THESIS TOPICS 2015

One third of the whole degree is determined by your summer thesis. It is easy to submit your own research topic, once you find a faculty member with at least a vague interest in it, but hundreds are offered to you as well. Here are some of the cooler pre-packaged topics we could choose between:

1. A Data Science Approach to Murder Mysteries - Jeremy Singer
2. Adrift: Measuring topical drift in Twitter Timelines - Iadh Ounis
3. Algorithm Animator - Gethin Norman
4. An Urban Programming Language - Jeremy Singer
5. Analysis of conflict patterns in political debates - Alessandro Vinciarelli
6. Browsing social data for social event analysis - Alessandro Vinciarelli
7. Capacitive Touch in Everyday Objects - Julie Williamson
8. Collecting Behavioural Statistics - Alessandro Vinciarelli
9. Cybersecurity situation awareness - Chris W Johnson
10. Detecting Potential Fraud in an Election based on Twitter Monitoring - Karen Renaud
11. Displaying Nearby Stars - Ronald R Poet
12. Dynamic discovery of vulnerable nodes in social networks - Inah Omoronyia
13. Enhanced Parliamentary Voting Visualisations - Simon Rogers
14. Gaussian Processes with Structured Inputs - Maurizio Filippone
15. Input Validation and Handling in software applications - Inah Omoronyia
16. Intelligent component model for android devices - Inah Omoronyia
17. Intelligent Smart Phone Search System - Yashar Moshfeghi
18. Mapping Hurricane Sandy - Joemon M Jose
19. Memory leaks reporting tool - Inah Omoronyia
20. Metabolomics Data Processing - should we match peaks or metabolites? - Simon Rogers
21. Passhint authentication using faces as passwords - Lewis M Mackenzie
22. Regional Economics Indicators Dashboard for the Crichton Institute Regional Observatory - Tim Storer
23. Scale-Up vs Scale-Out Systems: the new frontier - Peter Triantafilou
24. Serendipitous Research Connections - Jeremy Singer
25. Simulating Risks from Space Debris - Chris W Johnson
26. Simulation and Analysis of Quantum Computing - Simon J Gay
27. Space Travel Program - Ronald R Poet
28. STATISTICAL NETWORK TRAFFIC ANOMALY DETECTION - Dimitrios Pezaros
29. Steganography - Ronald R Poet
30. Stress testing of complex software systems - Inah Omoronyia
31. The Travelling Salesman Problem - David F Manlove
32. Verification of the Glasgow Model Coupling Framework - Alice A Miller
33. What happened in my city? An Urban Data Timeline - Craig Macdonald
34. Who to follow in context: recommending information and opinion providers in social networks during major events - Craig Macdonald
35. Zen-app: Limiting mobile phone use 

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And the hall of fame of (best papers) from previous years:

2005

• Bibliography manager
• Alumni system for MScIT students
• Dynamic graphical system for finding low cost flights, utilizing web data mining
• Development of web service based security components for the ATLAS metadata interface
• Supporting the Data Protection Act
• Interactive video virtual tour in the 19th century Hunterian Museum
• Website help assistant
• Session management system for the Clyde Windsurfing Club
• Towards a prototype of the new SPA matching scheme
• Centralised matching scheme for probationary teachers
• Web service for the analysis of clusters of conserved orphaned proteins
• Electronic referral of cardiac patients for pre-participation screening
• Mind games: a computer draughts player
• PhyloBot: crawling the web for specific data files




2006


• Efficient and effective detection of plagiarism and collusion
• a configurable multicore processor simulation
• Information from short messages
• Visual aesthetics
• Web services for teaching
• Developing software engineering teaching tools




2007


• Addressing accessibility
• Animation of a digital circuit simulator
• Car sharing database
• A visualisation tool for interpreting BLAST search results
• Developing a Bluetooth-enabled J2ME game
• Two-handed tactile data exploration through hand tracking
• SteadyClicks for mobile devices
• Extending a message understanding system




2008


• Algorithms for Allocating Medical Graduates to Positions
• Computer Games: Othello
• An Implementation of the Annealed Importance Sampling Algorithm for Model Comparison
• Baseball Scorekeeper for a Mobile Device
• Background Sensing Using Muscle Tremor Input on a Mobile Device
• Podcast Search Engine
• Tactile Geiger Counter for Ubiquitous Computing




2009


• Tactile Widgets for Mobile Devices
• Teaching System for Software Cost Estimation
• Comparing Steganography Algorithms
• BibTeX Manager
• Accommodating Tied Preferences in the SFAS Matching Scheme
• Gesture Media Player
• Development and Implementation of a File System for Gannet Virtual Machine
• Implementing mRVMs and Investigating the Sparsity vs Accuracy Trade-off
2010


• Mind Games: Othello
• Machine Learning Teaching Aid
• Comparison of matching methods for medical students
• Amanda Li: Matching Algorithm Interface
• Claire Shenny-Skeffington: Political Principal Components




2011


• Marie-Therese McLaughlin: Virtual Reconstruction of the Napoleon Tea Service in Hamilton Palace
• Manipulating Musicons
• Information Visualisation: Web page layout
• Information Display Controller
• Web Interface for Event Tickets
• Graphical modelling language for PRISM
• Estimating real world usage of image steganography




2012


• Training program for securing against social engineers
• A tool for Psychological Therapy
• Visualizing Geo-Tagged Data
• Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage Interpretation and Education
• Design and Implementation of a multi-sport management system
• Development of a web-based metabolomics pipeline application
• Matching Algorithm Interface
• IPv6 Deployment and Migration




2013


• Glasgow University Campus Maps (GlasUniMaps) App
• Technology for Severe Mobility Impairment
• Cryptic Crossword Solutions with MCMC
• An Animated Emulator of MC6809 for Teaching Purpose
• Algorithms for the House Allocation Problem
• Determining the authorship of the Communist Manifesto using computational authorship attribution
• Probabilistic Modelling And Analysis Of A Non-Repudiation Protocol
• Visualising Nanopatterns in Java Bytecode
• Hope Fertility: Developing an Android App for Managing Fertility
• Crossword Compiler
• Determining the authorship of the Aristotelean Mechanica.



2014


• Usable interfaces for GIS system creation
• Drawing editor for digital circuits
• Laughter distribution in mobile phone conversations
• Heat sensing for a firefighter's glove
• A / B Testing of Search Interfaces
• A rogue-like game with procedurally generated levels
• The chasm of perplexity
• Displaying Nearby Stars
• Computational modelling of red blood cells
• A software workbench for facial anthropometric analysis
• Architecting a database backend for an academic search engine
• Mobile Phone Application
• Register machine simulator for desktop or smartphone/tablet
• A Game of Strategy - Gold Rush
• Interactive Geological Mapping Tool
• A thread placement simulator for massively manycore processors
• Procedural storyline generator for a role-playing computer game
• Dynamic discovery of vulnerable nodes in social networks
• A security sandbox for software components
• Predicting change in share market using twitter-based data analysis
• Visualising paired and altruistic kidney exchanges