Theses

Prof. Bouros has a long experience in advising and (co-)supervising undergraduate and graduate student projects.

The Data Management group offers interesting topics for theses (bachelor or master) on query processing, database systems and information systems. Some suggested topics can be found in the following link (last update on October 18, 2023). Interested students can also suggest their own topics of interest.

For more information contact Prof. Bouros via email (bouros@uni-mainz.de).

Ongoing (first by type, then in alphabetical order)

  • Christian Rauch, Doctorate thesis
    Temporal Information Retrieval (working title)
  • Achilleas Michalopoulos, Doctorate thesis
    Partitioning and Indexing Techniques for Scalable Spatial Query Evaluation
    University of Ioannina
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Doctorate thesis
    Join Operators for Complex Data
    University of Ioannina
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • Samia Mubarika Goraya, Master thesis
    Comparing State-of-the-Art NLP Techniques for Information Extraction from Systems Neuroscience Publications
  • Giorgos Kotsinas, Master thesis
    Querying intervals (working title)
    University of Ioannina
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • Tobias Laures, Master thesis
    Academic Social Neworks-Spatial Evolution of Scientific Communities
  • Julius Hoffmann, Bachelor thesis
    A Graphical Interface for Managing Geosocial networks
  • Patrick Götz, Bachelor thesis
    A graphical user interface for systems neuroscience data
  • Jan Raider, Bachelor thesis
    A Graphical User Interface for Managing Interval Data

Completed (by completion year)

  • 2024 - Timo Suk, Master thesis
    Route Inference as a Tool for Generating Training Data for ML-based tasks
    University of Kostanz
    Primary supervisor: Dr. Theodoros Chondrogiannis
  • 2023 - Yazhou Pan, Bachelor thesis
    Processing spatial keyword search queries
  • 2023 - Lina Khidair, Bachelor thesis
    An interactive graphical user interface for systems neuroscience graph data
  • 2023 - Huu Duy Nguyen, Bachelor thesis
    Path Diversification for Evacuation Planning
  • 2023 - Nina Röckelein, Bachelor thesis
    Measuring the Attractiveness of Transportation Modes using Relative Reachability and Mobility Patterns
    University of Kostanz
    Primary supervisor: Dr. Theodoros Chondrogiannis
  • 2023 - Abed Al Rahman Sansour, Bachelor thesis
    A Graphical User Interface for generating Geosocial networks
  • 2023 - George Christodoulou, PhD thesis
    Interval Data Management in Main Memory
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • 2023 - Arjanit Arifi, Bachelor thesis
    Training ETA models with recovered routes
  • 2023 - Maximilian Detlef Zerbe, Bachelor thesis
    Spatio-textual outlier detection
  • 2023 - Adrian Kissinger, Bachelor thesis
    Selecting geospatial data on maps for routing applications
  • 2023 - David Betz, Bachelor thesis
    Extending the EURASIM Interface for Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas
  • 2022 - Judith Kunz, Master thesis
    Finding Similarity Through Dissimilarity: Utilizing path dissimilarity for role extraction in networks
    University of Kostanz
    Primary supervisor: Dr. Theodoros Chondrogiannis (for Prof. Dr. Michael Grossniklaus)
  • 2022 - Samia Mubarika Goraya, Bachelor thesis
    Generating complex and composite data
  • 2022 - Claudia Berenice Perez Martinez, Bachelor thesis
    An interactive interface for generating road networks
  • 2022 - Lisa-Patricia Barth, Master thesis
    App-Based Specification and Visualization of User Preferences in Routing
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer
  • 2021 - Yannic Marcel Moog, Bachelor thesis
    Extending k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap
  • 2021 - Marc Araujo Conde, Bachelor thesis
    A Database with Amnesia
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Schuhknecht
  • 2021 - Daniel-Valentin Kowalski, Bachelor thesis
    Evaluating GeoSocial Reachability Queries
  • 2021 - Christian Häcker, Bachelor thesis
    k-Most Diverse Near-Shortest Paths
  • 2020 - Artur Titkov, Bachelor thesis
    Spatially Combined Text Searches
  • 2019 - Mohamed Masarwa, Bachelor thesis
    Monitoring Geo-Social Influence in Location-Aware Social Networks
  • 2019 - Alina Gerhards, Master thesis
    Equi-joins on GPU
  • Primary supervisor: Prof. Bertil Schmidt

  • 2019 - Matthias Sawatzky, Bachelor thesis
    A Web Application for Analysis and Comparison of k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap Algorithms on Road Networks
  • 2017 - Theodoros Chondrogiannis, PhD thesis
    Efficient Algorithms for Route Planning Problems on Road Networks
    Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Johann Gamper
  • 2016 - Shuyao Qi, PhD thesis
    Advanced Ranking Queries on Composite Data
    Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, China PR
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • 2016 - Jens C. B. Madsen and Benjamin Petersen, Graduate student project
    Continuous Monitoring of Geo-Socially Influential Users
  • Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

  • 2016 - Tobias Sommer, Graduate student project
    Outlier detection on spatio-temporal data
  • Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

  • 2015 - Florian Hönicke, Diploma thesis
    Optimizing Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce
    Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Johann-Christoph Freytag
  • 2015 - John Liagouris, Doctorate thesis
    Web Data Management with Applications in Privacy (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2014 - Anja Kunkel, Undergraduate student project (Studienarbeit)
    Set Containment Joins using Two Prefix Trees
    Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 - Shen Ge, PhD thesis
    Advanced analysis and join queries in multidimensional spaces
    Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, China PR
    Primary supervisor: Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
  • 2009 - Dora Kontogianni, Diploma thesis
    GRAPHIT-DB: Graph Data Management System (II) (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2009 - Vassilis Giannopoulos, Diploma thesis
    P-Miner+: Portal Catalogs Administration Supporting Usage Data Mining Processes (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2008 - John Liagouris and Trifon Farmakakis, Diploma thesis
    DataBase supported Reasoning System (DBRS) (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2007 - Lemonia Boula, Diploma thesis
    GRAPHIT-DB: Graph Data Management System (I) (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2006 - Theodore Galanis, Diploma thesis
    P-Miner: Portal Catalogs Administration Supporting Usage Data Mining Processes (in greek)
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece