LIACS

Master Theses

2011

1. Bogumila Sobolewska: Business value of online communities in public sector
2. Christian Schouten: TBA
3. Marco Hofman: Text mining in Dutch reports with a specific vocabulary
4. Michael de Groot: Virtual Collaborative Work as Weak Ties
5. Petr Hyl: Instability Evolution in International Joint Ventures
6. Adrian Kentsch: Exploratory Recommendations Using Wikipedia's Linking Structure
7. Sjaak Koot: Applying the Capability Approach to ICT4D Projects, an Organisational Perspective
8. Ruben van de Wouden: How does the relationship between behavioral uncertainty and trust evolve in an interorganizational relation?
9. Joel de Groot: Incorporating Software Quality in the Capitalization of Software as an Asset
10. Matthijs Bierman: Empirical research into Gateway-reviews at the Dutch national government
11. Soerin Bipat: How can the adaptation behavior of IT project managers, within the Dutch government, be explained in situations of political involvement?
12. Robbert van Eijk: Web Tracking Detection System (TDS) An effective strategy to reduce systematic monitoring and profiling of user habits across websites
13. Gengsi Sun: Introducing RPB model for stakeholder management in ING lending transformation programme
14. Clemens Timmermans: The changing laws of business agility, A case study on improving business agility in case of legislative change

2010

1. Joseph de Groot: Business IT Alignment and a Market Orientation
2. Teppo Helles: Institutional Influences to Business Strategy in Emerging Economies: A strategic planning framework for multinational corporations contemplating market entry into China
3. Jan Udes: Haalbaarheidsonderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van e-learning ten behoeve van een veiliger gebruik van sociale netwerk sites door licht verstandelijk beperkte kinderen
4. Tim van Meurs: Lean Software Development The role of processes and of preconditions for success
5. Raymond de Vos: Networks and information technology: Citizens taking responsibility and participate within a changing health care environment
6. Matheus Vlasveld: Web 2.0. patterns, The implications on web content management, document management and knowledge management
7. Sander van der Zon: Process improvement of the purchase process via an enterprise architecture maturity model
8. Arjan Assink: Social Media as a recruitment tool
9. Raluca Toader: An analysis of the effects of security requirements on planned project resources
10. Istran Dulos: Requirements reviewing in a software factory: A case study
11. Christian Wittenberg: Is Outsourcing Killing or Kindling Innovation?
12. Klaas-Dirk van Opstal: Platform based software development

2009

1. Sandhya Lalloesingh: Exploring the operational working routines in the domain of virtual projects
2. Peter Bargon: Building a Cost Effective Vendor Management Service
3. Constantijn Bakker: Towards balancing business- and it interests in architectural design decisions
4. Andre Jonker: Value of “Collaboration Platform”For Knowledge Intensive Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (KI-SMEs)
5. Carl Suares: Project Management Steps towards professionalization 
6. Jurjen Borst: The weight of Corporate Culture in the ERP Software Selection Process
7. Rene Noorduin Grecco: Local Governments, How Change Process Analysis Can be Used to Explain Why E-Participation Projects Fail
8. Yuguang Shi: Application of Kriging on Auto Insurance Premium Calculation Modeling
9. Qiaoya Wang: Applying Density Estimation Model to Driving Behavior Analysis
10. Fabian Ifland: External IT Application Complexity and its impact on the organization
11. Qingjing Yang: Audit: An Integration Oriented Internal Control and Monitor Tool for Process Management --A Case study of Canon CR process
12. Lei Zeng: Change Management in Software Process Improvement – the case of a global financial group
13. Stefan Zhelyazkov: Business Value of software in SMEs
14. Stef Cobelens: Exploring in-game advertising in first person shooters
15. Gerrit van der Meijden: IT Project Standards In A Globally Distributed Organization
16. Libing Qiu: A Comparison of Process Descriptions and Specifications in the Offshored Software Development Industry
17. Dejan Radosavljevik: Prepaid Churn Modeling Using Customer Experience Management Key Performance Indicators
18. Jan Visser: Beheersing of afstemming

2008

1. Wojchiech Chowanski: Towards flash crowd proof web services
2. Bauke Fahner: EA Framework
3. Egon Gleisberg: Employing Criteria for Prioritizing and Selecting Projects for the IT Portfolio
4. Robert Laman: Assessing the added value of project management methods – the case of InFraMe
5. Chen Li: An Exploratory Research about Comparison between Current Care Process and Telemedicine Care Process
6. Tsoe Loong Li: Measuring performance of not-for-profit organizations
7. Tao Ma: A Way of Improving Sales Process
8. Christos Mileos: Examining the Relationship between IT Governance Software and Business Value of IT: A Questionnaire Based Approach
9. Sonny Juma Nyeko: e-Business models for Telecentres in developing countries: Sustainability for Social Entrepreneurs
10. Jasper Odijk: Alignment of IT and business strategies: A case study of strategic alignment and its underlying processes and capabilities at homecare service organizations
11. Patrick den Oudsten: Adoption of open source CRM: towards a framework for open source CRM adoption
12. Jorge Andres Osorio Socho: Evaluation of different strategies for the implementation of RUP within KLM. Using a simulation-based methodology of systems thinking called systems dynamics
13. Konstantinos Skliris: Adoption of computer mediated communication systems in virtual trams
14. Sanna Tauriainen: Corporate culture & Knowledge Sharing
15. Chung-ming Tsai: Account sales
16. Panagiotis Vodinas: Change Management in Information systems - Implementations that Depend Heavily on External Partners
17. Folkert van Wagenberg: Assessment of Business-information security alignment
18. Ting Wang: A process study on end users’ post-adoptive behavior
19. Xin Wang: Aspect-oriented Programming Aided High-level test automation enhancement
20. Xinyu Jiang: Strategic decision-making on ICT R&D projects: Integation of Real Option Reasoning with Technology Roadmapping
21. Di Yu:  Building dynamic capabilities of project development: a study on management practices in a global IT project

2007

1. G. Vasquez: The role of datamining in the provision of relative value of growth
2. Z. Xu: Secure employee knowledge exchange in multinational cooperation – A theoretical model
3. S. Blom: Corporate social responsibility and online shopping
4. R. Sparnaaij: Bridging the gap between intra-organizational mobile collaboration scenarios and tools
5. J. Harders: Planning in disruptive environments
6. Ch. Satbhai: Mainframe capacity planning
7. Z. Ni: Recommendations for an improved transactional forecasting tool
8. N. Xu: Explanation interfaces in recommender systems, model in ABN AMRO
9. Y. Zhang: An empirical study on abnormal returns from M&A activities in ICT industry
10. R. Sneijers: Strategic alignment from an enterprise architecture perpective: An investigation in the Dutch casualty insurance industry
11. M. Stolwijk: Organizational and automation modelling aspects of the ANSI RBAC standard
12. A. Hannink: Service innovation management in MVNOs
13. K.-J. Molendijk: Matching project stuation and software development methods
14. S. Butt: Business software integration maturity model
15. R. Siebeling: Organizational knowledge creation and transfer through distributed systems
16. A. Clairmont: A process oriented approach for identifying the expected business value of an IT investment: The POVI method
17. S. van den Belt: Analysing IT risk management tools
18. W. Heijstek: Empirical investigations into rational unified process effort distribution in industrial software engineering projects
19. A. Soekhoe: Client-oriented innovation in the Dutch home care – Archimate contributes to the design of an ECT care platform
20. M.Y. (Casey) Yap: An exploratory study: virtual worlds and political participation
21. H. van Doorn: Relevant factors for developing and implementing a policy for corporate social responsibility, The role of the ICT department

2006

1. Jeroen Goddijn: Implementing competency management in knowledge intensive ICT organization
2. Rui Chen: Application of collaborative filtering algorithm in Bioinformatics
3. Chong Gao: Simulation and optimization on analytical and collaborative customer relationship management
4. Prewies Gaja: How an IT system could intensify the interaction between salespersons and R&D in new product  development in a configure-to-order-oriented company
5. Kamran Heydari: Service management in the mobile phone industry
6. Soeris Ramautar: KPI for software requirements
7. Alastair Comley: Concluding knowledge transfers: a case study about SSA Global Inc.
8. Tjeerd Tesselaar: Concluding knowledge transfers: a case study about SSA Global Inc.
9. Tristen Raboen: A wireless short message framework model in electronic business
10. Bastiaan Maat: The need for fusing head & neck cancer data. Can more date provide a better data mining model  for predicting survivability of head & neck cancer patient?
11. Lei Tao: Using genetic programming to find optimal purchase-ordering rules
12. Patrick Ditmar: Intrinsic software quality management through the use of a CMM-based assessment model
13. Jing Wu: Information visualization in enterprise news portal
14. Ariadi Nugroho: Modeling web service orchestration with paradigm
15. Yin Zhou: Coordination modelling and design of adaptive learning content to content management system: paradigm  modelling in the case study of BioTune project
16. Xiang Ding: Road to a virtual homecare organization
17. Lianzhuang Qu: Road to a virtual homecare organization
18. Ender Atalay: Data warehouse success: the Impact of System - and data quality on the typical organization
19. Jelmer Cormont: Applying requirements engineering to knowledge management practice
20. Junfeng Liang: Modeling coordination in ICT and business worlds
21. Richard Gerding: Researching IT-Governance in a credit management company
22. Marnix Eedens: Self-service technology acceptance: an assessment of differences in propensity to use self-service  technologies among passenger segments in an airport environment

2005

1. Lodewijk Benjaminse: Creating and sharing knowledge with expertpanels
2. Matthijs Kerkvliet: Differences in success of executed ICT projects
3. Susanne Stevens: Change impact analysis and enterprise architecture. The Archimate model
4. Arno Spierenburg: The learning-effects of ICT mediation on the formal and network governance of the buyer and seller of information intensive systems in long-term business relationships
5. Jeroen Prommenschenckel: Risk analysis in information security
6. Patrick Koen: Sarbanes-Oxley; getting a grip on technical IT infrastructure
7. Wei Shen: Peer-to-peer based knowledge management system
8. Giljan Val: ICT for the innovative office - using models in a study on the innovative office and its ICT aspects
9. Marinus Riemens: Communicating with enterprise architecture. About how enterprise architecture can be used for decision support
10. Shanshan Wang: Trust improving extension for B2B e-marketplaces: a case study in China
11. Bin Li: Constructing a high-level, fundamental, generic, and secure e-commerce software architecture by using UMLsec for the small and midsize logistic enterprises
12. Wei Ren: How to use CobiT in health care organization's IT auditing
13. Meikun Jia: IT outsourcing to China - risk assessment
14. Harm Snippe: IT-governance in executive agencies
15. Lina Sun: Making the right offer to the right customer: strategies for real world multi product decision
16. Sergio Prieto Ballon: Crime data mining
17. Zhaochun Sun: Improve data reliability for fused data in data mining
18. Wei Zhang: Evolving trading rules with a hybrid genetic programming and evolution strategies approach
19. Robin van Koppen: Business chain intelligence
20. Yongzhi Li: Specification of coordination behaviors in software architecture using the Reo coordination language
21. Min Xie: Specification of e-business process model for the PayPal online payment process using  Reo
22. Daniel van Hilten: What is the impact of cultural differences on multi-site software development?
23. Willem Volkeri: What is the impact of cultural differences on multi-site software development?
24. Hendrik Engels: Data warehousing in The Netherlands: stages of growth and associated issues

2004

1. Evert–Jan de Bruin: Methods for impact analysis at UWV
2. Lingjun Meng: Artificial immune system for knowledge discovery
3. Jeroen Derwort: Online soccer manager ‘going global’
4. Jing Li: Market based accounting study on components of goodwill in acquisitions ­ an empirical study in ICT industry
5. Hongliang Wang: Designing attack resistance in evolving mobile architecture
6. Rabia Fatehmahomed: Zenc goes international. Vergelijkend onderzoek naar overheidsprocessen in Nederland en België