Theses
Master thesis / Diploma theses
1. End of January: Topic selection
Students choose their topic from the topic list or suggest a (similar) topic (The topic list will be released online before the christmas break; send email with selected topic to supervisor (first come - first serve).
2. End of February:
Start writing and submit thesis proposal (5-10 pages) to supervisor (incl. motivation, research question, key literature, research method, expected results, structure).
3. From March on: Registration of the Master thesis
(Requirement: Successful completion of all modules, and with supervisor agreed thesis proposal.)
- Complete the form „Assessment of the compulsory module: Preparation of the Master’s Thesis” to the examination office link.
- „Application for a Master‘s Thesis Topic“ from LFU to „Prüfungsamt“ (form
) - Registration for Master AG
4. End of September: Writing the Master thesis with supervisor feedback
5. End of November: Finalising the Master thesis
6. End of December, the latest: Submitting the Master thesis
(-> completing master studies within 4. semesters: submitting the thesis until end of September)
- Master thesis: min. 50 pages of content
Formatting:
Word style sheet
Latex style sheet - Submission: 2 printouts to „Prüfungsamt“, and electronically (e.g. word, pdf, latech) with USB stick or link to archive to WI-secretary and by email to the supervisor.
- in the „Prüfungsamt“ the master thesis will be ‚stamped‘ and the student receives an assessment form to be handed over to the supervisor.
7. End of January: Public defensio
within the Master AG
(-> for completion of the master program in the 4.th semester: Defensio until end of October) Requirement: submission of the Master thesis
8. End of February: Assessment
(-> for completion of the master program in the 4.th semester: Assessment until end of November)
Topics
This is an overview of Master/Diploma thesis topics. If you are interested in one of them, please contact the supervisor of the respective topic.
Here you can download a style sheet for your thesis: style sheet 
| Topic |
Supervisor |
Available |
| Benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) | Ruth Breu |
yes |
| The Potential of Low Coding - An Experimental Approach | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Ontology-based Competence Management in Academic Education - State of the Art and Potential | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Learning Analytics Use Cases in Academic Education - State of the Art and Potential | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Programming Learning Platforms - State of the Art and Potential | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Programming Exercises as Learning Objects - A Meta Data Approach | Ruth Breu | yes |
| The uniqueness of Elon Musk and the like - A study on digital intrapreneurship in organizations | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Examining the Role of IT Identity on Information Systems Use - Analyzing Multi-national Survey Data | Andreas Eckhardt |
no |
| Ethical Design - Deriving Ethical Design Principles for Socio-Technical Systems | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Do they bite? A Literature Analysis on Spear Phishing | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Fake Product Reviews - Design and Impact on Users' Buying Decisions | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Living the New Normal - Theorizing about the Impact of Constant Connectivity on Individuals' Behavior in Virtual Work Settings | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| The Virtualization of Organizations - Studying Organizations' Transition to Complete Virtual Entitie | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Data Validation Framework for Machine Learning Pipelines | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Software Quality Assurance for AI Systems | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Requirements Engineering for Blockchain-Oriented Software | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Security Inventory for Software Development | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Engineering Trustworthy AI Systems | Michael Felderer | yes |
| An experiment on the effects of online review design on review behavior and review effort (should start in December 2020) | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Algorithmic control on microtask platforms | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Development of a microtask platform for experimental purposes | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Domain dependent algorithm aversion | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Alexa as a family member (interviews with families) | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Trust in code snippets on stack overflow | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Time pressure in online webshops | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| "Who should work late and for how long?": A review and evaluation of capacity planning models | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Emergency orders and order expediting with a focus on scheduling: Evaluation of existing models | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| The influence of lead times on the ordering behavior of human decision makers: an experimental study | Stefan Haeussler |
yes |
| Smart decision support tools in manufacturing: design, applications and influence on human decision making | Stefan Haeussler |
yes |
| Analytics in SpORts: How (Operations Research) nerds appreciate sports | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| How to do different rating distributions styles effect consumers | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| Measuring the relative impact of internal and imported online reputation with choice experiments | Alexander Kupfer |
no |
| Analyzing cultural differences in online reviews - a topic modelling approach | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| Analyzing sequence effects during the reviewing/rating process. An experimental study | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| Anonymity vs. Trust in Security Information and Knowledge Sharing | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Towards an Assessment Framework for Online Security Information Sources | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| How to measure the ROI of Cyber Security Investments | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| A Comprehensive Analysis of Security Information discussed on Online Forums | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Crowdsourcing Approaches used for Information Security | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| A typology of crowd workers and their resistance behavior, e.g. Uber, Mturk etc.. - a Q methodology study | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Social / normative control in gig platforms - a qualitative analysis (qualitative content analysis / interviews) | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Rewards & sanctions in crowd working platforms (analysis of various platforms) | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Complaints behavior in ridehailing business - an analysis of Uber drive forums (topic modeling, (https://uberpeople.net/forums/Complaints/ ) | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Rresistance to AC in ridehailing - quantitative pilot study | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Mining user requirements from app store reviews: the case of digital wellbeing tools | Ulrich Remus, Renata Santiago Walser |
no |
| Behavioral theories and digital wellbeing tools: a literature review | Ulrich Remus, Renata Santiago Walser |
no |