Topic Selection

The guidelines below are intended to provide assistance in writing your thesis at our department and assume that you have already been assigned a topic.

If you do not have a topic yet, follow this page to contact us:

Bachelor-/Master theses

General Information

General notes on final theses:

• The thesis can be written in German or English
• There is no prescribed number of pages (usually the number of pages is between 50-100 pages)
• The standard citation rules must be observed (see right)
• The work should be made in Latex using the corresponding template (see right)

Organizational Information

For organizational formalities and regulations, please refer to the websites of the respective institutes and your examination regulations.

The following links lead to the corresponding pages:

• Bachelor Mathematics
• Bachelor Business-Mathematics
• Bachelor Business Computer Science
• Master Mathematics
• Master Business Mathematics
• Master Information Systems
• Master Computer Science

Structure of the Thesis

The structure of the thesis should be based on the following pattern:

1. Introduction and problem description
2. Related work
3. Main section
   • Design process
   • Implementation
   • Solving of the problem
4. Evaluation
5. Conclusion and future work

To write the thesis should use the latex template (see the right side of this website).

Process of Thesis Writing

Throughout the editing period, we provide a support service. This includes meetings to discuss the current progress of the work and to get our feedback. To make such meetings as effective as possible, you should come to them as prepared as possible.

The thesis including its preparation has to follow the guidelines for good scientific practice and (DFG-) Open Science.

The entire thesis process goes through several steps:

• Problem description: First of all, the actual research problem must be understood and formulated.
• Task abstraction: Subsequently, concrete tasks are derived from the problem definition, which are to be processed/solved in the work.
• Literature research: Based on the problem description and the tasks, suitable literature is searched for and analyzed.
• Design sketches: Sketching a wide variety of ideas for solving the "problem" that have emerged in the course of addressing the issue and researching the literature.
• Design decision: A design is selected from the sketches to be implemented.
• Implementation of the design idea.
• Evaluation: Assessment of the own result (often in comparison to state-of-the-art solutions).
• Finish writing the thesis in compliance with standard citation rules (see right).

Throughout the period, it is helpful to document as much as possible, as over such a long period of time some things may be forgotten that could become relevant again later. Possible documentation includes:

• Meeting protocols
• Literature summaries
• Commenting the program code
• Capturing all (design) ideas