The topics listed below correspond more to themes in which master theses can be realized, than to a detailed description of topics. Depending on the interest of the students, more theoretical or instead industry-related topics will be developed. Some of the proposed themes are more convenient for an internship, to be made before the master thesis. The themes proposed are preferably accessible m...

This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia’s coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories. The paper shows that just like research article repositories, voluntary ETD deposition results in repositories collecting only about 15% of the available theses, whereas man...

I am a third year PhD student in Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. My advisor is Prof. Todd Mowry. My research interests are in database systems, computer architecture, operating systems, and distributed systems. I have worked on several research projects for my PhD study at Carnegie Mellon University and for my undergraduate and master theses at Tsinghua University, Ch...

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...

I don’t think that there is a generically good way of doing a master thesis (nor of doing research in general). Research (like other creative activities) evolves in unpredictable ways, and each research project has its own story. I will tell a few such stories, and naturally I will rely on stories I know from the inside (or close to that). The only lesson that I can offer is maintaining an open...