Internal Lunch Seminars

Internal Lunch Seminars provide an informal forum for local researchers to present their work in progress and receive feedback and criticism from colleagues. Speakers present preliminary findings of their research (ideally with paper draft available). Talks should last no longer than 30 minutes, leaving ample time for discussion. All interested parties are welcome to attend, and we encourage participants to bring their own lunch or sandwich. Small sandwiches will be provided before the seminar from 12:00 to 12:15. Talk will start at 12:15. If you wish to present your work, please drop us an email.

Upcoming seminars

9 Apr

12:00

Institutional Factors and the Extraction of Limited Health Resources

Jonathan Stäbler (Masaryk University - Department of Public Economics) ESF Academic Club Personal website

The healthcare situation in many developed countries has become precarious due to limited supply and a steadily growing demand stemming from mandatory health cover for all. As a result, health resources may get allocated inefficiently with those with potentially serious conditions not getting treated in a timely manner. In this paper, we test measures to prevent such inefficiencies, including i) instituting a co-payment for using healthcare services, ii) creating a triage system based on self-reporting one's symptoms, and iii) receiving access to more accurate signals about one's health needs. Drawing on a game theoretic framework with other-regarding preferences, we conduct an online experiment with a large, representative sample of UK adults, where participants decide whether to extract resources from a limited common pool after receiving a noisy signal about their types. Our results suggest that all measures reduce unnecessary extractions from the common pool. While both the cost and self-report triage system have the highest impact on participants extraction choices, the accuracy treatment leads to the highest efficiency, as it reduces the errors stemming from noisy signals.

23 Apr

12:00

Distributed and trustworthy digital twin platform based on blockchain and Web3 technologies

Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan (Masaryk University - Department of Business Management) ESF Academic Club

The fourth industrial revolution has significantly increased the adoption of Digital Twins (DTs) across various sectors, including intelligent manufacturing, automation, logistics, and medical analysis. Despite substantial progress in deploying DT projects, numerous challenges remain, such as managing distributed data flows, protecting commercial confidentiality, securing intellectual property, and ensuring privacy and security. This research introduces a novel approach to addressing these challenges by leveraging blockchain and Web3 technologies, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). The study aims to develop a distributed, tamper-proof DT cooperation platform that facilitates traceable and trustworthy data sharing while preserving intellectual property rights and enabling decentralized governance. This platform enhances idea and invention ownership, promotes collective decision-making through consensus protocols, and explores innovative solutions like blockchain-based federated learning and efficient DT project fundraising tools. Relying on security models and analysis tools, this study addresses several important security analysis methods that are known as practical analysis methods. They can strongly prove every claimed security feature of DT projects. The proposed solutions set the stage for future academic and industrial advancements, supported by a comprehensive SWOT (Strongness - Weakness - Opportunity - Threat) analysis, and outline potential future research directions.