Theses/ Abschlussarbeiten

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Alle Themen können, sofern nicht explizit anders angegeben, im Rahmen einer Bachelorarbeit, Projektarbeit oder Masterarbeit bearbeitet werden.

Der Umfang wird entsprechend angepasst. Die genaue Aufgabenstellung kann in der Regel an Vorlieben und Vorwissen der Interessenten angepasst werden. Es können auch gerne eigene Ideen vorgeschlagen werden. Ansprechpartnerin ist, sofern nicht anders angegeben Frau Prof. Dr. Birgitta König-Ries.External link Die hier aufgeführten Themen sind Beispiele – sehr wahrscheinlich gibt es weitere mögliche Themen: Wenn Sie Interesse haben, in einem unserer Forschungsprojekte mitzuarbeiten – setzen Sie sich einfach mit uns in Verbindung!

   
Abschlussarbeiten an der Heinz-Nixdorf-Professur

Vorbemerkung

In unseren Projekten gibt es immer etwas zu tun und wir freuen uns über Mitarbeit von Studierenden im Rahmen von Haus-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten.
Informationen darüber, an welchen Projekten wir aktuell arbeiten, finden Sie auf unserer [Webseite] (https://www.fmi.uni-jena.de/en/10967/active-projects).

Methodisch interessieren uns Ansätze aus dem Semantic Web (z.B. Wissensgraphen und Ontologien). In aktuellen Arbeiten verbinden wir diese häufig mit maschinellem Lernen z.B. LLMs.
Daneben spielt Softwareentwicklung insbesondere zur Unterstützung des Forschungsdatenmanagements eine große Rolle.

Ihr Weg zur Abschlussarbeit bei uns

Sie suchen eine Abschlussarbeit und sind prinzipiell an unseren Themen interessiert? Dann schicken Sie bitte eine Mail an birgitta.koenig-ries@uni-jena.de und beschreiben Sie kurz:

  • Welches Vorwissen bringen Sie mit?
  • An welchen Fragestellungen sind Sie besonders interessiert? In welchen unserer Projekte würden Sie gerne mitarbeiten? Informationen zu den Projekten finden Sie auf unserer Webseite.
  • Sollte der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit eher bei der Konzeption oder auf der Implementierung liegen?
  • Wann wollen Sie mit der Arbeit beginnen?

Wir besprechen dann in der Gruppe, welche Themen wir Ihnen vorschlagen können und melden uns wieder bei Ihnen. Wenn Sie eines der Themen anspricht, vereinbaren wir einen Termin, um Details zu besprechen und die Fragestellung zu konkretisieren.

Externe Abschlussarbeiten

Uns erreichen häufig Anfragen zu externen Abschlussarbeiten. Im Prinzip betreuen wir auch solche Arbeiten. Grundvoraussetzungen dafür sind:

  • Wir haben die notwendige Expertise um die Arbeit sinnvoll zu betreuen.
  • Wir haben ausreichend Zeit die Arbeit zu begleiten. Das hängt z.B. davon ab, wieviele Abschlussarbeiten gerade schon in der Arbeitsgruppe betreut werden und wie nah das Thema an Fragestellungen ist, mit denen wir uns in anderem Kontext ebenfalls beschäftigen.
  • Wir verständigen uns gemeinsam auf ein Thema, das den Ansprüchen an eine Abschlussarbeit genügt. (Das ist bei den vorbereiteten Themenvorschlägen von Firmen mitunter nicht der Fall.)
 Theses at the Heinz-Nixdorf Chair

Preliminary Note

In our projects, there is always something to do, and we welcome the collaboration of students for their term papers, bachelor’s theses, and master’s theses.
Information about the projects we are currently working on can be found on our website.

Methodologically, we are interested in approaches from the Semantic Web (e.g., knowledge graphs and ontologies). In current work, we often combine these with machine learning, such as LLMs.
In addition, software development, particularly to support research data management, plays an important role.

Your Path to a Thesis with Us

Are you looking for a thesis and are generally interested in our topics? Then please send an email to birgitta.koenig-ries@uni-jena.de and briefly describe:

  • What prior knowledge do you bring with you?
  • What questions are you particularly interested in? Which of our projects would you like to work on? You can find information about the projects on our website.
  • Should the focus of the thesis be more on design or implementation?
  • When would you like to start the work?
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We will then discuss within the group which topics we can suggest to you and get back to you. If one of the topics interests you, we will schedule an appointment to discuss the details and refine the research question.

External Theses

We often receive inquiries for external theses. In principle, we also supervise such theses. The basic requirements for this are:

  • We have the necessary expertise to supervise the thesis meaningfully.
  • We have enough time to support the thesis. This depends, for example, on how many theses are already being supervised in the group and how closely the topic is related to issues we are also dealing with in other contexts.
  • We mutually agree on a topic that meets the requirements of a thesis. (This is sometimes not the case with proposed topics from companies.)

 

  • Knowledge Graph Visualization

    Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are widely regarded as one of the most promising ways to manage and link information in the age of Big Data. Large-scale knowledge graph visualizations are one of the critical challenges in this domain. A well-designed interactive visualization system can facilitate users’ understanding and consumption of the information

    This thesis research would be a part of the iKNOW project, which already its web application has been developed. In the iKNOW project, for the given tabular datasets the respective Knowledge Graph will be built. So, in this thesis research, we aim to provide an interactive visualization for the Knowledge Graphs. The visualization technique and the prototype can be evaluated with the help of the project’s partners in the biodiversity domain.

     

    What are the tasks?

    • An interactive graph-based visualization to facilitate users’ browsing of the generated Knowledge Graph.

    This task can be divided into the following sub-tasks:

    • Analysis of the needs and requirements of the KG-visualization
    • Analyzing the existing KG-visualization and find the best appropriate visualization technique for the iKNOW project
    • Adapt (re-design) and customize the selected technique for the project
    • Develop the prototype
    • Embedding the prototype in the current portal of iKNOW
    • User evaluation

     

    What do we offer?

    • A nice working environment
    • An interdisciplinary and international team
  • Question-Answer Modul for BEXIS 2

    BEXIS [vers.] is a free and open source software supporting researchers in managing their data throughout the entire data life cycle. BEXIS [.] has a lot of core data management features supporting the FAIR data principles. Beside data management features additional functionalities could enhance the system usage. Some modulesExternal link with additional components are already developed.

    Many scientific projects are requested to provide their insights to the general public. The demand for information can be very immense for some projects and differ from simple general project information to the provision of simple-language practice-oriented knowledge. However, a way of getting in contact and to communicate are interactive communication tools. There exists different possibilities of such tools e.g. using concepts of a forum, a chat, or a question-and-answer system.

    The task is to develop and implement a concept of a question-answer(-comment) system in BEXIS[].

  • Stars above Horizon (Website for Cellphone App, Citizen Science)

     The task is simply summarized:

    Develope a cellphone app that displays a star chart. The user shall touch on a star when (s)he sees the star. In the very moment, (i) the time is saved, (ii) the geo. position of the observer and the (iii) and an identifier of the star (number in star catalogue). The user shall have the option to provid information on the quality of her/his eyes and whether or not (s)he is a trained observer. The app shall also query data from the closest weather station.

    Requirements:

    • willing to learn
    • there is an existing app that should be developed further
      • written in python 
      • using FLUTTER framework

    Task option 1: improve version that is available in AppStore and PlayStore

    Task option 2: web development for evaluating the data (website to access and widget to autmatically display the data in the base)

    Use cases:

    1. “green research”: if many people all over the world use the app, the obtained data shall allow conclusions on the climatic change and weather-related variability of the transparency of the atmosphere, e.g.:
      1. during covid-lockdown in 2020, the news reported that the Himalaya mountains have been visible again in India (which had not been the case since decades before)
      2. there had been military studies in the 1940s (with rather small test samples) that showed some effects of humidity on twilight visibility – but astronomy requires broader and more detailled knowledge. A call for participation of hobby astronomers from Vienna in the 1980s suffered from low response. Modern media and cellphones could serve very well to overcome those day’s constrains and make it easier for people to participate.
    2. “medical/ biological research: ophtalmology knows that there are differences between the eyes of humans from Asia and Europe (because on different pressure on the eye ball) but apart from myoptic epidemic in China and Japan it is poorly known how these biological differences effect vision – in particular night vision.