-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Reminder: HICSS 53 Call for Papers Minitrack Blockchain for digital services Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 09:18:34 +0000 From: Rossi Matti matti.rossi@aalto.fi To: Isworld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Tuunainen Virpi virpi.tuunainen@aalto.fi

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@aalto.fimailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi

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