Bachelor

DBS1 Database Systems
  • Representations and Models: ER/M, relational Model, normal forms
  • Query Processing: Relational operators, SQL, query optimization
  • Integration: JDBC, transaction management
  • Hot topics, such as  platform economy, data mining in a database

Master

EDM: Enterprise Data Management

We cooperate with companies in student projects, such as  Zalando, SpringerNature, HERE, WebTrekk, Heise.de etc.

  • Data Value: Platform economy, data products
  • Data Mining: Clustering, Classification, measuring success
  • Search: query intentions, retrieval models (TF/IDF, Page Rank, Language Models)
  • Selected topics in deep learning and text mining

Students can also combine projects in EDM with their master thesis in the next semester.

Business Intelligence
  • Data warehousing overview
  • ETL and ELT
  • OLAP operators (with a focus on the in-memory RDBMS Exasol)
  • Data value: Platform economy, data products
  • Your cap stone project/Your startup project (I)
Text Mining
  • Introduction to text classification applications
  • Part-of-Speech Tagging, Dependecy Parsing
  • Distributional Semantics
  • Sentence/paragraph classification and hate speech detection based on deep neural networks
  • Named Entity Linkage based on Long Short Term Memory Networks
  • Named Entity Linkage (Text2Text, Text2Table) based on Deep Neural networks
  • Hot topics
  • Your cap stone project/Your startup project (II)
Enterprise Data Science
  • Data science organisations
  • Iterative product development and transfer from research into products
  • Platform economy and data products (II)
  • Researching for scientific literature, methods and data sets
  • Advanced search technology: learning search intentions, learning-to-rank
  • Hot topics
  • Your cap stone project/Your startup project (III)

Students can also combine projects in EDS with their master thesis in the next semester.

PhD/"Promotionen" (together with a Partner-University)

If you are a an experienced master student you may join our group after your master thesis as a PhD student. Please study our current topics and approach Prof. Löser per email.