Share Your Work at the 2027 Hawai’i International Conference on the Systems Sciences

It’s time to start planning your submission to the ISSIP-managed minitrack—Practitioner Research Insights: Applications of Science and Technology to Real-World Innovations at the Hawai’i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), Jan 5-8, 2027, hosted at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawai’i.

This minitrack is a two-way bridge between academic research and the organizations on the front lines. Our goals are two-fold:

1. Create a forum for industry colleagues to share insights that others can incorporate into future teaching and research, a practical step in upskilling our workforce.
2. Engage industry and academic colleagues to find collaboration opportunities.

Topics and Requirements

This minitrack solicits 3-page executive summaries (versus the standard HICSS submission of a 10-page paper) and 10-minute presentations. We explore applications of science and technology to real-world innovations through practitioner reports, case studies, best practice examples, tutorials, challenges, issues, opportunities, tools, techniques, and methodologies of emerging digital technologies. In many cases, practice is ahead of academic research contributions. 

Also special to this mini-track are the requirements that:

• At least one member of the author team must be a practitioner (i.e., with their main professional affiliation outside academia)
• At least one member of the author team must be a member of ISSIP (International Society of Service Innovation Professionals). Note that individual membership in ISSIP is free and available here.
• We solicit reviews from the ISSIP membership with special reference to this call for papers (rather than the academic standards applied to submissions to HICSS through the other mini tracks).

Possible themes/topics of this minitrack include, but are not limited to:

1. Data and Analytics
   ● Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
   ● Machine learning, deep learning, quantum computing
   ● Data, text, web, and social media mining
   ● Data, information & knowledge management
   ● Design science, storytelling, and visual analytics
2. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing
   ● Smart machines and computerization
   ● Hyperautomation and robotic process automation
   ● Ethical AI and responsible AI practices
   ● AI-driven decision-making and augmentation
   ● Networking & AI
3. Cybersecurity
   ● Blockchain & distributed ledger technologies
   ● Federated learning and secure data sharing
   ● Endpoint security and consumer device protection
   ● Risk management, compliance, and legal solutions
   ● Data, network security products, and strategies
4. Internet of Things
   ● IoT applications in various industries
   ● Edge computing and real-time data processing
   ● Personalization in retail, finance, healthcare, and e-commerce
5. Service-Oriented Technology & Management
   ● Cloud computing and hybrid cloud solutions
   ● Service ecosystems and platform economies
   ● Collaboration systems and technologies
   ● Serverless computation and network-as-a-service models
   ● Data-, analytics, and -information-as-a-service
   ● X-as-a-service
6. Responsible innovation
   ● Digital government and smart city solutions
   ● Multichannel citizen engagement
   ● Ethical technology, trust, and data privacy
7. Intelligent Augmentation & Virtual Reality
   ● Virtual reality and gaming applications
   ● Augmented reality for education, healthcare, and tourism
   ● AR/VR for enhancing navigation and user experiences
8. Future of Work
   ● Human-machine partnership
   ● Real-time and immersive collaboration
   ● Digital workplace operations
   ● Optimizing the employee experience
   ● New roles and jobs for the future
   ● Lexicon of technology for diversity, inclusion, belonging
9. Emerging Information Technologies
   ● Quantum computing applications and advancements
   ● Edge AI and edge computing innovations
   ● Next-generation networking technologies
   ● Bioinformatics and computational biology

Submission Instructions

The detailed instructions for preparing your submission will be posted via link from the main HICSS site. Remember that our minitrack has a 3-page limit (the main instruction site mentions 10 pages). You do need to follow the HICSS formatting template, aside from the page length. 

Important Dates

June 15: Paper submission deadline

August 17: Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 4:   [Conditionally Accepted] Submission deadline for revised manuscript

September 10: [Conditionally Accepted] Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 22: Deadline for final manuscript submissions

October 1:      Author registration deadline

ISSIP Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Tayfun Keskin (Primary Contact)
University of Washington
keskin@uw.edu

Terri L. Griffith
Simon Fraser University
t@terrigriffith.com

David Ing
Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute
coevolving@gmail.com

Maggie Qian
Dell Technologies
maggiemq.ux@gmail.com