Profiles of Thesis Students in the Field of Computer Science and Their Link with UM Research Projects

Participation of undergraduate students in research projects allows to detect their vocations so they can develop their career as researchers in the academic field and/or recognize the importance of research in an industrial context. The objective of this study is to find the relationship between characteristics of undergraduate thesis students and their link with research projects implemented in the University of Moron (UM), as well as to identify the thesis students who have experience in other activities linked to research. To meet this goal, a set of experiments was performed using the Kmeans, Expectation Maximization, J4.8, Naive Bayes and BayesNet algorithms; along with WEKA and Elvira environments. The experiments results showed that the reason for thesis topic choice is the attribute of greater incidence in research projects participation, as well as in other research activities proposed in the Thesis Seminar.