Timing and Organization
The slides (PDF, 541 KB) will be shown in the introduction session, summarize important thematic and organizational aspects of this seminar. Please consider, in addition, the following information and material:
- Guideline to write a seminar report (PDF, 157 KB)*: This document contains just two pages of text the most important information on how to structure a written seminar report, the key points of style in writing such a document, and essentials on the correct use of references and citations. All students are required to carefully consider these guidelines when compiling the written seminar report.
- Seminar requirements and guidelines (PDF, 569 KB): This document contains all requirements to be met for a successful participation in the seminar. Note that all deadlines and requirements have to be met. Especially, you need to be physically attending the seminar at all minus one date.
- For the written seminar report, the use of the provided LaTeX template (ZIP, 330 KB) is mandatory.
Since this seminar's background runs with the debated topic of the future of the Internet, security, and economic impacts, the following three papers provide an impression of different approaches and viewpoints regarding the Future Internet and its design principles. The Stanford University paper (PDF, 111 KB) presents a so-called clean-slate approach to the Future Internet, meaning a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary approach. The FIArch (Future Internet Architecture Working Group) paper (PDF, 100 KB) collects fundamental limitations of the current Internet, while the ITU-T Recommendation Y.3001 (PDF, 241 KB) outlines a collection of high-level objectives and design goals for future networks. Understand that these papers are highly selective out of many more.
Topics
| Talk | Title | Student | Supervisor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Future Internet Architectures — Economical or Not? | TBD | Thomas Grübl | October 9, 2025 |
| 06 | Bitcoin Perpetual’s Funding Rate | TBD | Reza Abtahi | October 16, 2025 |
| 03 | A Comparison of Open-Source and Proprietary Large Language Models | Zhuhao Fan | Chao Feng | October 23, 2025 |
| 04 | Clickbait Capitalism — The Economics of Misinformation Online | Elliot Jonsson | Andy Aidoo | October 30, 2025 |
| 05 | Exploring Governance in Self-Sovereign Identity Wallets | Saksham Joshi | Daria Schumm | November 6, 2025 |
| 02 | The Recent Advances of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems | Joshua Winterflood | Weijie Niu | November 13, 2025 |
| 11 | Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools for Human-Centered Explanations in Privacy Context | Maxim Emelyanov | Katharina Müller | November 20, 2025 |
| 08 | Payoff-Driven Consensus: Incentive Design for Multi-Agent Federated Reinforcement Learning (RL) | Pierre Obermaier | Franciso Enguix | November 27, 2025 |
| 09 | The Role of Explainable Recommender Systems in Internet Economics | Marcelina Suszczyk | Nasim Nezhadsistani | December 4, 2025 |
| 10 | The Cost of Achieving “Green AI” — Is it Worth it or Not? | Tristan Hein | Gökcan Cantali | December 11, 2025 |
| 07 | Flash Loans: Risks, Opportunities, and Blockchain Implications | TBD | Ahmad Abtahi | December 18, 2025 |
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* The description of each topic (PDF, 403 KB) and topic information (PDF, 553 KB) are available here.