Master Thesis WT 24/25
For the upcoming semester, the Chairs of Operations Management, Management Science and Data-Driven Decision Support organize access to Master thesis topics together. Hence, in order to apply for a Master thesis topic, it is mandatory to hand in the following form to : Application form Master thesis.
Please hand in the application form together with a current transcript of records.
Application deadline for a thesis to start at the beginning of the winter term 2024/2025: 1st September 2024
Note that we expect you to have taken a Scientific Seminar or a Scientific Project at one of our chairs. After you application has been accepted, we negotiate a topic with you. Topics can come from two sources:
- We propose topics before the application deadline (Please indicate if you are interested in one of these in your application).
- You propose a topic within an exposé of 1 to 2 pages which is related to our research and the master classes offered by our chairs
Potential Topics Winter Term 2024/2025 for the Chair of Operations Management:
- A comparison of group scheduling with flow shop
- Constraint programming for capacitated scheduling problems in greenhouses
- Missing operations in flow shop scheduling
- The impact of initialization methods for metaheuristics
- Robust production planning in the case of uncertainty
- Fairness in Personnel Scheduling
- Consistency requirement in crew planning
- Optimizing the configuration of photovoltaic generators
- Game-theoretical analysis of dual-channel retailing systems
- Hub location and network design
- Prevention of counterfeiting in dual-channel retailing systems – a game-theoretic analysis
- The hub location problem with mixed fleets
Potential Topics Winter Term 2024/2025 for the Chair of Management Science: