Henry M. Kim

York University · Schulich School of Business

In spring 2016, the Distributed Autonomous Organization (The DAO) was created on Ethereum. As with Bitcoin, Ethereum uses a P2P network, where distributed ledgers are implemented as daisy-chained blocks of data. Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, Ethers are spent to execute pieces of code called smart contracts. Investors paid their Ethers for the D...

The study of setting up cryptocurrency incentive mechanisms and operationalizing governance is called token economics. Given the US$250 billion market cap for cryptocurrencies, there is compelling need to investigate it. In this article, we present facets of the token engineering process for a Swiss blockchain startup.

Blockchains can be public, permissionless networks implementing novel cryptocurrency-based technology features or permissioned, interorganizational networks championed by industry consortia. Some ventures operationalize a hybrid of these two network types to enhance adoption of their blockchain platforms by broadening their base of stakeholders or...

We present a methodology for evidence based design of cryptoeconomic systems, and elucidate a real-world example of how this methodology was used in the design of a blockchain network. This work provides a rare insight into the application of Data Science and Stochastic Simulation and Modelling to Token Engineering. We demonstrate how the described...

The cryptocurrency market is valued in excess of $250 billion. Virtually all these ventures employ cryptocurrencies to incentivize adoption and use of their blockchain-based platforms. For Bitcoin, miners are incentivized to mitigate the double spend problem; for Ethereum, to operate a distributed application development platform. The study of how...

This paper aims to propound a thorough and circumspect analysis of the implications of blockchain technology in the accounting profession and its broader industry. The analysis begins with a summary of early developments by first movers and how they are harnessing blockchain technology to improve business practices. Concomitantly, the paper will go...

In spring 2016, the Distributed Autonomous Organization (The DAO) was created on Ethereum. As with Bitcoin, Ethereum uses a P2P network, where distributed ledgers are implemented as daisy-chained blocks of data. Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, Ethers are spent to execute pieces of code called smart contracts. Investors paid their Ethers for the D...

An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods (e.g., tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods) has often not been possible with today's items that are produced and transported in complex, interorganizational,...

At the beginning of 2018, there is a growing belief that blockchain technologies constitute a revolutionary innovation in how we transfer value electronically. In that vein, blockchain may be a suitable complement to ontologies to achieve a big part of the vision of the semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee. We believe that if this complementarity is to...

At the beginning of 2018, there is a growing belief that blockchain technologies constitute a revolutionary innovation in how we transfer value electronically. In that vein, blockchain may be a suitable complement to ontologies to achieve a big part of the vision of the semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee. We believe that if this complementarity is to...

When used effectively, recommender systems provide users with suggestions based on their own preferences. These systems first showed their value with e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay, which provided recommendations algorithmically. A key drawback of these systems is that some items need personal touch recommendations to spur on purchase, use,...

Blockchain represents a technology for establishing a shared, immutable version of the truth between a network of participants that do not trust one another, and therefore has the potential to disrupt any financial or other industries that rely on third-parties to establish trust. Recent trends in computing including: prevalence of Free and Open So...

An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods--e.g. tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods--has often not been possible with today's items that are produced and transported in complex, inter-organizational,...

An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods--e.g. tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods--has often not been possible with today's items that are produced and transported in complex, inter-organizational,...

Blockchain represents a technology for establishing a shared, immutable version of the truth between a network of participants that do not trust one another, and therefore has the potential to disrupt any financial or other industries that rely on third-parties to establish trust. Recent trends in computing including: prevalence of Free and Open So...

An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods-e.g. tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods-has often not been possible with today's items that are produced and transported in complex, inter-organizational, o...

Blockchain represents a technology for establishing a shared, immutable version of the truth between a network of participants that do not trust one another, and therefore has the potential to disrupt any financial or other industries that rely on third-parties to establish trust. Recent trends in computing including: prevalence of Free and Open So...

We explore how computational ontologies can be impactful vis-à-vis the developing discipline of " data science. " We posit an approach wherein management theories are represented as formal axioms, and then applied to draw inferences about data that reside in corporate databases. That is, management theories would be implemented as rules within a da...

Recommender systems are effectively used to provide users with suggestions based on their preferences, and first showed their value in e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay that algorithmically provided recommendations. A key drawback with these systems is that some items need “personal touch” recommendations to spur on purchase, use, or consumptio...

Although three-dimensional, immersive virtual worlds, such as Active Worlds, Second Life, and Teleplace have been in existence for several years, their organizational use is rather limited. This paper posits, perhaps counter intuitively, that the diffusion of virtual worlds within organizations could be enhanced by their recreational usage. This ar...

This paper presents an empirical study investigating the impact of organizational social computing on employees' innovative and in-role job performance. Specifically, we suggest that two key uses of social computing, representing the use of social computing tools for maintaining social relations and for generating and sharing content, are positivel...

This article introduces a measurement ontology for applications to Semantic Web applications, specifically for emerging domains such as microarray analysis. The Semantic Web is thenext-generation Web of structured data that are automatically shared by software agents, which apply definitions and constraints organized in ontologies to correctly proc...

Second Life has emerged as the de facto virtual world for immersive business. However there is no de facto guideline or even corpus of knowledge about how to build an immersive business. We address this opportunity by presenting work that will lead to a theoretically-grounded evaluative framework for immersive business models and applications. We i...

Virtual worlds may be enabling technologies for the next generation of business models, practices and innovations in service. We situate our research within the field of service science and aim to evaluate service innovations. Because of Second Life's visibility as the de facto virtual world for commerce, we apply an immersive business evaluation f...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the risks associated with online voting and to compare them with more traditional voting modes. Design/methodology/approach – A modified version of the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE) approach from the CERT Coordination Center® at Carnegie-Mellon Unive...

This paper introduces a measurement ontology for applications to semantic Web applications, specifically for emerging domains such as microarray analysis. The semantic Web is the next-generation Web of structured data that are automatically shared by software agents, which apply definitions and constraints organized in ontologies to correctly proce...

XML plays an important role as the standard language for representing structured data for the traditional Web, and hence many Web-based knowledge management repositories store data and documents in XML. If semantics about the data are formally represented in an ontology, then it is possible to extract knowledge: This is done as ontology definitions...

Sharing data between organizations is challenging because it is difficult to ensure that those consuming the data accurately interpret it. The promise of the next generation WWW, the semantic Web, is that semantics about shared data will be represented in ontologies and available for automatic and accurate machine processing of data. Thus, there is...

When describing web services, one of the obvious aspects that need representing is 'Quality of Service' (QoS), the capability of a web service to meet an acceptable level of service as per factors such as availability and accessibility. However, too much of a focus on developing functional QoS ontologies has led to an over-emphasis on representing...

This paper introduces a measurement ontology for applications to semantic Web applications, specifically for emerging domains such as microarray analysis. The semantic Web is the next-generation Web of structured data that are automatically shared by software agents, which apply definitions and constraints organized in ontologies to correctly proce...

Internet voting (I-voting) has been very topical and it has been used in elections in North America, Europe and elsewhere. The advantages of its use include increased participation from infirmed, elderly and itinerant voters and quicker vote tabulation. Its disadvantages stem from the inherent lack of control and transparency from allowing votes fr...

For Canadians, recent events such as the Ontario/US power blackout of 2003 and the SAKS scare highlight the importance of protection of infrastructure of critical information networks, utilities, and services. Of particular interest are "cyber" interdependencies between infrastructures; that is, those situations in which national and international...

In this paper, a parallel is drawn between the semantic Web search problem of software agents finding the right ontology definition to how people are able to find strangers using a surprisingly short chain of acquaintances – a result from the six degrees of separation experiment. The experiment relied on shared understanding of the phrase, someone...

In formulating e-business strategies enabled by the Internet and WWW, parallels can be drawn from the viewpoint on process enabled by desktop and centralized computing in the 1990s, and that of present day. In this paper, the cornerstone of 1990s thinking on process, Hammer and Champy's nine best practices, are analyzed to apply for e-business proc...

Though the WWW is used for business process automation to lower costs and shorten leadtimes, arguably its use has been limited for another metric of business success: Improving quality. A promising advancement to the WWW is the development of the Semantic Web, which relies upon using machine process-able domain knowledge represented in ontologies....

A computational enterprise model representing key facets of are organization care be are effective tool to consider where planning are enterprise information architecture. For example, a specific organization's quality management business processes and organizational structures can be represented using such a model, and then compared to a reference...

Use of XML holds great promise for standardizing data models for realizing benefits such as lowered development costs and tune for integrating inter-organizational business processes and inter-organizational knowledge management. Further benefits can be realized by formally defining common semantics in ontologies using the standardized models. Auto...

To bring benefits of e-business to bear for knowledge intensive quality management business processes, ‘quality’ must be modeled within the enterprise model used for e-business. Fundamental to modeling quality is measurement; quality cannot be assessed until it is first measured. In this paper, enterprise models of measurement are surveyed, with em...

Organizations are apprehensive about developing e-business systems because the endeavor is novel. If e- business is considered as the conduct of business using the Internet—a network of networks —then e- business systems design can be represented as a network design problem. This paper outlines an approach for analysis and design of business proces...

A key benefit of advances in information technology has been the increased ability to make decisions that integrate different perspectives. Enterprise resource planning software integrates information from traditionally disparate parts of the same organization. Search engines and Internet services allow a user to integrate information from sources...

A knowledge management system must support the integration of information from disparate sources, wherein a decision maker manipulates information that someone else conceptualised and represented. So the system must minimise ambiguity and imprecision in interpreting shared information. This can be achieved by representing the shared information usi...

The TOVE Quality Ontology-VB is the formal representation (using First-order Logic) of terms, relationships, attributes, and axioms about quality which are generic beyond any specific quality domain. The assumption that quality is 'conformance to requirements' is used to decompose the quality domain into domains of measurement, identification, and...

Although there are many quality domains in which ideas and concepts about quality are represented, these representations are often informal. The TOVE Quality Ontology is the formal representation (using first-order logic) of terms, relationships, and axioms about quality which are generic beyond any specific quality domain. The assumption that qual...

this paper, a formal approach is taken to organize the body of knowledge about quality. The body of knowledge thus formalized is structured into: TOVE Quality Ontology, and the ISO 9003 Micro-Theory. The TOVE Quality Ontology represents a prototype formalization, researched from ISO 9000 and other quality management references, but independent of a...

Consider e-business as the conduct of business using the Internet—a network of networks. Then models of business networks, namely business processes and communications structures, can be used for e-business systems design. In the research effort outlined in this paper, e-business best practices and design principles are expressed axiomatically usin...

According to Tim-Berners Lee, the inventor of the WWW, a semantic Web in which software agents find meanings of terms that describe tasks it performs is the next progression of the Web. Ontologies as repositories of these machine-interpretable meanings are key to his vision. However, ontologies are distributed and not, and will likely never, be cen...

What a company needs to know about its business environment ( i.e., its activities, resources, markets, customers, products, services and costs) to plan for its current and future successful functioning needs to be disseminated organization-wide. One of the basic challenges for senior management is creating a mindset about the present and the futur...