[AISWorld] HICSS-51: Call for Nomination - ISSIP-IBM-CBA Student Paper Award

[Haluk Demirkan]

Dear Friend and Colleagues,
I just wanted to provide an information about a research paper award program at the upcoming Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018).
More information can be found at http://hicss.hawaii.edu/program-hicss51/issip-ibm-cba-student-paper-awards/  
Deadline for Submission: November 15, 2017, 24:00 PST

The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and the Center for Business Analytics (CBA) at Milgard School of Business, University of Washington-Tacoma announce the 2018 (HICSS 51) "Move the Field Forward Best Paper Award", intended to recognize research excellence in the areas of major understanding of smart/wise service systems at organizations.

- The ISSIP (http://www.issip.org/) is a non-profit organization co-founded by IBM, Cisco & HP to promote human-centered "smart" services for value and outcome.
- IBM (https://www.ibm.com/us-en/) is an American multinational technology company. For more than a century IBM has been dedicated to every client's success and to creating innovations that matter for the world.
- The vision of CBA (http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/cba) is to be the premier inter-disciplinary university center for business innovation at the interface of data, analytics and smart machines.
ISSIP, IBM and CBA collaborated to promote and disseminate research and applications among academicians and professionals interested in theory, methodologies and applications in major understanding of smart/wise service systems (cognitive, wisdom, cloud and fog computing, business analytics, big data, mobile, social, security, internet of things, digital transformation, service science, service innovation etc.). The awards also can encourage a cultural shift by scholars toward explicit recognition of their collaboration with industry practitioners and demonstrate the benefits of such interaction for scholarly research.

- Up to 5 papers may receive ISSIP-IBM-CBA awards based on evaluation criteria. Each of winning paper may receive up to $1000 award check and a certificate.

Thank you
Haluk Demirkan 
Milgard Endowed Professor of Service Innovation & Business Analytics, Milgard School of Business, University of Washington - Tacoma 
Founder & Director of Center for Business Analytics, and Master of Science in Business Analytics
Co-Founder & Board of Director, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (www.issip.org)   
Track Chair for Analytics, Mobile & Service Science at HICSS (www.hicss.hawaii.edu/)