Master Seminar

IS 752: Master Seminar for Master Students (MMM, MMDS, Business Informatics)

Lecturer	Prof. Dr. Jana-Rebecca Rehse
Type of Course	Seminar
Credit Points	6 ECTS (MMM), 4 ECTS (MMDS, BI)
Offering	Every semester
Language	English
Prerequisites	Fundamental knowledge in process mining and/or machine learning
Assessment	Seminar thesis (80%) and Presentation (20%)
Examination Date	See schedule (below)
Registration	See below

Junior Professor of Management Analytics

University of Mannheim
Assistant Professor of Management Analytics
L 15, 1–6 – Room 413
68161 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-1766
E-mail: rehseuni-mannheim.de

Credit: Rike Allendoerfer

Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Apply basic research methods from the IS discipline
Independently and systematically explore a research topic
Structure and write an academic paper
Be equipped to start your master thesis
Registration
Applications are possible only during the registration period. You may apply for a seminar thesis by sending an e-mail to jpmacmail-uni-mannheim.de. Applications should consist of
A short letter of motivation, listing the topics that you would like to research in your thesis.
Your CV
Your current transcript of record

Topics
You can find the seminar topics for FSS 2025 here. Please specify your preferred topics in your application.
In the case that none of the listed topics is of interest to you, you may suggest your own topic. In this case, it is expected that you have sufficient foundational knowledge of this topic and can prove its relevance by means of appropriate literature.
Milestones
1st Milestone: The aim is to structure and prepare your topic appropriately in the form of an outline. This should contain the following:
Outline of your work
Introduction and motivation of the topic
Description of the research method (Structured Literature Review) and its concrete application to your chosen topic
(Preliminary) bibliography
2nd Milestone: The goal is a first draft of the finished manuscript. This should already contain completed text blocks (in the previously determined outline) and literature references. Results and conclusion do not have to be formulated yet.
Formalities
Seminar thesis should consist of roughly 20 pages (+/- 20%) and be formatted using the LNCS templates. Templates for Word ans LaTeX can be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
The available cover sheet must preface the seminar thesis. It must be filled out with all relevant information and the affidavit must be signed,
Presentations should take about 15 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion) and use the university PowerPoint template.