Research Seminar
Modul University Vienna invites international scholars to share their expertise and present latest research!
Presentations and subsequent discussions last for about 30 minutes each. All sessions are live-streamed, free to attend, and open to the public. No registration needed!
Interested in a) becoming a presenter, or b) receiving invitations by e-mail one week ahead? Please contact christian.weismayersymbolmodul.acpunktat
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Dale Edward Lehman
Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska
Title: “Risky Business: Probabilistic Decision Making"
Date: May 23rd 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 3.06
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Abstract
Virtually all business decisions take place under conditions of uncertainty. Common approaches use scenarios to explore potential implications of different decisions. Monte Carlo simulation is an alternative, and often superior, methodology as a decision aid. This presentation will use a concrete example: variable annuities. These investments offer insurance against decreases in equity markets - in exchange for protection against declines in the market, potential gains are capped. The marketing literature for these instruments consists of concrete examples and scenario analysis. Dr. Dale Lehman will illustrate the use of Monte Carlo simulation as a probabilistic approach to this analysis. He will show how this can be simply implemented in a spreadsheet environment, and highlight the parts of the analysis that can be automated and those where human judgement is required.
An additional example of the flexibility of Monte Carlo simulation will be provided – estimating the impacts of COVID on tourism employment in Europe. Determining the size of these employment impacts requires assessing the degree to which employment has deviated from historical patterns. Given the inherent randomness in past data, time series models are used to separate the systemic patterns from random variation, and Monte Carlo simulation can be used to provide probabilistic assessments of the COVID impacts. This presentation will include a brief demonstration of this methodology.
Dale Lehman is Professor of Business Administration at Alaska Pacific University. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester, and has taught at more than a dozen universities and directed several MBA programs. His publications include 4 books and numerous articles in the areas of the economics of uncertainty and statistical applications. He has consulted widely, principally in the telecommunications industry.
Reinhard Merkel
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
“Humans, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots - Challenges for Autonomy and Responsibility"
Date: May 27th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07
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Eszter Marczellné Szilágyi
Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest, Hungary
“Emotional Intelligence and Knowledge Management"
Date: May 28th 2024 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07
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Oliver Fritz
Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Austria
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Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba
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Past Presentations
Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
“Overtourism in Rural and Mountains Destinations and its Impact on Residents: Evidence from the Czech Republic"
Date: May 16th 2024 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
David B. Smith
City University of New York (CUNY), New York, United States of America
“Navigating Combinative Reality: Devising and Testing a Universal Theoretical Framework"
Date: March 12th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Richard A. Werner
Linacre College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“Credit Creation and Allocation: A Research Program in Evidence-Based Economics"
Date: March 22nd 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Ferenc Kiss
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
“The Role of Knowledge in Accelerating the Development of Capital"
Date: December 5th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Levente Szabados
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany; Neuron Solutions
“Decomposing AI's Evolution: A Wave-Based Approach to Predicting Labour Market Impacts"
Date: November 28th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Viktor Lázár
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
“Robotics Nations"
Date: November 17th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Zoltán Cséfalvay
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
“The Rise of the Startup Cities in Europe - What Factors are Influencing the Startup City Landscape in Europe?"
Date: November 10th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Enikő Szakos
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
“Map and Analysis of the Global, European, and V4 Edtech Scenes’ Present and Future"
Date: November 7th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Dénes Dávid Lóránt
John Neumann University, Kecskemét, Hungary
“Inbound and Outbound Tourism in China: New Perspectives"
Date: September 18th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Frommholz Ingo, Silva Kanishka
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
“Large Language Models and Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities - A Match Made in Quantum Heaven"
Date: September 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Bródka Piotr
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
“Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks - From Diseases to Influence"
Date: July 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Hausknost Daniel
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
“Climate Crisis and the Reactive State: Exploring the Glass Ceiling of Transformations"
Date: May 8th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Fath Brian D.
Towson University, Maryland, United States
“Human Carrying Capacity Constraints and Lessons from Systems Ecology"
Date: March 20th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Aigner Ernest
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
“APCC Special Report: Structures for Climate Friendly Living - Summary for Policy Makers"
Date: March 14th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Liu Yi-Yu
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“The Impact of Financial Viability on Entrepreneurial Intention"
Date: January 24th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska
Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland
“Corporate Decisions at the Time of War: Consumer Attitudes Towards International Brands Operating in Russia after 24.02.2022"
Date: December 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Diana Lynne Stuart
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
“Articulating System Change to Address the Climate Crisis"
Date: November 22nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
“Quo Vadis", Prague...?
Date: November 16th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Anja Hergesell
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
“University clubs' contribution to students' skill development"
Date: November 14th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Brian Craig Petersen
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
“Climate change, myths, and the search for real solutions"
Date: November 8th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“Words that trigger responses in negative hotel feedback"
Date: September 27th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Jan Blažek
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
“The Role of Community Economies and Collaborative Housing Projects in a Shared, Just and Resilient City"
Date: May 10th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Chekembayeva Gaukhar
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“The Study of Museum Virtual Tours"
Date: April 26th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Tavernaro-Haidarian Leyla
University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa
“A Human-Centered Sustainable Development Approach"
Date: April 19th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Durmusoglu Serdar S.
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
“Serial Innovators in Collectivistic Organizations: Conceptual Development, Propositions, and Antecedents"
Date: April 5th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Seewald Gabriele
Taiwan International Institute for Water Education at National Taiwan University
Spiral Seeds Consulting & Projects
“Eco-Social Sustainability through Regenerative Development"
Date: March 2nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Dürrschmid Klaus
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
“Novel Approaches in Sensory and Consumer Science"
Date: January 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ponocny Ivo1, Zins Andreas2
1Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia
“Tourism and Wellbeing"
Date: December 2nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Plzakova Lucie
Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
“Local Tourism Taxes in the Context of Collaborative Economy"
Date: November 25th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Helic Denis
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Graz, Austria
“Applied Data Science for Economic and Social Sciences"
Date: November 11th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Milone Francesco Luigi
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
“Airbnb, Gig Entrepreneurs and Middlemen: Seizing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Platform Era Comparing Different Host Types"
Date: October 21st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Wagner Udo
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Two Recent Studies on Sensory Marketing: Acoustic Stimuli Coupled with Out-of-Home Advertising and Consumer Intuitions when Choosing Vegan Groceries"
Date: October 14th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ferrari Sebastian
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Overtourism: A Portrait"
Date: October 7th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Nixon Lyndon
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Measuring Touristic Destination Image from Instagram Content Using a Deep Learning Classifier"
Date: September 30th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Overtourism - Reading Between the Lines"
Date: June 22nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Improving Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Hotel Room Demand Forecasts for Vienna across Hotel Classes - Evidence from Single Forecast Models and from Forecast Combination Techniques"
Date: June 8th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Daniel Dan
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Supporting Content Marketing with Natural Language Generation”
Date: May 31st 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Marion Garausa, Elisabeth Steinerb, Christian Weismayera
aModul University, Vienna, Austria; bFH Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
“Signaling Food Quality through Sensory Attributes"
Date: May 10th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Nika Balomenou
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
“Photographs in Tourism Research: Prejudice, Power, Performance and Participant-Generated Images"
Date: April 26th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
David Leonard
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Opening a Dialogue with Faculty: How Can We Teach about Business Growth Without Implicitly Promoting Unsustainable Economic Growth”
Date: April 12th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
David Osho
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“A Match Made in Darkness: Examining How Social Communication Platforms have a Psychological Hold on Tourists of Dark Tourism"
Date: April 9th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Hrvoje Daniel Carić
Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia
“Dubrovnik UNESCO World Heritage Site Challenges”
Date: March 1st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Bogdan Pirvu
Novomatic AG, Austria
“An Introduction to Tensor Network Machine Learning”
Date: March 9th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Maximilian Benner
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“Tourism in Israel: Regional Evolution in the Context of EU Alignment”
Date: March 15th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Overtourism: Bringing Order to Chaos”
Date: October 6th 2020 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Serdar S. Durmusoglu
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
"The Collaboratory: Three Cases in a Social Innovation Hub in Struggling Rust Belt of America"
Date: November 17th 2020 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Arno Scharl
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Detecting Emerging Stories and Emotions in the Public Debate - Web Intelligence Applications in Health, Sustainability, and Politics”
Date: November 24th 2020 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Overtourism Measurement"
Date: December 15th 2020 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Sabine Sedlacek, Christian Weismayer, Bozana Zekan, Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“Carrying Capacity Methodology for Tourism"
Date: January 12th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Mario Diaz Munoz
Modul University, Vienna, Austria
“i-CONN: Connectivity, Complex Systems and Critical Flows of Energy Resources”
Date: January 19th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Petr Ocelík, Lukáš Lehotský
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
“Climate Change and Coal in Media Coverage: A Missing Link"
Date: January 26th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Klaus Renoldner
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“The Triple Benefit Principle and Carbon Pricing in Comparison - Perspectives and Limits"
Date: March 3rd 2020 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ben Wooliscroft
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
“Adventures in Macromarketing”
Date: October 22nd 2019 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft
University of Otago, New Zealand
“Which consumption counts – the complexity of quality-of-life”
Date: October 29th 2019 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ivana Volic
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“The role of values in cultural policy”
Date: November 5th 2019 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Klaus Grabler
MANOVA GmbH, Austria
“Touristic business intelligence challenges from a practical point of view”
Date: November 19th 2019 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Sandra Guinand
University of Vienna, Austria
“The city as experience. Challenges of urban production.”
Date: December 3rd 2019 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Hannes Antonschmidt
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“Assessing non-linear data structures with machine learning approaches"
Date: March 5th 2019 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ola Mostafa
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“Integration of refugees at Austrian universities”
Date: April 25th 2019 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Martin Černý
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
“Modelling distributional impacts of the transition to renewable energy with expert elicitation”
Date: April 30th 2019 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Marcelo Gonҫalves Oliveira
Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal
“Discursive gaps in cultural tourism”
Date: May 7th 2019 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Ulrich Gunter, Irem Önder
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“An exploratory analysis of geotagged photos from Instagram for residents of and visitors to Vienna”
Date: May 21st 2019 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Marion Garaus
Modul University Vienna, Austria
"Shoppers' responses to digitalization at the point-of-sale”
Date: November 27th 2018 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Christian Kimmich1, Martin Cerny1, Christian Kerschner2
1Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republik; 2Modul University Vienna, Austria
“MEDEAS: Towards a zero-carbon economy for Europe”
Date: December 4th 2018 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Austria
“Text mining and analysis for marketing”
Date: December 6th 2018 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)
