The Scope of Collaboration

The scope of collaboration includes simple student projects, thesis projects, consulting mandates and externally financed research projects.

• Student Projects: These are projects that are offered within the curriculum of our normal study program. The type of practical contribution (limited tasks from the domains of OLAP, data warehousing, data mining, etc.) is up to the student, however empirical methods are encouraged. The students orgnaize themselves in teams and use project management in order to yield  a desirable outcome
• Thesis projects: these projects encourage a cooperation between a student and a partner company with regrad to a pratical topic that also involves a theoretical contribution to the science perspective of business informatics. The topic is often times motivated by the company and developed by both partners to contain a pratical and a theoretical part.
• Consulting mandates: The research team takes on consulting jobs with interesting perspective and scientific impacts as long as the topic is within the research scope of the chair of Business Intelligence Research.
• Externally finaced research projects: This is the biggest kind of commitment in collaboration. New  researchers are emplyoed and dedicated to the reserach project and its outcomes. The topics should lie within the scope of the resarch profile of the chair and the projects must yield scientific and practical implications for the application domain. The projects are considered  core of a doctoral dissertation and therefore the projects do usually last no shorter than three years.