Headlines for master thesis

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Preface

• Abstract
• Background/Introduction

Prototype summary

• Pluggable facet filters
• Grouping algorithm
• (Solr configuration)

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Prestudy

Methodology

• Literature, "interviews", prototyping

Case study: Qalixa

• Unique/Interesting challenges
• Oppurtunities for improvement
  • Data/input quality
    • Performance
    • Interactivity
    • Code maintainability

Theoretical summary

• Information Retrieval
• Usability

Availible tools

• IR frameworks
• Client side tools

Literature study

• Gathered ideas and inspirations from relevant papers on
  • Data mining,
  • clustering,
  • entity matching
  • classification
  • Recommendation systems (realized by facebook integration?)
  • Exploratory search / Domain specific search?
• Focus on pointing out what ideas and papers can be applied in future work

Stakeholder analysis

• Qalixa
• Academic challanges
• Readers of this article
• Learnings

Suggested solutions

• User interface ideas
  • Mock ups
• Algorithmic ideas
• Theoretical motivations

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Prototype

• User interface implementation
  • use case analysis
  • overall architecture
    • improving maintainability
  • generalizing the concept for other use cases (Analysis?)
• Grouping algorithm
  • improvement prospects
  • implementation overview
• Solr configuration
• Data importer

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Conclusions

• Analysis
  • How well were oppurtunities met by the prototype?
  • Unmet oppurtunities and problems with prototype
• Future work
  • Inspirations/sources for future solutions
  • (new bottlenecks and prioritizations)

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Appendix

• links to source material
• instructions for use and deployment
• known issues