BSc Information Systems - Dissertation ideas???

jmp85uk

jmp85uk

jmp85uk

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That time has come where a definate idea for a final year project needs to be made and finalised with my tutor.

I will be programming in VB.NET and would welcome ANY suggestions for topics i can look into. Either a new idea, or twist/expansion on an existing product.

It can be anything but must be angled toward the technical side rather than a theoretical report. I am not a hugely confident programmer but can crack on and put the effort in so ANY difficulty welcomed.

Thanks.
 
I have an idea. Join a computer forum and make your first post about getting people to give you ideas on what to do! surely this is something you should be researching and thinking of yourself?
 
Does your uni not give you a big list of possible projects you could chose from if you have no ideas? Mine do. Your best off doing something you are interested in though.

I'm trying to chose mine right now between:
- Real-Time Security (real-time crypto basically).
- Software transactional memory (comparing transactional memory vs blocking)
- Parallel programming visualisation.

Might give you some ideas.
 
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For my Dissertation last year I created a Cinema website which was fully functionally to the follow criteria ->

Allowed the user to select a screen/time to view a specific film.
Allowed the user to select a seat from the range of seats left available.
Allowed the user to create a account and store payment/contact details.

This worked up to the payment section where I didn't let it go further.

Also from a seperate viewpoint I created it so that it was fully dynamic ->

Admins could change movies/screens
Admins could update release notes/actors/runtime etc.
Admins could change film poster.
Admins could reallocate seating arrangements
Admins could view customer details
Admins could add/remove films/customers.

I backed this up with 160+ pages of documentation including planning, research and programming notes with a personal presentation of the system as my final piece.

Not sure if this could be something you could take further.. I've not dabbled in .net but it might let your mind wander a little bit and give you a few ideas..
This might be too simple for a .net dissertation tho..
 
Hi,

Another thing that might make a good subject is how to write applications using Business Process Modelling (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Using BPM an application can be modelled on the actual business processes that the user implements (possibly manually). Tools exist so that the actual users rather than just programmers can fully participate. An example tool would be BEA's Aqualogic.

Service-Orientation allows applications to be written as services e.g the application provides a service to do x. The idea is that these services can then be made available to other applications e.g via web-services.

This could be tied into your cinema project, modelling the system in more detailed etc.

There's loads of books and documentation on this stuff, and it's a fairly new way of doing things.

Jim
 
Chandler_90 said:
For my Dissertation last year I created a Cinema website which was fully functionally to the follow criteria ->

Allowed the user to select a screen/time to view a specific film.
Allowed the user to select a seat from the range of seats left available.
Allowed the user to create a account and store payment/contact details.

This worked up to the payment section where I didn't let it go further.

Also from a seperate viewpoint I created it so that it was fully dynamic ->

Admins could change movies/screens
Admins could update release notes/actors/runtime etc.
Admins could change film poster.
Admins could reallocate seating arrangements
Admins could view customer details
Admins could add/remove films/customers.

I backed this up with 160+ pages of documentation including planning, research and programming notes with a personal presentation of the system as my final piece.

Not sure if this could be something you could take further.. I've not dabbled in .net but it might let your mind wander a little bit and give you a few ideas..
This might be too simple for a .net dissertation tho..
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What course/uni was that for?
 
JIMA said:
Hi,

Another thing that might make a good subject is how to write applications using Business Process Modelling (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Using BPM an application can be modelled on the actual business processes that the user implements (possibly manually). Tools exist so that the actual users rather than just programmers can fully participate. An example tool would be BEA's Aqualogic.

Service-Orientation allows applications to be written as services e.g the application provides a service to do x. The idea is that these services can then be made available to other applications e.g via web-services.

This could be tied into your cinema project, modelling the system in more detailed etc.

There's loads of books and documentation on this stuff, and it's a fairly new way of doing things.

Jim
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Am currently working on a large project at work using SOA and its something that I'd like to base my project on when I go back to uni. :)
 
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Beansprout said:
What course/uni was that for?
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This will make you laugh...

I did that for a final Project of a HNC.
Tutors said I had aimed too high.. managed to finish the whole thing in about 3 months.. while working full time and completing a seperate NC in Engineering (a 2 year course.. I did it in 9 months.)

However... I overlooked one major thing.
I didn't code it with liquid/flexible css..
I'm working on that angle now..

When I get it done I'll post a link.. but I've got a new job now.. working silly hours (up at 4.45am.. not normally in till bout 7pm) so it might take a little time.

Oh.. and the course was HNC Computer and Business Technology.
I got a Distinction :)
 
Chandler_90 said:
This will make you laugh...

I did that for a final Project of a HNC.
Tutors said I had aimed too high.. managed to finish the whole thing in about 3 months.. while working full time and completing a seperate NC in Engineering (a 2 year course.. I did it in 9 months.)

However... I overlooked one major thing.
I didn't code it with liquid/flexible css..
I'm working on that angle now..

When I get it done I'll post a link.. but I've got a new job now.. working silly hours (up at 4.45am.. not normally in till bout 7pm) so it might take a little time.

Oh.. and the course was HNC Computer and Business Technology.
I got a Distinction :)
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Nah sounds about right for a HNC/HND project, non of my lecturers would supervise something like that for Bsc Comp Sci level.
 
Una said:
Nah sounds about right for a HNC/HND project, non of my lecturers would supervise something like that for Bsc Comp Sci level.
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Fair enough.
They said it was the most ambitious project they'd seen for the course.
I didn't mind.. I enjoyed it :)

Got a fair amount of help fromm ppl off here tho.. :D
 
jmp85uk said:
It can be anything but must be angled toward the technical side rather than a theoretical report. I am not a hugely confident programmer but can crack on and put the effort in so ANY difficulty welcomed.
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It is obvious to me what "theoretical" is, but what is "technical"?
 
Sic said:
it isn't really. just seems like you being lazy with your research to me.
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surely most threads need not be posted if the OP cared to scour google for their answers, but people still post cuz its fast, convenient, more personable etc... thats half the point of a forum...

the guy was just after some ideas from a technical orientated forum... wheres the problem guys?

i did my dissertation back in the day around a fully networked stock control system for the engineering department (catalogued all stocked components and allowed for inter departmental ordering, part allocation, etc) - all done in php/mysql/css/xhtml - this was great cuz there was no finantial side to deal with (credit cards etc) just had fiddly bits like allocating sets of components for predefined projects (multiplied by the amound of groups doing that project etc)...

something like this maybe worth a thought?
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
surely most threads need not be posted if the OP cared to scour google for their answers, but people still post cuz its fast, convenient, more personable etc... thats half the point of a forum...

the guy was just after some ideas from a technical orientated forum... wheres the problem guys?

i did my dissertation back in the day around a fully networked stock control system for the engineering department (catalogued all stocked components and allowed for inter departmental ordering, part allocation, etc) - all done in php/mysql/css/xhtml - this was great cuz there was no finantial side to deal with (credit cards etc) just had fiddly bits like allocating sets of components for predefined projects (multiplied by the amound of groups doing that project etc)...

something like this maybe worth a thought?
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thanks for your support, a forum is a form of research now days. going on google and searching "dissertation ideas" would not count as research to me. I am going to look at using artificial intelligence to develop strategies against humans playing poker.
 
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