BISE Student

Business & Information Systems Engineering, vol. 64, pp. 701–706

Abstract

In today’s academic practice, at the end of most of the study programs worldwide students submit a thesis, which often disappears into a non-public university archive or desk drawer, never to be seen again. Many of these works are being carried out with great thoroughness and produce results of high practical and scientific value for other students, researchers, and practitioners. Looking back into the past, there are many examples of ideas from student theses that changed the world, such as Carl Friedrich Gauss’ research in 1799 on “A new proof of the theorem that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved...“, Alan Turing’s work in 1938 on “On Computable Numbers, With An Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”, or recently in 2001 Rebecca Mercuri with her work on “Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks and Balances”.

Authors 4

1. Ali Sunyaev corresponding

   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

2. Christof Weinhardt

   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Information Systems and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

3. Wil M. P. van der Aalst Aachen Chair of Process and Data Science

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Chair of Process and Data Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

4. Oliver Fast Hinz

   Goethe University Frankfurt

   Affiliation as printed

   Chair of Information Systems and Information Management, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany