MASTER THESIS
General Workflow
The official deadlines and dates can be found at the Institute's homepage: Master Thesis Workflow.
You can take a look at this sample thesis to get a better view of how it is supposed to look:
Additionally, the DBIS group has deadlines on intermediate presentations of the thesis as follows:
Hints for Submission
- Make sure that your latex sources are compilable.
- Please use the provided style for LaTeX (in the Download-Section)
- Language: English
- Please pay attention to the important information on the website of the Examination Office - among others the deadlines ‘Fristenregelung‘ and the guidelines for electronic submission and publication of academic theses.
Final print version
- 2 copies for DBIS
- Two sided print (in color, if figures contain colors)
- Please provide a dark blue glued binding. No book or spiral binding.
- Title page: 160g (carton cover) paper (color: white), please copy title pape of the pdf on carton cover (in color)
- Back page: 160g paper (color: white)
- If you are in doubt, feel free to lend a sample copy from the dbis secretary and take it with you to the Studia copy center.
Data Submission
In addition to the printed version, please include all required data for your thesis on either a CD, a USB drive or a memory card. The contents should be structured as follows:
- Labeling:
- University of Innsbruck, Institut für Informatik, DBIS
- "Master Thesis", Title, Name, Date
- Content:
- readme.txt: a plain text file containing information about the content of the CD/USB drive/memory card as well as a description on how to use software, if applicable.
- docs: a directory containing detailed information about submitted software, if applicable. This could be, for example, a compiled JavaDoc documentation.
- binary: a directory containing binary versions of your software, if applicable.
- source: a directory containing the source code of your software, if applicable.
- thesis.pdf: the final version of your thesis in PDF format.
- thesis_source: a directory containing the latex sources of your thesis. The sources must be compilable and its output must match the submitted thesis PDF file.
- thesis_presentation.[pdf/pptx]: the final presentation slides. These can be in either latex beamer style or Powerpoint. If you submit your slides in latex, please also include a directory thesis_presentation_source that contains the latex sources.
- literature: a directory containing all of your sources that you have cited in your paper and presentation. These can be in PDF or stored as HTML.
- If your project requires other files that are not listed (e.g. detailed results in Excel speadsheets that are not fully covered in your thesis), please include them in a suitable directory and add its description in the readme.txt file.