Automated Dynamic Pricing

Student(s): Enrique Barrueco Mikelarena, Jan Kunnen, Guus Eijsvogels, Maxime Duchateau, Georgios Koutidis, Francesca Battipaglia; Supervisor(s): Prof. Gerhard Weiss; Semester: 2020-2021; Problem statement and motivation: Dynamic pricing is the concept of a vendor, retailer or other organization that sells products or services adjusting its selling price according to some sort of…

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Disentangling cell mixtures in cancer from omics data and images

Student(s): Julia Hindel, Mehrdad Pouyanfar, Olivia Kirk, Lucy Quirant, Felix Rustemeyer, Marius Sommerfeld; Supervisor(s): Rachel Cavill, Katerina Staňková, and Esther Baena (Cancer Research UK); Semester: 2020-2021. Problem statement and motivation: Game theory uses mathematical models to look at how different agents (in this case cells) interact. It is used in…

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Deviant AIs for Game Analysis

Student(s): Cas Giepmans, Chris du Toit, Kimberly Stessen, Viktor Cef Inselberg, Zsolt Harsányi Supervisor(s): Cameron Browne & Dennis Soemers Semester: 2020-2021 Problem statement and motivation: An important part of designing a new game, is checking whether it is fun and interesting to play. Normally, you test whether the rules are…

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Explainability in Machine Learning

Students: Marcel Böhnen, Maxime Jakubowski, Christian Heil, Zhi Kin Mok, Annika Selbach; Supervisors: Pieter Collins, Nico Roos; Semester: 2018-2019. Fig 1. – What is explainability? Problem statement and motivation: What is Machine Learning? Machine Learning is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike normal algorithms where a model is manually programmed…

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Context-Free Celtic Knotwork

Students: Quinton Denman, Maxine Hanrieder, Sebas Higler, Lianne Hufkens, Steffen Schneider; Supervisor: Cameron Browne; Semester: 2018-2019.   Fig 1. – General image that illustrates overall project. Left: Image of a flower. Center: Mesh rendering of the flower. Right: Celtic knotwork of the flower (this image shows an interpretation of the…

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Prediction of Protein Levels in Cells

Student(s): Marco Kemmerling; Supervisor(s): Dr. Rachel Cavill; Year: 2016; Fig 1. – Prediction performances with linear regression and support vector regression. Problem statement and motivation: The relationship between protein levels and other biological measures like gene or microRNA expression is not very well understood. To further the understanding of this…

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DKE Scheduling Project

Students: Anton Bulat, Fatimah Mulan Ahmed, Fred Shen, Maxime Laschet Supervisor: Dr. Matúš Mihalák Semester 2015-2016 Problem statement and motivation: The aim of this work is to compute an optimal schedule for the students and teachers of the Department Data Science of Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University. The research and…

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Criticality of Tasks within Project Management

Student: Ashley Peternella Supervisor: Dr. Jean Derks Semester: 2015-2016 Problem statement and motivation: Project managers are charged with the responsibility of managing all the tasks within a project to ensure that the project is completed within an agreed deadline, with a certain quality, and for an agreed price. To know…

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Topic detection and tracking system

Student(s): Daniel Brüggemann, Yannik Hermey, Carsten Orth, Darius Schneider, Stefan Selzer; Supervisor(s): Dr. Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis; Semester: 2015-2016; Fig 1. – Dynamic Topic model with emerging topics on the documents of August and September 1996 from RCV1 Corpus Fig 2. – NMF topics over time on the documents of Reuters archive 2015 Fig…

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