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 
| Thema |
Betreuer |
Verfügbar |
| Towards a Data Quality Taxonomy for Shared Cyber Threat Intelligence. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Analysis of the Patching Behavior of Market-leading Software Vendors. | Clemens Sauerwein | yes |
| Analysis of the Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Practice. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Assessing the Quality and Accuracy of Shared Cyber Security Information. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Plaforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Software Vendors and Research Perspectives. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Towards a Knowledge Graph for Representing Cyber Threat Intelligence. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| A Comprehensive Analysis of Student's Contributions to Software Projects. | Clemens Sauerwein | yes |
| Digital workspaces - digitizing organizational knowledge creation. | Isabella Seeber | no |
| Conversational agents: worker empowerment or organizational control mechanism. | Isabella Seeber | no |
| Conversational agents at the front-end of innovation. | Isabella Seeber | no |
| Digital workspaces and (new) leadership styles. | Isabella Seeber | no |
| Cognitive effective label layout for business process models/process mining (analyzing existing eye-tracking data). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Human-data interaction in data and/or process analytics. | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Alexa as a family member (Interview Study). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Thinking fast and thinking slow on digital devices. | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| The effect of defaults and positioning on users’ privacy settings (Eye-tracking Study). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Fake news on social media (Eye-tracking Study). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Digital nudging with defaults and positioning effects in product configuration (Eye-tracking Study). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| How does review staging (the "foot in the door" technique, e.g., asking for a single click review ("How many stars?") while hiding a multi-page survey with questions behind the click) influence review behavior? | Kathrin Figl, Steffen Zimmermann |
yes |
| How do reciprocal (two-sided) reviews influence review behavior? | Kathrin Figl, Steffen Zimmermann | yes |
| How do fake reviews (or the labeling of fake reviews) influence review behavior? | Kathrin Figl, Steffen Zimmermann | yes |
| How do negative/positive prior reviews influence review behavior? | Kathrin Figl, Steffen Zimmermann | yes |
| Skill gaps and onboarding in software and security engineering. | Michael Felderer | yes |
| A Risk Model for Data Providers. | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Verification of Regulatory Requirements. | Michael Felderer | no |
| Blockchain Technology and Software Engineering. | Michael Felderer | no |
| Diversity in software engineering. | Michael Felderer | yes |
| Bots and Software Quality Engineering. | Michael Felderer | no |
| https://dbis-informatik.uibk.ac.at/theses | Michael Tschuggnall | yes |
| Column Generation (CG) in production scheduling - literature survey and numerical example. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Cyclic scheduling in two-stage production – modeling and (near) exact solution by MILP solvers. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Block Planning and its integration into multi-stage production. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Integrated scheduling of continuous casting and hot rolling in the steel-making industry: The iterative adjustment approach. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Bid skewing in the construction industry: Equilibrium solution between bidder and client. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Resource-constrained project scheduling: Modeling approaches and their practical applicability. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Comparison of quantity-based and order-based order release models. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Market Analysis - Software Solutions for the Building Trade , in collaboratin with Würth IT GmbH (Würth-Hochenburger). | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Participation of the Building Trade in BIM-centric workflows, in collaboration with Würth IT GmbH (Würth-Hochenburger). | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Integrating the Aspect of Sustainability in Methods of SW Product Design and Development. | Ruth Breu | yes |
| EAM Patterns within the Management of IT-Infrastructures of Universities. | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Assessing University Services for (Prospective) Students – A Comparative Study. | Ruth Breu | yes |
| Parameterization of a multi-echelon inventory system: A simulation based optimization approach. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| How to measure pathological behavior in supply chains and production systems - measuring the bullwhip effect and beyond. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Applying smart AI decision support tools to the order entry level. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Reinforcement learning for short term capacity planning | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Identifying factors that influence online reviewing effort: A literature review. | Steffen Zimmermann | no |
| Do fake reviews moderate reviewing effort? | Steffen Zimmermann | yes |
| Are all reviewers the same? A classification of reviewer types. | Steffen Zimmermann | yes |
| Does a relative review distribution increase perceived helpfulness of online review systems? | Steffen Zimmermann | no |
| The effect of cloud services on firm productivity. A literature review. | Steffen Zimmermann | no |
| Control interactions and its consequences - a content anaylsis of Uber driver forums. | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Social / normative control in gig platforms - a sentiment anlysis of forums. | Ulrich Remus | no |
| A typology of gig workers - a Q methodology study. | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Development of an instrument to measure control interactions in the gig economy. | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Carrot & stick control in the gig economy - a survey-based study. | Ulrich Remus | no |