[AISWorld] HICSS 53 Call for Papers Minitrack Blockchain for digital services

[Rossi Matti]

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 53: Minitrack Call for Papers
Blockchain for digital services


(in Decision Analytics, Mobile Technologies and Service Science track)

Minitrack chairs:
Juho Lindman, Matti Rossi, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen


HICSS-53: January 6-10, 2020|   Maui, Hawaii

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2019
Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu
Theme
We are moving into an era of utilizing blockchains that create opportunities as well as challenges for the creation of new services and whole service ecosystems. New platform technologies, such as blockchain, offer new opportunities, especially for developing radically new transactional digital services. According to HBR, “blockchain could dramatically reduce the cost of transactions” by replacing private trust services with an open mode. There are examples of blockchain use for identity management, maintenance of shipping records in cross-border shipping, and even digital art. In addition to transparency, blockchain also offers near instant settlement and finalization, which is important in, for example, stock trading, title transfers and so on. Blockchain technologies in wider context (i.e. beyond Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies) are expected to develop into the new “Internet transaction platform”.

We are also interested on research related to the emergence of new peerless platforms and distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs), their use and effect on 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. These developments have clear links particularly to research on transactional services, but we invite submissions that focus on all kinds of novel services and platforms building on blockchain and their use and users.

As HICSS continues to address leading-edge developments, we especially encourage the submission of papers describing innovative services and approaches to utilizing blockchain. We welcome service science papers that discuss blockchain applications, as well as studies employing design research, qualitative or quantitative research methods.
Topics
Relevant topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to:

  *   Blockchain and other open platform technologies, such as Ethereum
  *   Non-public or semi-public blockchain variants (private and consortium chains)
  *   Emerging blockchain ecosystem analyses
  *   Usage and implementations of tokens
  *   Identity management systems utilizing blockchain
  *   Individual and/or organizational level barriers to use of different blockchain applications and services
  *   Development of users’ trust in different blockchain applications and services
  *   Novel approaches to development of blockchain applications and services
  *   New application areas of blockchain
  *   Public sector blockchain uses and challenges
  *   DAOs (Decentralized autonomous organizations)
  *   Other emergent payment and transaction platforms
  *   “Outside the box” blockchain implementations (for example in corporate governance, scientific publishing)
  *   Challenges for viability of blockchain in the real world
  *   Good, bad and ugly of the current use cases and industry experiences

Mini-Track Chairs

Juho Lindman (Primary Contact)
University of Gothenburg
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
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business
Department of Information and Service Management
P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Visiting address Ekonominaukio 1 Room V209, Espoo
https://goo.gl/maps/cniDWnZrAiy
email: matti.rossi at aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi at aalto.fi>
Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi