Norsk Regnesentral

ICT Reference Projects

DART works on many projects for a variety of customers or project sponsors. There are three main research focus areas. Some currently running projects and their highlights are listed under each research area below. Also refer to our annual reports for an exhaustive project listing covering all departments of NR.

Information Security

PETWeb II
Privacy-respecting Identity Management for e-Norge
Addressing societal challenges concerning the future of electronic identifiers and electronic identities, ranging from today's crime ("identity theft") to long-term privacy implications and fundamental rights such as informational self-determination.
EUX2010SEC
Enterprise Unified Exchange Security
A research project on trust and security in free and open source software for voice-over-IP telephony based on Asterisk.
RISKnet
Norwegian and Nordic Network in Information Security and Societal Risk
Establishing a network of experts that strengthen expertise and readiness in industry, research, and society, and advancing selected topics.
GEMOM
Genetic Message Oriented Secure Middleware
GEMOM's focus is the significant and measurable increase in the end-to-end intelligence, security, and resilience of complex, distributed information systems.
LongRec
Records Management over Decades
The primary objective of this joint-industry project is the persistent, reliable and trustworthy long-term archival of digital documents, with emphasis on availability and use of documents.

e-Inclusion

Web Citizen
Social media for all
Accessible, usable, and universally designed social media
MobileSage
Situated Adaptive Guidance for the Mobile Elderly
A project to provide elderly people with context-sensitive, personalized and location-sensitive tools to solve everyday tasks in the self-serve society when and where they occur, “just-in-time.”
e-Me
Inclusive Identity Management in New Social Media
Easy-to-use, accessible, and universally designed authentication mechanisms for the social media.
uTRUSTit
Usable TRUST in the Internet of Things
Aims at bridging security, privacy, trust, universal design, usability, and accessibility in the Internet of Things and inter-device communication.
e-Vote
Accessibility and usability evaluation of the upcoming Norwegian electronic voting technology.

Smart Information Systems

MARIAGE
Making Rich Media Accessable for Generations
How will we pass our digital memories ― photos, videos, multimedia ― on to our decendants in the "digital family album" of the digital age?
ADIMUS
Adaptive Internet Multimedia Streaming
Streaming of multimedia over the Internet, and implementing methods that adapt to service quality changes in order to maximize the end-user's subjective experience.
CREDO
Modeling and analysis of evolutionary structures for distributed services
Developing an integrated suite of tools for compositional modeling, testing, and validation of software aimed at evolving networks of dynamically reconfigurable components, including ASK system and biomedical sensor networks.
SAMPOS
Strategies for Seamless Deployment of Mobile Patient Monitoring Systems
SAMPOS investigates novel design strategies for seamless deployment of mobile patient monitoring systems, focusing on low-cost, low-power, and robust/reliable and secure communication solutions.
SeSam4
Semi-semantic models for cross-sector portals
Establishing a framework and models for more efficient development processes of semantic based products and services, e.g. cross-domain portals for the tourist industry.

The Department of Applied Research in Information Technology at the Norwegian Computing Center offers applied research within smart information systems, multimedia, information security, universal design, and e-inclusion. Multimodality is a key strategy to usable data services, and we participate in projects handling multiple devices including mobile phones, PCs, and digital television. Our researchers have high scientific competence and broad industry experience. In addition to research our services cover concept studies, analysis, consultancy, prototyping, training, development, and evaluation.

For more information please contact research director Åsmund Skomedal.

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