In 2019, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and The Center for Business Analytics (CBA) collaborated to promote and disseminate research and applications among academicians and professionals interested in theory, methodologies and applications in major understanding of intelligent service systems. The awards encourage a culture shift for scholars and professionals to come together in order to greater progress in these fields.
As a result of this collaboration the “Move the Field Forward Best Paper Award” was given at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). It recognized exceptional research methods displayed by students and professionals within areas such as artificial intelligence, intelligence augmentation, collaborative intelligence, cognitive, wisdom, cloud & fog computing, business analytics, big data, and the internet of things.
Nominations were collected by December 15, 2018, 24:00 PST for the HICSS 2019 Conference. The top 5 research papers (out of 28 nominations) received certificates and awards at the HICSS Celebration of the 52nd year award ceremony.
On the 52nd anniversary of the HICSS awards, Milgard School of Business faculty had the pleasure to witness exceptional groups of students and professionals displaying their abilities to innovate and explore new perspectives of evolving intelligent service systems. The ideas that have been put forth by these groups are ones that will aid the field of intelligent service systems moving forward. The Center of Business Analytics is excited to participate in the next award ceremony, where we hope to see new groups of individuals display their research excellence and encourage innovation in the field of smart service systems.
The names of the winning groups, nominees, and the award committee are as listed below:
MOVE THE FIELD FORWARD BEST PAPER AWARD
2019 Top-5 Winners ISSIP-IBM Smart Service System Best Paper Award
- Crossing the Uncanny Valley? Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for More Realistic Virtual Humans in Immersive Environments by Mike Seymour, Lingyao Yuan, Alan R. Dennis, Kai Riemer https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/59615
- Skimping on Gas – Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Electricity Market Application by Taneli Hukkinen, Juri Mattila, Kari Smolander, Timo Seppälä, Tobias Goodden https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/60123
- DecidArch: Playing Cards as Software Architects by Patricia Lago, Jia F. Cai, Remco C. de Boer, Philippe Kruchten, Roberto Verdecchia https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/60220
- RoboTalk – Prototyping a Humanoid Robot as Speech-to-Sign Language Translator by Daniel Christian Homburg, Mirja Sophie Thieme, Johannes Völker, Ruth Maria Stock https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4190254713822387635/HICSS_2018_RoboTalk_2nd submission_UPLOAD-finales1.pdf
- Robust Look-ahead Three-phase Balancing of Uncertain Distribution Loads by Xinbo Geng, Swati Gupta, Le Xie https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4206509882514974305/IBM-Award-Nomination.pdf
LIST OF NOMINEES WAS
- Author: Alan Dennis, Kai Riemer, Michael Seymour, Lingyao Yuan
Title: “Crossing the Uncanny Valley? Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for More Realistic Virtual Humans in Immersive Environments
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4184764992815350942/SIGGRAPH HICSS 09-19-18.pdf - Author: Tobias Goodden, Taneli Hukkinen, Juri Mattila, Timo Seppala, Kari Smolander
Title: Skimping on Gas – Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Energy Market Application Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185333951744024456/Skimping on Gas %E2%80%93 Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Electricity Market Application %5BFinal Submission Version%5D.pdf - Author: Jia F Cai, Remo C. de Boer, Philippe Kruchten, Patricia Lago, Roberto Verdecchia
Title: DecidArch: Playing Cards as Software Architects
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4187007148422434179/decidarch-playing-cards.pdf - Author: Daniel Homburg, Ruth Stock, Mirja Sophie Thieme, Johannes Völker
Title: RoboTalk – Prototyping a Humanoid Robot as a Speech-to-Sign Language Translator
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4190254713822387635/HICSS_2018_RoboTalk_2nd submission_UPLOAD-finales1.pdf - Author: Xinbo Geng, Swati Gupta, Le Xie
Title: Robust Look-ahead Three-phase Balancing of Uncertain Distribution Loads
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4206509882514974305/IBM-Award-Nomination.pdf - Author: Gregor Blossey, Jannick Eisenhardt, Gerd Hahn
Title: Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management: An Application Perspective
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4212045600715478351/hicss52a-sub2892-cam-i8(1).pdf - Author: Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, Mercy Gardiner
Title: Factors behind the Assimilation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software by Mid-Sized and Large Firms in a Pre-Emerging Economy: A Case Of Ghana
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4207419595265536482/Factors Behind ERP Assimilation in Pre-Emerging Economies – Final Edition.pdf - Author: Nadine Homburg, Moritz Merkle
Title: A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes toward Humanoid Robots in Germany, the US, and India
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4206863947117919791/Wish and Reality about Service Robots_Review_10.pdf - Author: Moritz Merkle
Title: Customer Responses to Service Robots – Comparing Human-Robot Interaction with Human-Human Interaction
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4206283946986091996/hicss52a-sub2413-cam-i8.pdf - Author: Chintan Amrit, Hans Borgman, Daan Langbroek, Anne Maike Somsen
Title: Rerouting Digital Transformations
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4201433806717321248/Rerouting Digital Transformations Final Submission.pdf - Author: Ignacio Aravena, Georgios Patsakis, Deepak Rajan
Title: A Stochastic Program for Black Start Allocation
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4201156217939929152/FinalHICSS.pdf - Author: Shan Gao, Esko Hakanen, Risto Rajala, Pekka Töytäri
Title: Digital Transformation in Asset-intensive Businesses: Lessons Learned from the Metals and Mining Industry
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4199345553108758470/hicss52a-sub1713-cam-i8.pdf - Author: Menghong Han, Tianyue Miao, Jiayin Qi, Siqi Shen, Zebing Xu, Yuexin Zhou
Title: An Analysis of the Cause of Privacy Paradox among SNS Users: take Chinese College Students as an Example
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4191875920213568405/An Analysis of the Cause of Privacy Paradox among SNS Users.pdf - Author: Maximilian Diez, Benedikt Notheisen, Christof Weinhardt, Sven Willrich
Title: Requirement-driven Taxonomy Development – A Classification of Blockchain Technologies for Securities Post-Trading
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4190657239325441239/2018_Notheisen et al_Taxonomy BC_final.pdf - Author: Farhad Mohammad Afzali, Simon Caton, Margeret Hall, Markus Krause
Title: Is Quality Control Pointless?
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4190023029816031491/quality control is pointless_cameraready.pdf - Author: Sarah Almoaiqel, John Carroll, Jiawei Chen, Natalie Cope, Frank Materia, Hongjian Wang, Xiying Wang, Haining Zhu
Title: Day Re-construction: Understanding How College Students Manage Their Time Through Self-monitoring
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4186488768328978899/lifelogger-hicss.pdf - Author: Philip Ehret, Bela Gipp, Thomas Hepp, Stephan Leible, Alexander Schoenhals
Title: Overview of Licensing Platforms based on Distributed Ledger Technology
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185997012332262977/hicss52a-sub1273-cam-i8.pdf - Author: Thomas Llanso, Martha McNeil, Cherie Noteboom
Title: Multi-Criteria Selection of Capability-Based Cybersecurity Solutions
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185639422127029119/MarthaMcNeilStudentPaperNomination.pdf - Author: Walter Brenner, Christian Dremel, Daniel Gerster, Prashant Kelker
Title: How Enterprises Adopt Agile Structures: A Multiple-Case Study
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185601205222972268/HICSS-2019_CRP-1191_revised-submitted_final.pdf - Author: Joao Paptista, Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Kamaran Sheikh
Title: Spatial practices in digital work: calling for a spatial turn in information systems research
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185184485019234761/HICSS 2018 13th September FINAL V8.1 with authors.pdf - Author: Ulrich Baldauf, Sebastian Saxe, Ingrid Schirmer, Jöran Tesse
Title: Supporting Cross-Organizational Assimilation of IoT Innovation Exemplified by the ChainPORT Initiative
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4185089298938195362/Supporting_Cross_Organizational_Assimilation_of_IoT_Innovation_Exemplified_by_the_ChainPORT_Initiative (1).pdf - Author: Mujid Attar, Kyeong Kang, Osama Sohaib
Title: Knowledge Sharing Practices, Intellectual Capital and Organizational Performance
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4184954659644139907/HICSS-KE-IC-OP Manuscript Final After Reviews.pdf - Author: Tobias Dehling, Olga Labazova, Ali Sunyaev
Title: From Hype to Reality: A Taxonomy of Blockchain Applications
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4184765514426110405/Manuscript_2396.pdf - Author: Jie Cai, Donghee Yvette Wohn
Title: Live Streaming Commerce: Uses and Gratifications Approach to Understanding Consumers’ Motivations
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4184751130951543256/HICSS uses and gratifications 9.12- final reivised.pdf - Author: William Howe, Sun Kyong Lee, Dalaki Livingston
Title: Is #NotMyBattlefield Rooted in Gamer Identity? An Examination of Demographic Factors, Genre Preference, and Technology Use of Gamers
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4182043994521208747/HICSS_Submission_Final_9_18.pdf - Author: Pouya Aleatrati Khosroshahi, Daniel Elsner, Robert Lagerström, Alan D. MacCormack
Title: Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Applications
Link: https://www.jotform.com/uploads/hicss/83172001999157/4181060842044006612/FINAL_PAPER.pdf
THE AWARD COMMITTEE CONSISTS OF
- Rama Akkiraju, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Watson & ISSIP 2018 Vice President
- Dr. Ralph Badinelli, Ralph Medinger Lenz Professor in Business in the Department of Business Information Technology of the Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech, Board of Director of ISSIP
- Dr. Sergey Belov, University Relations Coordinator, IBM Central & Eastern Europe
- Dr. Haluk Demirkan, Milgard Endowed Professor of Service Innovation & Business Analytics, and Director of Center for Business Analytics at Milgard School of Business, University of Washington – Tacoma, Board of Director of ISSIP & Track Co-Chair of HICSS
- Yassi Moghaddam, Executive Director of ISSIP
- Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG), IBM Research – Almaden & Board of Director of ISSIP
- JoAnn Winson, Program Director, IBM Global University Programs
- Heather Yurko, ISSIP 2019 Vice President