THESIS TOPICS FOR SPRING 2013 Version 2: 11/January/2013

Take a look through these topics and choose one that interests you. Since Version 11 of this document, I have obtained additional suggestions for topics and topic areas from the supervisors. I have marked these additional topics and topic areas as NEW in this document. If you see a topic that interests you, please email the supervisor in the first instance. It may be the case that the supervisor already has the maximum number of students to supervise, in which case you will have to pick another thesis topic with a different supervisor. Once you have got the supervisor to agree to take you on, please inform be by email. My email address is Peter.Thanisch (at) sis.uta.fi. The information which I need from you is Your name, your email address, your student number, your degree course, the title of the thesis topic and the name of the supervisor. Please note that in the case of some of the supervisors, you must suggest a thesis topic in the area of the supervisors interest. If you have your own thesis topic and you do not yet have a supervisor, please email me and provide a brief description of the project. I shall attempt to identify an appropriate supervisor. Finally, a word of warning! These thesis topics were originally written in Finnish. I used Google Translate to obtain an English version of the list. So some of the topics have a strange wording. Hopefully, though, you will be able to get a sense of what the supervisor has in mind. Topic: Machine Learning Seen and data mining related issues. Also suitable for programming-related topics. Suggest your own topic and discuss with Jorma Laurikkala to establish the suitability of the course. Supervisor: Jorma Laurikkala Topic: Java application security complex by Supervisor: Jorma Laurikkala

Topic: databases, or data mining-related topics You can suggest databases or data mining, and discuss topics related to Kati Iltasen with its suitability study for the course. Instructor: Kati Iltanen Topic: Sequence pattern recognition Link Supervisor: Kati Iltanen Topic: Density-based clustering Linkki1 Linkki2 Supervisor: Kati Iltanen Topic: World Wide Web contains structured information processing Linkki1 Linkki2 Linkki3 Supervisor: Kati Iltanen Topic: Genetic analysis of interactions between the machine learning methods Link Supervisor: Kati Iltanen Topic: Bloom filter (probalistinen a data structure that allows you to explore, is included in the item to a specific set) Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Cuckoo hash (a fresh, fast in practice observed spreading method) Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Distributed hash table (DHT, may be familiar to some as one example, many Bittorrent program feature) Linkki1 Linkki2 Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Consumer confidence in electronic trading on the link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Epmetriset similarity measures (related to each other with similar data items in the search, etc.) Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Subject: Decision Technologies software architecture selection Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr

Topic: pictures and videos automatic analysis (for example, whether the picture / video tampered with afterwards?) Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: XML data clustering

Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr

Topic: Palm detection (based on the palm of the hand after biometric authentication) Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Improving information retrieval with automatic query expansion Link Supervisor: Heikki Hyyr Topic: Co-design Description: Examine, who must participate in the planning process. Looking at the articles in product design in a scientific journal (eg Codesign) and Information Systems Journal (eg, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems). Linkki1 Linkki2 Supervisor: Tarja Tiainen NEW Topic areas: Women and IT, Virtual reality, IT in product design Supervisor: Tarja Tiainen

Topic: Educational technology-related topics You can suggest teaching technology-related topics, and discuss them with Pentti Hietala to establish their suitability for the course. Instructor: Pentti Hietala Topic: Requirement specification theoretical background in information systems vs. software engineering issues to be addressed information system design and software engineering vaatimustenhallinyamallien differences and commonalities (eg terms. Requirements Requirements elicitation and engineering). Instructor: Information Systems Team (Marko Mkip, Timo Ingalsuo and Pasi Paunu)

Topic: Successful information systems description of information systems development, deployment, and you have a lot of problems. Therefore, we can target a positive research and try to learn from their successes. If you know of any successful information system project, then you should ask whether the success of the system described in a third country. We can all learn something from it. A successful example is the community more meaningful the research, because a successful description of the system is, in principle exacerbate the community's reputation. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: Driving down the old system and the new system up driving in modern societies can be several generations, information systems, information systems technology in mind. An elderly community, for example, more than 100 years old, has been able to see some particular technology increases and decreases several times. Therefore, there will be situations where legacy systems are shut down and new systems are run yls.Ilmeisesti is so that the down / up-runs of combinations is becoming a project type that is going to increase. If you have a known entity, which has successfully been carried out in the old system and driving down to the new system to ramp up the project, so this could get interesting research question. If you do know of such a project through exports, so you should always be discussed. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: Descriptions of the various systems of the Central Is one big one (central) system and the ERP system is formed by an impossible idea? Is Master Data-Talk, an old idea with a new name? Master Data systems, the required data is input only once. We need examples of successful Master Data systems, and then the study should show Master Data-Talk as a new subspecies of fads. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila

Topic: Organizational culture and requirements management In my humble (Rannila 2003) research I study of organizational culture, but in retrospect I figured some kind of lightweight method of necessity. "Ns Ville

traditional object-Days", a performer said that the community values need to figure out well before any arrangements are created throughout the community. Now, could the software production and / or interested in the management of the requirements to do a favor (information science people) rummage in particular, the requirements of management and organizational culture contact. Application areas would be called. tailor-made systems in which the software will be done exactly according to the requirements of the organization. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: IT decentralization, centralization and standardization problems in competitive public procurement tendering Oen considered mielipidekirjoituksissani some problems. I have thought more than once that the hash-Centering and Standard / Non-standard combinations are possible to resolve false or inappropriate ways, depending on the case. (It would not be legal treatise, but, being learned, etc. are relatively light in this study.) As the IT support to diversify or concentrate? As the information technology should standardize or leave standardoimatta? Hashing + standard? Centering + standard? + Hash-standardized?Centering +-standardized? Links Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: ERP systems (equivalent) and / or CRM systems (equivalent to) long-term use gradually getting experience of ERP systems and CRM systems for long-term use. Now might investigate ERP systems and CRM systems, long-term use is really meant. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: A special job requirements and the previously developed system task to make 1 Images / presenting a work in brief 2 Images / presenting a particular job function exactly 3 Images / presenting general community where job done 4 Image / presentation and information system for a particular job, 5 Compare the requirements of a particular task, and used in relation to the implementation of information system requirements. 6 Conclusions: how a certain task, the requirements and the implementation of information system for real face? Links Supervisor: Jukka Rannila

Topic: antitrust cases cases re-evaluation of the various aspects of companies have made proposals in response to a restriction of competition problems that have been vahtinut in particular the European Union Commission's Competition Directorate General. It is interesting that in many cases the restriction on competition suspects the company is strongly observed / reported to act right and unrestricted competition under but it is, however, ended up / agreed to a series of measures ("Commitments") to promote competition. Now these agreed measures ("Commitments") to consider a purely data-processing point of view, and leave the legal issues have been neglected. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila

Topic: Different feature licenses autumn of 2012 I pulled through one of the student with the following categories of the subject study: examine the most widely used open source software licenses, in particular, consider the open license provisions on maintenance now could this line of research will continue in different activities: * Document Licenses - open and closed * databases licenses - an open and closed * hardware licenses - open and closed * search, add, delete and change - Licenses - open and closed. Link Supervisor: Jukka Rannila Topic: For political information systems - an example of the information system, which will never reach a steady-state (non-equilibrium) The political systems may find that the policy in time due to the nature of new kinds of information systems being developed all the time. Elections based on political systems personnel turnover rate is relatively rapid. This is why we call this the political systems in emerging and disintegrating in the information systems (fluctuation). What should be the time to change the core information system? Once the subsystems are continuously removed and added to, as the core of the system would be able to withstand these changes. > Br> Is the creation of a new class of systems, that is, in the ever-expanding systems? In this case, make the

transition to traditional systems (legacy system) negative thinking to think of those tietoarkistoina (information archives). Which would be the new job descriptions / roles of people constantly changing in the information systems and what kind of media combinations is then constructed? Links Supervisor: Jukka Rannila

Topic: Duplicate Detection. Duplicate detection (also known as "entity matching" or "record linkage") is one of the most important problems in data quality in commercial data warehouses. Typically, problems arise when data from multiple sources is integrated. The different source systems will have different ways of recording the same information, such as customer names, addresses, product names, etc. The same problem can also arise due to data quality problems associated with data entry. The challenge is to effectively and efficiently identify pairs of records that represent the same real world entity. Researchers have developed and described a variety of methods to measure the similarity of records and/or to reduce the number of required comparisons. DuplicateDetectionLink Supervisor: Peter Thanisch

Topic: Database refactoring. In incremental development methodologies, such as Agile, the modelling and design of database system occurs in the same time-boxed increments as all other aspects of the project. In this topic, you will investigate database refactoring methods which keep the database design aligned with the project. Link1 Supervisor: Peter Thanisch

Topic: Energy-efficient computing. It used to be thought that the way to make a computation more energy efficient was to make it execute faster. There is a growing realisation that this is not always the case. This topic investigates classes of computation where different strategies are required in order to achieve energy efficiency. Link1 Supervisor: Peter Thanisch

NEW Topic areas:

software projects, project management, algorithmics (especially graph theory or optimization) or informatics education in primary and secondary schools. Supervisor: Timo Poranen

NEW Topic areas: Machine learning; data mining

Supervisor: Jorma Laurikkala