Theses
Our research group offers you the possibility to write your theses with us at any time. You can either apply for one of the suggested topics or submit your own proposal, which should be related to one of our research areas. Theses can also be conducted in cooperation with a company.
If you would like to apply for a suggested topic, please send a brief description of your interest in the topic and your last transcript of records via email to the responsible supervisor.
If you would like to propose your own topic, please send a working title, a short description of your topic and your planned approach together with your last transcript of records via email to the researcher(s) of the respective research area.
If you would like to be updated when new topics are announced, as well as to access research materials, please join our StudOn group.
- Data-driven decision making on the shop floor – A state-of-the-art analysis
Supervisor: Markus Schamberger - On the market potential of federated learning
Supervisor: Kristina Müller - Incentivization strategies for federated learning: An empirical analysis
Supervisor: Kristina Müller
Before applying for a topic at our research group, please check the exam regulations of your specific study program regarding master thesis formal requirements (e.g., ECTS pre-requisite). If you have doubt please contact the responsible person of your study program directly.
For Master IIS students, there is no pre-requisite to do the master thesis with us. Nevertheless, we encourage students who may be interested to write their thesis with us, to first attend either our Business Intelligence lecture or one of our seminars.
Please note that students have to be matriculated while working on their master thesis.
- Exposé
As soon as the topic is defined, you start working on the exposé. It consists of:- Motivation
- Research question
- Research design
- Expected results
- Preliminary list of references
- Registration
Once the exposé is approved, the topic can be officially registered. There are 6 month of official working time as per the rules of our faculty. This can be extended only after special circumstances usually requiring the submission of additional documents, such as doctor’s notice. - Working Period
- You are responsible for organizing regular meetings with your supervisor.
- You should give a midterm presentation (10 to 15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes questions) about halfway through your master thesis project.
- You should give a final presentation (15 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes questions).
- Submission
- You need to hand in two hard copies together with a CD or USB with all additional material that have been used for the thesis (e.g., code, interview transcripts, references) directly to the examination office. Specific requirements for submission are usually stated with the registration confirmation from the examination office.
- The thesis should be approximately 25,000 words (60-80 pages).
- An Ethical Analysis Framework for Ethical Implications of Large Language Models in Clinical Care
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel - Large Language Models in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review of Clinical Applications, Diagnoses Support, and Decision-making Enhancements
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel - Graph-Based Approach for Predicting Product Returns in Fashion E-commerce
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel - Enhancing Association Rule Mining with Auto-Encoders using Machine Learning Techniques
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel - Building Al Alliances – Vorgehen zur Identification von strategischen Partnern für die kollaborative Datennutzung
Supervisor: Kristina Müller -
Controlling von Föderalen Lernnetzwerken: Entwicklung eines Reifegradmodells für das Management von KI-Kollaborationen
Supervisor: Kristina Müller