ISSIP Best Paper Awards for ISM 2025

ISSIP Best Paper awards for ISM 2025 – International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing, University of Malta – Malta. 12-14 November 2025. Of 383 submissions to ISM 2025, 55 were considered of special interest to the ISSIP service innovation community of practice, and 9 finalists selected. In addition to announcing the best papers selected by ISSIP leadership.

First Place Best Paper Award

Title: An Artificial General Intelligence Supported Business Model Innovation Initiation and Ideation Phase
Authors: Manuel Brunner (LI), (DC), Ann-Kristin Thienemann, Shailesh Tripathi, Nadine Bachmann, Alican Tüzün, Sebastian Pöchtrager, Judith Warnau and Herbert Jodlbauer

Second Place Best Paper Award

Title: Balancing Exploration and Exploitation for Efficient Black-Box Cloning in Smart Manufacturing
Authors: Vagan Terziyan, Oleksandra Vitko and Oleksandr Terziyan

Third Place Best Paper Awards

Title: Exploring the adoption of as-a-Service business models: Opportunities, Challenges and Enablers
Authors: Federico Adrodegari, Laura Scalvini, Marco Ardolino, Roberto Sala, Mattia Galimberti and Giuditta Pezzotta

Title: Exploring Enablers of Data-Driven Sustainable Business Model Innovation: A Systemic View of Innovation Ecosystems
Authors: Nadine Bachmann, Alican Tüzün, Shailesh Tripathi, Manuel Brunner, Ann-Kristin Thienemann, Judith Warnau and Herbert Jodlbauer

Fourth Place Best Paper Awards

Title: Design Smart Services for Smart Factories through Continuum Computing
Authors: Raffaele Gravina, Luca Greco, Antonio Guerrieri and Claudio Savaglio

Title: From Service to Second Life: A Two-Tier Scoring Framework for Reuse, Remanufacturing, and Recycling of Multidomain Assemblies
Authors: Patrick Bründl, Sophie Wagner, Albert Scheck and Florian Risch

Title: Ecosystem services and risks in viticulture: Mapping the literature through bibliometric, network, and meta-analysis
Authors: Amenallah Zouari, Leonardo Agnusdei, Pier Paolo Miglietta, Marco Cataldo and Giulio Paolo Agnusdei

Title: Wellbeing in the Industry 4.0 to 5.0 transition: a study on Corporate Social Responsibility in manufacturing and service sectors
Authors: Umile Magarò, Gabriele Zangara, Vincenzo Corvello and Luigino Filice

Title: FedHR5.0: A Federated Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Workforce Competency Development and Cross-Institutional Knowledge Exchange Following Industry 5.0 Principles
Authors: Fabio Liberti

ISSIP invites the authors to sign-up as ISSIP participants (free), and specify their LinkedIn Profile URL to receive an ISSIP Digital Credential (DC) for Knowledge-Sharing Eminence. Those best paper finalist authors who receive ISSIP DC (Digital Certifications) can add it to their LinkedIn Profiles by following these instructions. Authors can email info@issip.org if they have questions.

ISSIP is grateful for the opportunity to work with ISM 2025 Committee Members on selecting the best papers to share with the ISSIP community. Special thanks to Program Co-Chair Vittorio Solina, ISSIP Ambassador Antonio Padovano, as well as ISSIP Best Paper Selection Committee Members, including Jim Spohrer and Haluk Demirkan.