[AISWorld] Call for Papers HICSS-51 (2018) MT: Open digital services and platforms

[Rossi Matti]

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
HICSS-51: January 3-6, 2018| Hilton Waikoloa Village

Call for Papers
HICSS-51 (2018): Open digital services and platforms
Track Decision Analytics, Mobile Technologies and Service Science track

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2017
Website: www.hicss.hawaii.edu


How does the value provided by open digital services disrupt markets and advance digitalization? Open digital services and platforms are no longer a novelty, and their importance for individuals, organizations as well as societies is expected to grow fast. As the available service stack grows, we can see the proliferation of innovation on many areas (e.g. traffic, news, payments, and most recently finance).

New platforms and platform technologies, such as blockchain, offer new open source-based opportunities for developing radically new digital services. In the case of blockchain it can be about replacing private trust services with an open mode or providing new very low cost and instant money transfer services. Also for example sharing economy services (such as, Airbnb and TaskRabbit) build on the “open” phenomena and practices, including technology (open source platforms, such as Docker) and markets (open participation and access).

We seek novel research describing open services, service systems or service platforms. The submissions can be research papers, case studies, or practitioner reports related to open service development and their implications. We are especially interested on research related to the emergence of open services and open platforms in business ecosystems as well research that follows up whether and how anticipated commercial success materializes and is measured. Answering these questions is pivotal from the perspectives of business research and policy making.

Studies employing design research as well as either qualitative or quantitative research methods are all welcomed. The minitrack provides a venue to present findings and, to debate the future of these digital open services and platforms.


Relevant topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to):

•              Blockchain and other open platform technologies
•              Business models of open digital services
•              Novel approaches to development of open data applications
•              Business value of open data services and service systems
•              Aggregation of open and proprietary data
•              Location and sensor data based services
•              Open data and service infrastructures
•              Privacy issues related to open data services
•              Openness in digital service platforms (e.g. sharing economy)


Mini-Track Chairs:

Juho Lindman (Primary Contact)
University of Gothenburg/Chalmers
juho lindman at ait.gu.se

Matti Rossi
Aalto University School of Business
matti.rossi at aalto.fi

Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
Aalto University School of Business
virpi.tuunainen at aalto.fi



Matti Rossi
President-elect
Association for Information Systems
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business
P.O. Box 21220 Chydenia (Runeberginkatu 22-24)
FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi