Theses

Formal requirements

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.

Topic

There are two options for searching and defining a topic.

Option 1: You have a topic in mind you would like to suggest. In this case, please contact the assistant who’s research is in the area of the topic you would like to suggest. Send a working title, and a short description, as well as your latest transcript of records.

Option 2: Search for suggested topics (see list below). Alternatively, contact the assistant who’s research project appeals you the most and ask for available topics.

Procedure

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 – as soon as the exposé is approved, the topic can be officially registered. There are 6 months 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

• Usually two hard copies are required for submission together with a CD or USB with all additional materials that have been used for the thesis (e.g., code, interview transcripts, references). Specific requirements for submission are usually stated with the registration confirmation from the examination office.
• Thesis should be ca. 25 000 words.

Template

Word template in German.

Word template in English.

Latex template here.

Proposed Thesis Topics

A taxonomy of business models of telemedicine companies (en)
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel
Business models of drug discovery startups (en)
Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel

Running Theses

• Investigating the association between network metrics and standard KPIs in football per player position (en)
  Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel
• Football analytics with open data (en)
  Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel
• Exploring energy-aware development of AI applications in business practice (en)
• Supervisor: Pavlina Kröckel