A database design for IDE

Abstract: The thesis is the culmination of an academic degree and an important steppingstone for the student on the way to employment. Academic and industrial institutionsrely on thesis students to explore research directions that may otherwise beoverlooked. Consequently, an efficient process for connecting students withsupervisors and relevant, viable thesis proposals is crucial for students, for academiaas well as for the industry. A database can serve as the basis of a software applicationto facilitate such a process. Support for tackling concerns such as data persistence,redundancy and security, which are challenges in most application designs, is built into common database systems. In this work, we investigate how a database system canbe leveraged as the foundation for an application that connects students with thesisproposals and supervisors.