Abschlussarbeiten
Masterarbeiten / Diplomarbeiten
1. Bis spätestens Ende Januar: Themenvergabe
Studenten können aus Liste auswählen oder ein ähnliches Thema vorschlagen (Themenliste wird vor Weihnachten online gestellt; Themenauswahl durch E-Mail an Betreuer (first come - first serve).
2. Bis spätestens Ende Februar:
Verfassen und Abgabe eines Thesis Proposal (5-10 Seiten) bei Betreuer (inkl. Motivation, Forschungsfrage, wesentliche Literatur, Forschungsmethode, erwartete Ergebnisse, Gliederung).
3. Ab März: Anmeldung Master Thesis
(Voraussetzung: alle Module positiv absolviert und mit Betreuer abgestimmter und finalisierter Thesis Proposal).
- Ausgefülltes Formular „Assessment of the compulsory module: Preparation of the Master’s Thesis” an das Prüfungsreferat übermitteln link.
- „Application for a Master‘s Thesis Topic“ aus LFU an Prüfungsamt (Formular
) - Anmeldung zur Master AG
4. Bis spätestens Ende September: Ausarbeitung der Masterarbeit mit Feedback
5. Bis spätestens Ende November: Finalisierung der Masterarbeit
6. Bis spätestens Ende Dezember: Abgabe der Masterarbeit
(-> Für Abschluss des Masterprogramms im 4. Semester: Abgabe der Masterarbeit bis spätestens Ende September)
- Umfang der Masterarbeit: mind. 50 inhaltliche Seiten
Formatempfehlungen:
Word Formatvorlage
Latex Formatvorlage - Abgabe: 2 hart gebundene Exemplare im Prüfungsamt abgeben sowie elektronisch (z.B. word, pdf, latech) per USB-Stick oder durch Link auf ein Archiv) im Institutssekretariat abgeben. Zusätzlich per E-Mail an den Betreuer
- im Prüfungsamt werden die Masterarbeiten abgestempelt und der Studierende erhält ein Formular für die Beurteilung der Masterarbeit – an den Betreuer
7. Bis spätestens Ende Januar: Öffentliche Verteidigung
im Rahmen der Master AG
(-> Für Abschluss des Masterprogramms im 4. Semester: Verteidigung bis spätestens Ende Oktober)
Voraussetzung: Abgabe der Masterarbeit
8. Bis spätestens Ende Februar: Beurteilung.
(-> Für Abschluss des Masterprogramms im 4. Semester: Beurteilung bis Ende November)
Themenbereiche und ausgeschriebene Abschlussarbeiten
Im Folgenden wird ein Überblick über offene Abschlussarbeiten gegeben. Diese können jeweils entweder als Diplom- oder Masterarbeit zugewiesen werden. Bei Interesse oder um genauere Informationen zu den jeweiligen Arbeiten zu erhalten, wenden Sie sich bitte an den zuständigen Betreuer.
Eine Formatvorlage für die Arbeiten kann hier heruntergeladen werden: Formatvorlage 
| Thema |
Betreuer |
Verfügbar |
| Designing and evaluating screening questions for online surveys of cryptocurrency users | Svetlana Abramova | yes |
| Ethical Design - Deriving Ethical Design Principles for Socio-Technical Systems. |
Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Virtualisierung von Organisationen, z. B. Decentralized Autonomous Orgnaizations auf Blockchain-Basis. | Andreas Eckhardt |
no |
| Dark Patterns bei der Gestaltung von User Interfaces. | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Collective Security Awareness - Wie man die Gesellschaft vor den Gefahren von Cyber-Angriffen schulen kann. | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Spear Phishing in Social Media. | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Eyetracking und Machine Learning. | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Shadow IT Networks in Reddit. | Andreas Eckhardt | no |
| Towards a student lifecycle service maturity model. |
Ruth Breu | yes |
| Towards a competence-based classification of programming skills. |
Ruth Breu | yes |
| A Taxonomy of Software Test Automation Approaches: Bringing order to the test automation tools and methods jungle |
Michael Felderer | no |
| Empirical analysis of data-related bugs in data-driven software products. |
Michael Felderer | no |
| AI quality assurance with simulators and digital twins: Using virtual instead of real environments for QA. |
Michael Felderer | yes |
| Visual analytics approaches for runtime and AI quality assurance: How to detect issues with visual approaches. |
Michael Felderer | no |
|
Process Mining for Test Case Generation: Automate the test case generation for microservices/AI via process mining. |
Michael Felderer |
yes |
|
Quality Models für Microservice-Based Systems: How to identify the quality level of Microservices. |
Michael Felderer |
no |
| Fault detection mechanisms for AI models: Faulty AI – which fault types exist and how to detect them. |
Michael Felderer | no |
| Thesis in Cooperation with the SAP HANA Software Quality Assurance Department. |
Michael Felderer | no |
| Susceptibility to fake news on smartphones (Eye-tracking study; student team of 2 with the other eye-tracking topic). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| The design of warnings to avoid incorrect product configurations. | Kathrin Figl | no |
| Cognitive elaboration and message strength of fake news. | Kathrin Figl | no |
| Cognitive depletion in online product configuration. | Kathrin Figl | no |
| Time pressure in online web shops (student team of 2 with the other web shop topic). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Visual attention to social media posts on smartphones (Eye-tracking study; student team of 2 with the other eye-tracking topic). | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Algorithmic management on crowd platforms: Coherence for Rewards and Penalties. | Kathrin Figl | yes |
| Online Reviews in online web shops (student team of 2 with the other web shop topic). | yes | |
| Chronicle 2050: Automatic extraction of expected events from web. | Adam Jatowt | yes |
| Automatic generation of useful hints using Wikipedia to help users find answers to natural language questions. | Adam Jatowt | yes |
| Building dataset of effective hints for supporting human question answering using crowdsourcing. | Adam Jatowt | yes |
| Using large language models pre-trained on news content from different time periods for extracting knowledge about important or surprising differences over time. | Adam Jatowt | yes |
| Creating German FinBERT: large-scale language model trained on German financial news. | Adam Jatowt | yes |
| Does the number of “not recommend reviews” on Yelp affect the overall review score? | Alexander Kupfer | yes |
| Literature review on information overload in the context of online reviews. | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| How do devices differences affect reviewing behavior on TripAdvisor? | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| Do conversational agents in recommender systems affect consumer trust and purchase intention? | Alexander Kupfer | no |
| "Who should work late and for how long?": A review and evaluation of capacity planning models. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Parameterization of a multi-echelon inventory system: A simulation based optimization approach. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Analytics in SpORts: How (Operations Research) nerds appreciate sports. | Stefan Haeussler |
yes |
| Intelligent products: Using flow time forecast for dynamic scheduling – a simulation study. | Stefan Haeussler |
yes |
| "Allocation matters": Design and developement of an applicable optimization tool for scheduling people top tasks. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Fine Planning in Production Processes: A practical thesis in cooperation with a Tyrolean manufacturing company. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| User Experience eines webbasierten Patientenportals bewerten. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Automatisierte Klassifikation von klinischen Dokumenten. | Stefan Haeussler | yes |
| Literature Review on capcitated Supply Chains. | Quirin Ilmer | yes |
| Conversational Systems using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (practice work). | Quirin Ilmer | yes |
| Comparison of quantity-based and order-based order release models. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Case-based reasoning in rescheduling: A review of the literature. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Column Generation (CG) in production scheduling: A literature survey. | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Redesign of spare parts/accessoires packing: A practical thesis in cooperation with a Tyrolean manufacturing company (practice work). | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| How to integrate rule-based order release into mid-term planning in make-to-stock systems? | Hubert Missbauer | yes |
| Machine-learning to assist crowd workers in task completion – a quantitative study on machine-learning-based advice taking in a crowdsourced task. | Ulrich Remus Frederik Wiedmann |
yes |
| Mitigating smartphone overuse with digital wellbeing apps – a qualitative study. | Ulrich Remus | no |
| Digital Wellbeing apps – a qualitative study on usage behavior. | Ulrich Remus Renata Santiago Walser |
no |
| Inside the food delivery industry: a supplier’s perspective on control. | Ulrich Remus Matthias Weber |
no |
| Technology-Mediated Control in Gig Work: Analysis of a Food Delivery Platform. | Ulrich Remus Matthias Weber |
no |
| Evolution of Control at Uber/or similar – A historical perspective. | Ulrich Remus Matthias Weber |
no |
| Literature Review: Resistance to change/control and domination in the work place – how do workers resist to organizational changes/controls. | Ulrich Remus Matthias Weber |
no |
| A sucess model for automated programming assessement systems. | Clemens Sauerwein | yes |
| An empirical analysis of the use and net benefits of threat intelligence sharing platforms. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| An empirical investigation of content, system and service quality metrics for the evalutation of threat intelligence sharing platforms. | Clemens Sauerwein | yes |
| Exploring the drivers of corporate information security risk-taking. | Clemens Sauerwein | no |
| Design and Development of a Data Warehouse for Cyber Threat Intelligence. | Clemens Sauerwein | yes |
| Deep Learning with Ontologies: How can Natural Language Processing Tasks Benefit from Ontologies? | Clemens Sauerwein Andrea Mussmann |
no |
| Training Data Augmentation for Natural Language Processing: Improving Deep Learning Models for Requirements Engineering. | Clemens Sauerwein Andrea Mussmann |
no |
| Analyzing the performance of digital platform strategies using company filings. | Maximilian Schreieck | yes |
| Adoption of cloud platforms among independent software vendors. | Maximilian Schreieck | yes |
| Digital platform strategies of incumbent companies - The interplay of platform governance and traditional governance. | Maximilian Schreieck | yes |
| Linked Building Data and departmentalization of construction processes and management tasks. | Philipp Zech | no |
| Digital Twins of Buildings. | Philipp Zech | no |
| BIM and Industry 4.0 for the integration of sensors with as-built infrastructure assets. | Philipp Zech | no |
| openBIM - State-of-the-art and challenges. | Philipp Zech | no |