Master Thesis ST 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 summer term 2025: 1st March 2025
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 Summer Term 2025 for the Chair of Operations Management:
- Literature Review on Industry 5.0 in Manufacturing Operations
- Optimization of EV Charging Stations
- Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for Sustainable Logistics
- Literature Review on Quantum-Inspired Metaheuristics for Optimization Problems
- Advanced Metaheuristic Method for Decision-Making in a Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Environment
- Literature Review on Metaheuristics in Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling
- Simulated Annealing in Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling
- Hybrid genetic algorithms for minimizing makespan in dynamic job shop scheduling problems
- Flow shop group scheduling with and without group technology assumption
- Constraint programming for capacitated scheduling problems in greenhouses
- Robust production planning in the case of uncertainty
- Consistency requirements in railway crew planning
- Optimization for ATM cash replenishment
- Fairness aspects in personnel scheduling
- Literature review on optimization of food distribution networks for equity and effectiveness
- Literature review on urban public transportation network optimization
Potential Topics Summer term 2025 for the Chair of Management Science: