Project specific topics can be related to the following projects:
- euBusinessGraph: http://eubusinessgraph.eu/ - a project for building a knowledge graph about companies
- Some applications developed as part of the project: http://eubusinessgraph.eu/business-cases/
- A set of tools developed as part of the project: http://eubusinessgraph.eu/tools/
- The core ontology around which the knowledge graph is built: http://eubusinessgraph.eu/eubusinessgraph-ontology-for-company-data/
- Some further document available via http://eubusinessgraph.eu/deliverables/
A number of thesis topics could be defined as part of this project, for example:
- Matching companies appearing in various sources (challenge here would be to come up with a mechanism to match fuzzy/ambiguous representations of companies)
- Onboarding/Population of the graph with data (challenge here would be related to big data system and mapping data to the core ontology)
- Search / faceted search / visualization for companies in the graph (challenge here would be related to identify cases for use of company data from the graph and find proper ways to search/browse/visualize the data)
- Data analytics on the data in the graph (challenge here would be related to find analytics tasks to be done on the data, e.g. all sorts of graph algorithms such as centralities, data quality, etc, and implement them on the company data)
- Data marketplace for company data (challenge here would be related to finding supply/demand for company data and implementing an ecosystem for trading company data)
- …
- EW-Shopp: http://www.ew-shopp.eu/ - a project for data analytics in the eCommerce domain. It’s similar to the euBusinessGraph, the difference here is that we talk about product data (vs company data in euBusinessGraph). Many of the thesis topics I mentioned above for euBusinessGraph could apply here for product data as well (though access to data is more restrictive in this case – you can see info about datasets at http://www.ew-shopp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/EW-Shopp_Y1-D2.1.pdf)
- TheyBuyForYou: http://theybuyforyou.eu/ - a project related to procurement data (also linked to company information). MSc topics similar to those for euBusinessGraph, with a focus on public contracts with companies
DataGraft related topics are centered around DataGraft – a tool for data cleaning / transformation / knowledge graph generation which is used in the above mentioned projects:
- DataGraft: https://datagraft.io/ - it’s a research prototype, probably best is to look through some of the papers on this topic, here are some examples (access the papers via university network for free access):
- https://content.iospress.com/download/semantic-web/sw263?id=semantic-web%2Fsw263
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-69459-7_32
- https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/innovate-data/2017/0960/00/0960a025-abs.html
- http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1963/paper581.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67262-5_10
A number of thesis topics could be defined as part of this stream, they’d be more generic components (not specific to some domain, e.g. company information) and focus will be more on engineering (big data), for example:
- Design and implementation of scalable backend for data transformations (big data system for executing transformations on large amounts of data)
- Intelligent data cleaning mechanisms (how to make it easier and more intuitive to people to apply transformations on data)
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Data exchange related topics focus around the concept of trusted data exchange, here I can give you a couple of pointers:
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/oterxpler12g5t1/trustedDM_OBD2016.pdf?dl=0
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/mear9bttz4nprwb/paper-camera_ready.pdf?dl=0
Thesis topics could be related to testing out and evaluating technologies for data exchange/transactions, possibly developing new technologies or extending emerging ones since the area is quite new (a combination of technologies for data storage/cryptography/payment would be needed here).
Enjoy!