BSc Thesis

These web pages gives you access to a number of proposals for theses in the DIS group.

The DIS group puts a strong emphasis on the applications of the database theory. All our internships are very application oriented, and must verify the investgated methods on both synthetic (a must) and real world datast (whenever possible). We also encourage the students to formalize their experimental findings and provide analytical results.

You are also welcome to suggest additional topics that fall within the general area of databases. The Database group is conducting research in the following areas:

Temporal Databases: Michael H. Boehlen, Romans Kasperovics
Visual Data Mining: Arturas Mazeika, Michael H. Boehlen, Andrej Taliun
Approximate string and tree matching: Nikolaus Augsten, Johann Gamper
Approximate string selectivity: Arturas Mazeika
OLAP, Data Warehousing, Data Mining: Arturas Mazeika, Michael H. Boehlen
Web ontologies, e-goverment: Johann Gamper, Nikolaus Augsten
Temporal OLAP, temporal multidimensional databases: Igor Timko
Probabilistic OLAP, probabilistic multidimensional databases: Igor Timko
Moving objects databases: Igor Timko

For other theses in the database area please contact Michael H. Boehlen.

Proposals

Mobile Traffic Information System (I. Timko, J. Gamper ) NEW!
The Mobile Traffic Information System (MTI system) is used for informing tourists and citizens of Bolzano about traffic situation. The backbone of the system is the Database Server that receives streaming data about car counts produced by sensors installed in different points of the Bolzano road network. The goal of this thesis is to provide mobile user access to the Database Server. This thesis is part of the "Bolzano: Everywhere in 10 Minutes" (BZ10M) project (see the project description), which means that the student(s) will actively collaborate with the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano.
Database Support for Traffic Flow Simulators (I. Timko, ) NEW!
SUMO is a tool for performing microscopic traffic flow simulations. Currently, SUMO only supports XML as standard input and output format. This thesis shall evaluate which solutions for transforming XML-base output into other formats exist. The solution should add the possibility to write simulation results directly into a database, what, in addition, requires the possibility to convert between different representations of the written data, in means of different output formats. This thesis is part of the "Bolzano: Everywhere in 10 Minutes" (BZ10M) project (see the project description). The student will actively collaborate with the developers of SUMO, German Aerospace Center.
Efficient Implementation of the TMDA Operator (J. Gamper)
TMDA is an expressive aggregation operator for temporal database systems, which generalizes a variety of previously proposed aggregation operators. The aim of this thesis is to work on an efficient implementation for this operator.