Two-sided platforms have gained increasing importance as a business model and research attention over the last couple of years. Examples in the consumer-to-consumer domain include platforms for accommodation sharing, shared mobility services, car sharing, resale, crowd-work, and many more. As...

We study competition for consumer attention in which platforms can sacrifice service quality for attention. A platform can choose the "addictiveness" of service; a more addictive platform yields consumers a lower utility of participation but a higher marginal utility of allocating attention. We...

Terror kills, inciting words can kill, but what about online platforms? In recent years, social networks have turned into a new arena for incitement. Terror organizations operate active accounts on social networks. They incite, recruit, and plan terror attacks by using online platforms. These...

In this report we describe the advancements on the Bioma Framework developed during year 2017. Given that the Bioma platform is quite mature, its core was not recently changed. So that the majority of changes concerns the implementation of the models developed in the platform. Moreover, during...