On June 13, 2018, Dr. Gero Herkenrath (Trusted Shops GmbH) give a talk about "Dealing with Trust - Improving a business's reputation with Trusted Shops" in the context of the SFB 901. Moreover, Dominik Gutt and Dr. Behnud Mir Djawadi from SFB 901 will present some results on „Reputation in OTF-Markets“.

On June 13, 2018, the SFB is being visited by the Trusted Shops GmbH.

On May 4, 2018, Darius Schlangenotto has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Consumer Responses to Paid Search - Empirical Evidence from a Bricks-and-Mortar Retailer".

On May 2, 2018, Prof. Dr. Marcin Bienkowski (University of Wroclaw) will give a talk about "On phase-based algorithms for online file migration" in the context of the SFB 901.

On March 20th, 2018, Dr. Bart de Keijzer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) will give a talk about "Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Markets" in the context of the SFB 901.

On February 21, 2018, Arne Schwabe has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Data-Centre Traffic Optimisation using Software-Defined Networks".

On February 13, 2018, Daniel Jung has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Local Strategies for Swarm Formations on a Grid".