Master Thesis
For the upcoming semester, the Chairs of Management Science, Operations Management, and Data-Driven Decision Support organize access to Master thesis topics together. Hence, in order to apply for a Master thesis topic, it is mandatory to hand in the following form to mansci@ovgu.de: Application form Master thesis.
Please hand in the application form together with a current transcript of records.
Application deadline for a thesis to start at the beginning of the winter term 2025/26: 1st September 2025
Note that we expect you to have taken a Scientific Seminar or a Scientific Project at one of our chairs. After your application has been accepted, we negotiate a topic with you. Topics can come from two sources:
- We propose topics before the application deadline (Please indicate in your application in which of these you are interested).
- You propose a topic within an exposé of 1 to 2 pages which is related to our research and the master classes offered by our chairs.
Potential Topics Winter Term 2025/26
- A Rolling Horizon Framework for Dynamic Ferry Routing
- A Literature Review on Flexible Service Network Design Problems
- Reinforcement Learning for a Stochastic Inventory Routing Problem
- The Role of Drones in Transport Operations
- On-demand Delivery Concepts
- Collaboration in Shared Logistics Networks
- Integrating Soft and Hard Caregivers Preferences in Home Healthcare Routing
- Recent Trends in Stochastic Dynamic Inventory Routing Problems
- Innovative Methods for Scenario Generation and Selection in Scenario‑Based Optimization
- Dynamism and Uncertainty in Workforce Scheduling Problems
- Comparing Algorithmic Performances: GurobiPy/Pyomo vs Hexaly for Selected Routing and Scheduling Problems
Topics of the Department of Operations Management can be found through the following link.
Topics of the Department of AI-based Decision Support can be found through the following link.
