Prof. Andrew B. Whinston
University of Texas, Austin, USA
Andrew B. Whinston is the Harkins & Company
Centennial Distinguished University Chair
and Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in
Business Administration, Professor of
Information Systems, Computer Science and
Economics, and Director of the Center for
Research in Electronic Commerce at The
University of Texas at Austin. His current
research interests are electronic commerce,
artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency.
Dr. Whinston currently has 44821 total
citations and an h-index of 98.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary
Poznan University of Economics and Business,
Poland
WOJCIECH CELLARY received the M.Sc.
(1974), Ph.D. (1977) and Dr. Hab. (1981)
degrees all from the Technical University of
Poznan (Poland). In 1989 he received the
title of Professor. From 1974 to 1992 he was
with the Technical University of Poznan,
from 1987 to 1991 serving as the scientific
director of the Institute of Computing
Science. From 1992 to 1996 he served as the
vice-president responsible for research of
the Franco-Polish School of New Information
and Communication Technologies. In 1996 he
joined the Poznan University of Economics.
Currently he is head of the Department of
Information Technology. He has been a
visiting professor at the following
universities: University of Nancy I,
University of Nancy II, University of
Paris-Sud, University of Paris-Dauphine,
France, University of Genova, University of
Ancona, Italy, United Nations University in
Macao and United Nations University in
Guimaraes (Portugal). He has lead numerous
industrial projects on the development of
hardware and software of computer systems
and their applications in
telecommunications, the computer industry,
the electric power industry, and education.
The projects were supported by Polish,
French and American industry, Polish
Ministry for Research and Higher Education,
as well as UE Framework Programmes. He is
co-author of 3 European patents. He served
as a consultant to the Polish Ministries of:
Science, Education, Telecommunications,
Interior, Administration, Digitization and
Regional Development, Polish Parliament and
Senate, as well as many research institutes
and governmental projects. He has been a
main organizer of 50 scientific national and
international conferences and he has been a
member of the program committees of
additional 350 conferences. He is author or
co-author of 10 books, an editor or
co-editor of 10 books, author of 22 chapters
in books, and over 150 articles in journals
and conference proceedings. Currently his
department is specializing in
Virtual/Augmented Reality and Internet of
Things.
Prof. Thomas Hanne
University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Thomas Hanne received
master's degrees in Economics and Computer
Science, and a PhD in Economics. From 1999 to
2007 he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) as senior
scientist. Since then he is Professor for
Information Systems at the University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and
Head of the Competence Center Systems
Engineering since 2012.
Thomas Hanne is author of
more than 180 journal articles, conference
papers, and other publications and editor of
several journals and special issues. His current
research interests include computational
intelligence, evolutionary algorithms,
metaheuristics, optimization, simulation,
multicriteria decision analysis, natural
language processing, machine learning, systems
engineering, software development, logistics,
and supply chain management.
Prof. Harald Øverby
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Harald Øverby (born 1979) is a Professor at
the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU). He received his M.Sc. in
Computer Science in 2002, a B.Sc. in
Economics in 2003, and a Ph.D. in
Information and Communication Technology in
2005. Øverby has also studied law at the
University of Oslo in Norway. Øverby has
published over 80 papers in international
journals and conferences in the areas of
communication technology, digital economics,
business modeling, data coding and optical
networking.
Topic: The Economics and Business of
Multisided Platforms
Abstract: Multisided platforms are
one of the most profitable business
constructs in the digital economy. Some of
the largest digital companies in the
world—including Facebook, Amazon, and
Apple—exploit the multisided platform as a
part of their business model. Multisided
platforms operate in a highly diverse
ecosystem and oversee interactions between
heterogenous actors with different business
motivations. Fundamental insights into
multisided platforms are necessary to
understand today's digital business
landscape. This talk provides an overview of
the various types of multisided platforms
from a network effect perspective. We
identify seven types of multisided platforms
and give examples of digital services for
each group. Analytical models developed
provide new insights into how the various
multisided platforms operate.