Projects

• Knowledge Harvesting from International Joint Ventures
• Torelli Actions and Smooth Structures on 4-manifolds
• Electric Fields for Surface Design and Chemical Analysis
• Automated ANTLR tree walker generation
• Aligning Biomedical Ontologies
• Visual Evaluation of 3D Image Enhancement
• Adding Value to Hotel Loyalty Programs for both Guest and Hotel
• Metabolic disturbances in shift workers
• Bone mass and physical activity

Knowledge Harvesting from International Joint Ventures This dissertation explores and analyses factors which could facilitate Knowledge Harvesting, and also how important it is for the parent companies. Knowledge Harvesting is one of the knowledge processes within an international joint venture network that has not received much attention from the academic community.

Torelli Actions and Smooth Structures on 4-manifolds In the theory of Artin presentations, a smooth four manifold is already determined by an Artin presentation of the fundamental group of its boundary. Thus, one of the central problems in four dimensional smooth topology, namely the study of smooth structures on these manifolds and their Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants

Electric Fields for Surface Design and Chemical Analysis This thesis deals with the use of electric fields for evaluation and control of chemical systems. An electric field can result in the flow of charge across an interface between a metal and a solution, by means of chemical reactions. This interplay between electricity and chemistry, i.e. electrochemistry, is a field of crucial importance both within research and industry.

Automated ANTLR tree walker generation ANTLR is a parser generator that allows the user to write flexible multi-pass language parsers. It can generate a parser that builds an abstract syntax tree from the parsed text, and it can generate tree walkers that can parse this tree. A typical ANTLR multi-pass language parser consists of one or more tree walkers

Aligning Biomedical Ontologies The amount of biomedical information that is disseminated over the Web increases every day. This rich resource is used to find solutions to challenges across the life sciences. The Semantic Web for life sciences shows promise for effectively and efficiently locating, integrating..

Visual Evaluation of 3D Image Enhancement Image enhancement in 2 dimension is actually a famous and used approach. However the technologies in image acquisition have developed and these techniques usually offer image volumes in 3 or more dimensions, as in computer tomography, CT and magnetic resonance imaging, MRI. Three dimensions could have 2 spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate or three [...]

Adding Value to Hotel Loyalty Programs for both Guest and Hotel Loyalty programs are widely used in the tourism and hospitality industry, indeed instances where airlines, hire-car agencies and hotels are not part of a program are rare. Loyalty Programs not only encourage and reward customer loyalty but allow a company to learn specific details about an individual’s patterns and behaviour.

Metabolic disturbances in shift workers An increased risk for coronary heart disease among shift workers is earlier shown in the epidemiological literature. The aim of this thesis has been to penetrate metabolic disturbances and obesity among shift workers compared to day workers, and to compare if there are differences in total mortality or cause specific mortality of coronary heart disease

Bone mass and physical activity Weak and osteoporotic bones in old age are an increasing cause of mortality and painful physical impairment of the elderly, especially in the western world. Bone mineral accrual during childhood and adolescence is thought to play a vital role in preventing osteoporosis.