The effect of digitisation in the construction industry, applied to a specific case

This page provides hints on what to include in your master thesis.

= Status = = TOC = Title page, abstract, ... (use UiO template from the very beginning)
 * ongoing work: define TOC with keywords and expected outcome
 * prepare short presentation for Bjørvika (12Feb meeting)
 * 1. Introduction, containing: short intro into the area, what is happening
 * 1.1 Motivation, containing: what triggered me to write about what I'm writing about
 * 1.2 Methods, containing: which methods are you using, how do you apply them: Literature analysis, interview, observations,


 * 2. Scenario, optional chapter for explaining some use cases
 * 2.1 user scenario Bjørvika
 * 2.2 Requirements/Technological challenges: a) literature review, best praxis b) how to perform use case analysis


 * 3. State-of-the art/Analysis of technology, structure your content after hardware/SW (or other domains). Describe which technologies might be used to answer the challenges, and how they can answer the challenges
 * 3.1 Literature review - digitisation in construction
 * 3.2? Bjørvika plans and goals
 * 3.3 analysis of processes++ in AF Gruppen


 * 4. Comparative analysis of digitisation in Bjørvika
 * 4.1 functionality, goals
 * 4.2


 * 5. Evaluation: a) results of your work, b) revisited method and work performed
 * 6. Conclusions
 * References

For all of these chapters, create a list of keywords and the expected outcome

''in addition, have one chapter called open issues/questions. Here you place all "disturbing elements", such that you can concentrate on writing''

= Comments =

Red line
Your thesis should have a "red line", which is visible throughout the whole thesis. This means you should mention in the beginning of each chapter how the chapter contributes to the "goals of the thesis".

Use of scientific methods
A thesis follows a standard method:
 * describe the problem (problemstilling)
 * extract the challenges. These challenges should be measurable, e.g. method is too slow to be useful to voice handover.
 * Analyse technology with respect to challenges. Don't write & repeat "everything" from a certain technology, concentrate on those parts (e.g. protocols) which are of importance for your problem

References
 * Wikipedia is good to use to get an overview on what is happening. But there is not scientific verification of Wikipedia, thus you should use wikipedia only in the introduction of a chapter (if you use text from wikipedia). Use scientific literature for your thesis.
 * Scientific library is "at your hand", you can get there directly from UiO: How to get access to IEEE, Springer and other scientific literature -> Unik/UiOLibrary
 * I suggest that references to web pages, e.g. OASIS, W3C standards, are given in a footnote. Only if you find white papers or other .pdf documents on a web page then you refer to them in the reference section.

Evaluation of own work
Perform an evaluation of your own work. Revisit the challenges and discuss in how you fulfilled them. Provide alternative solution and discuss what should be done (or what could have been done).