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Lasse Natvig has supervised Marius' PhD work at the Computer Architecture and Design research group.

Marius Grannæs defended his PhD thesis:
Reducing Memory Latency by Improving Resource Utilization (pdf)

Photo: Lasse Natvig

28/05 - Disputation Fredrik Orderud

27^th of May, Fredrik Orderud completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Professor Bjørn Olstad supervised Fredrik's PhD work at the Algorithms, HPC, and Graphics research group.

Fredrik Orderud defended his PhD thesis:
Real-time Segmentation of 3D Echocardiograms Using a State Estimation Approach With Deformable Models (pdf)

Photo: Private

26/05 - Disputation Boye Annfelt Høverstad

14^th of May, Boye Annfelt Høverstad completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Keith Downing supervised Boye's PhD work at the Self-Organizing Systems research group.

Boye Annfelt Høverstad defended his PhD thesis:
Exploring Structural and Dynamical Factors in the Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks (pdf)

Photo: Private

08/02 - Disputation Martin Thorsen Ranang

5^th of February, Martin Thorsen Ranang completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate Professor Tore Amble supervised Martin's PhD at the Logic and Language Technology research group.

In photo from left to right: Professor Jon Atle Gulla, Martin Throsen Ranang, and Professor Janne Bondi Johannessen.

Martin Thorsen Ranang defended his PhD thesis:
Open-Domain World-Level Interpretation of Norwegian: Towards a General Encyclopedic Question-Answering System for Norwegian (pdf)

26/10 - Disputation Thomas Østerlie

Friday 21^st of October, Thomas Østerlie completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Letizia Jaccheri supervised Thomas' PhD at the Software Engineering group.

Thomas defended his PhD thesis:
Problems and Solutions Maintaining and Integrated System in a Community of Volunteers (pdf)

19/10 - Disputation Axel Tidemann

Friday 16^th of October, Axel Tidemann completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate Professor Pinar Öztürk supervised Axel Tidemann's PhD at the Self-Organizing Systems group.

Axel Tidemann defended his PhD thesis:
A Groovy Virtual Drummer: Learning by Imitation Using a Self-Organizing Connectionist Architecture (pdf)

Photo: Private

11/09 - Disputation Jo Skjermo

10^th of September, Jo Skjermo completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Keith Downing and Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren supervised Jo Skjermo's PhD at the Algorithms, HPC, and Graphics research group.

Jo Skjermo defended his PhD thesis:
Generation, Rendering and Animation of Polygon Tree Models (pdf)

04/06 - Disputation Ole Christian Eidheim

29th of May, Ole Christian Eidheim completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Keith Downing supervised Ole's PhD at the Self-Organizing Systems research group.

Ole Christian Eidheim defended his PhD thesis:
New Approaches for Representation and Segmentation of Organs in CT and MR scans (pdf)

Photo: Private

02/06 - Disputation Anita Ashok Gupta

28th of May, Anita Ashok Gupta completed her trial lecture and thesis defence. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Reidar Conradi supervised Anita's PhD at the Software Engineering research group.

Anita Gupta defended her PhD thesis:
The Profile of Software Change in Reusable vs. Non-Reusable Industrial Software System (pdf)

Photos from the event (Flickr).

29/01 - Disputation Lillian Røstad

27th of January, Lillian Røstad completed her trial lecture and thesis defence. She will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate professor Øystein Nytrø supervised Lillian's PhD at the Design and Use of Information Systems group.

In photo from left to right: associate professor Dag Svanes, professor Svein Johan Knapskog, professor Ravi Sandhu, Lillian Røstad, associate professor Øystein Nytrø, and associate professor Silvana Quaglini.

Lillian Røstad defended her PhD thesis:
Access Control in Healthcare Information Systems (pdf)

Photos from the PhD defence.

20/01 - Disputation Sven Ziemer

19th of January Sven Ziemer completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Sven completed his PhD at the Software Engineering group, supervised by professor Tor Stålhane.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Trade-offs for Web Apllication Development; Understanding and Improving Current industrial Practices (pdf)

15/09 - Disputation Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad Sandve

12th of September Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad Sandve completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Geir Kjetil carried out his PhD at the Algorithms, HPC, and Graphics group, supervised by professor Arne Halaas.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Potentials and limitations of motif-based binding site prediction in DNA (pdf)

04/09 - Disputation Olaf Rene Birkeland

2nd and 3rd of September Olaf Rene Birkeland completed his trial lectures, and on 3rd of September he completed his thesis defence for the degree of Doctor philosophiae.

The committee for the defence were: professor Brian Vinter from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, associate professor Arne Maus from the University of Oslo, and professor Mads Nygård which also was coordinator for the event.

Olaf Rene Birkeland defended his doctoral thesis:
Searching large data volumes with MISD processing (Diva link)

Photos from the event (Flickr).

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20/06 - Disputation Heine Kolltveit

20th of June Heine Kolltveit completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Heine completed his PhD for the Database Systems group, supervised by professor Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Efficient Commit Processing in High-Availability Main-Memory Databases (pdf)

Photos from the event.

19/05 - Disputation Nicolae-Zoran Constantinescu-Fülöps

16th of May Nicolae-Zoran Constantinescu-Fülöps completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doctor scientiarum degree. Professor Richard Blake supervised the doctoral work, which was carried out for the Knowledge-Based Systems group.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
A Desktop Grid Computing Approach for Sientific Computing and Visualization (pdf)

05/05 - Disputation Jörg Cassens

5th of May Jörg Cassens completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doctor scientiarum degree. Professor Agnar Aamodt from the Knowledge-Based Systems group, supervised Jörg's doctoral work.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Explanation Awareness and Ambient Intelligence as Social Technologies (pdf)

25/04 - Disputation Asbjørn Djupdal

24th of April Asbjørn Djupdal completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. The PhD was completed at the Computer Architecture and Design group, with associate professor Pauline Haddow as supervisor.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Evolving Static Hardware Redunancy for Defect Tolerant FPGAs (pdf)

04/04 - Disputation Yun Lin

3rd of April Yun Lin completed her trial lecture and thesis defence, and she will eventually be awarded the Doktor ingeniør degree. Yun Lin is the last of a long serie of doctoral students supervised by professor Arne Sølvberg from the Information Systems group.

She defended her doctoral thesis:
Semantic Annotation for Process Models: Facilitating Process Knowledge Mangement via Semantic Interoperability (pdf)

Persons in photo from left to right: Letizia Jaccheri, Antonio Olivé, Yun Lin, Arne Sølvberg, and Colette Rolland (one of the first woman professors in computer science)

Congratulation to Yun and to our Dean.

31/03 - Disputation Waclaw Kusnierczyk

28th of March Waclaw Kusnierczyk completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doktor ingeniør degree. Waclaw's doctoral work was carried out at the Knowledge-Based Systems group, supervised by professor Agnar Aamodt.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Augmenting Bioinformatics Research with Biomedical Ontologies (pdf)

14/01 - Disputation Yngve Dahl

10th of December Yngve Dahl completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Associate professor Øystein Nytrø from the Design and Use of Information Systems group, supervised Yngve's PhD.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Ubiquitous Computing at Point of Care in Hospitals: A User-Centered Approach (pdf)

19/12 - Disputation Jon Arvid Børretzen

17th of December Jon Arvid Børretzen completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Jon Arvid carried out his PhD work at the Software Engineering group, under professor Reidar Conradi's supervision.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Software Fault Reporting Processes in Business-Critical Systems (pdf)

04/12 - Disputation Jørgen Løland

4th of December Jørgen Løland completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd at the Database Systems group supervised Jørgen's PhD.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Materialized View Creation and Transformation of Schemas in Highly Available Database Systems (pdf)

30/11 - Disputation Siv Hilde Houmb

30th of November Siv Hilde Houmb completed her trial lecture and thesis defence, and she will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Siv Hilde completed her PhD under supervision from professor Tor Stålhane at the Software Engineering group.

She defended her PhD thesis:
Decision Support for Choice of Security Solution: The Aspect-Oriented Risk-Driven Development (AORDD) Framework (pdf)

23/11 - Disputation Inger Dybdahl Sørby

22nd of November Inger Dybdahl Sørby completed her trial lecture and thesis defence, and she will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Øystein Nytrøe from the Design and Use of Information Systems group has been the supervisor for Inger's PhD.

She defended her PhD thesis:
Observing and Analyzing Clinicians' Information and Communacation Behaviour: An Approach to Requirements Engineering for Mobile Health Information Systems (pdf)

23/11 - Disputation Glenn Munkvold

21st of November Glenn Munkvold completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doctor scientiarum degree. Professor Monica Divitini supervised Glenn's doctoral work at the Software Engineering group.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Making IT Work in Practice: Integrating the ERP-based Nursing Record with Nursing Work (pdf)

19/11 - Disputation Pavel Petrovic

16th of November Pavel Petrovic completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Keith Downing from the Self-Organizing Systems group, supervised Pavel's PhD work.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Incremental Evolutionary Methods for Automatic Programming of Robot Controllers (pdf)

Photo: Tore Bruland

15/11 - Disputation Finn Olav Bjørnson

14th of November Finn Olav Bjørnson completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Finn Olav's PhD was supervised by professor Reidar Conradi from the Software Engineering Group.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Knowledge Management in Software Process Improvement (pdf)

15/10 - Disputation Peter Boros

11th of October Peter Boros completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doktor ingeniør degree. Professor Richard Blake supervised Peter's doctoral work at the Knowledge-Based Systems group.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Object Recognition: Modelling and the Interface to a control Strategy for Matching (pdf)

01/10 - Disputation Sigve Hovda

1st of October Sigve Hovda completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Bjørn Olstad supervised Sigve's PhD, which was carried out for the Algorithms, HPC, and Graphics group.

He defended his PhD thesis:
New Doppler-Based Imaging Methods in Echocardiography with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation (pdf)

21/08 - Disputation Simon Thoresen

20th of August Simon Thoresen completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Richard Blake from the Knowledge-Based Systems group, was Simon's supervisor for the PhD.

He defended his PhD thesis:
An effecient solution to inexact graph matching with application to computer vision (pdf)

05/06 - Disputation Anders Kofod-Petersen

1^st of June Anders Kofod-Petersen completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doctor scientiarum degree. The doctoral work was carried out at the Knowledge-Based Systems Group, under supervision by professor Agnar Aamodt.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
A Cased-Based Approach to Realising Ambient Intelligence among Agents (pdf)

03/05 - Disputation Haakon Dybdahl

3rd of May Haakon Dybdahl completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Haakon completed his PhD for the Computer Architecture and Design group, supervised by professor Lasse Natvig.

Appearing from left to right on photo: Haakon Dybdahl, Gjessing, Gonzalez, and Pauline Haddow.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Architectural Techniques to Improve Cache Utilization (pdf)

29/03 - Disputation Cyril Banino-Rokkones

27^th of March Cyril Banino-Rokkones completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doktor ingeniør degree. The doctoral work was carried out at the Computer Architecture and Design group, under supervision from professor Lasse Natvig.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Algorithmic and Scheduling Techniques for Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing (pdf)

23/03 - Disputation Jennifer Sampson

21st of March Jennifer Sampson completed her trial lecture and thesis defence, and she will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Arne Sølvberg from the Information Systems group, supervised Jennifer's PhD.

She defended her PhD thesis:
A Comprehenshive Framework for Ontology Alignment Quality (pdf)

16/02 - Disputation Frode Sørmo

9^th of February Frode Sørmo completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doctor scientiarum degree. Frode completed his doctoral work at the Knowledge-Based Systems group, with professor Agnar Aamodt as supervisor.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
Case-Based Tutoring with Concept Maps (pdf)

23/11 - Disputation Hao Ding

23^rd of September Hao Ding completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the Doktor ingeniør degree. Professor Ingeborg Sølvberg from the Information Management group, supervised Hao Ding's doctoral work.

He defended his doctoral thesis:
A Semantic Search Framework in Peer-to-Peer Based Digital Libraries (pdf)

10/11 - Disputation Hien Nam Le

10^th of November, Hien Nam Le completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. 14^th of November, he was awarded the PhD degree by the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Professor Mads Nygård supervised Hien's PhD at the Database Systems group.

Hien defended his PhD thesis:
A Transaction Processing System for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Works (pdf)

Photos from the dissertation.