Comment by matsemann
9 years ago
Wow, cool to see my thesis here! I posted a picture of it [1] to r/bicycling yesterday titled I managed to make my thesis in computer science be about bicycles!, and it got some traction. I answered some questions in the discussion, if anyone is interested.
Can I ask a question, please don't take it the wrong way, as I find optimisation a very interesting topic, and in fact it was also the subject of my thesis. However: How is this a computer science thesis, and not a mechanical engineering thesis? I'm just curious how you managed to pass a wheel-design topic through a CompSci program. Did you have a co-supervisor in engineering? Or does your school have a combined CS/engineering program?
It's really a thesis about EMO-algorithms and how to use them to optimize real-life problems. The wheels just happen to be the chosen application of the optimization, if you get what I mean?
Ah ok, I was wondering if that was the case. Wasn't really clear from the way you presented it. Can you summarize your results regarding the algorithms? What worked best, what didn't?