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Schulich & York · Prior to 2020

By research area: Blockchain & DLT · Agentic & Explainable AI

Kim Henry M. and Divinus Oppong-Tawiah (2026). “When Generative Platforms Meet Functionally Separated Regulation: Cross-Pillar Generativity Tension in Canadian Stablecoins and Tokenized Real-World Assets,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Lisbon, Portugal, December 13-16. In-Preparation.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTIn-Review

Jeong, Anna Y., Henry M. Kim, and Jee-Hae Lim (2025). “Do Companies Make the World Better? Effect of Blockchain Adoption on a Firm’s Environmental and Social Performance,” Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 111-138.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Tara, Andrei, Hjalmar K. Turesson, Nicolae Natea, and Henry M. Kim (2023). “An Evaluation of Storage Alternatives for Service Interfaces Supporting a Decentralized AI Marketplace,” IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 116919-116931.

Blockchain & DLTAgentic & Explainable AIPublished

Jeong, Anna Y., Henry M. Kim, and Jee-Hae Lim (2023). “Do Companies Make the World Better? Effect of Blockchain Adoption on a Firm’s Environmental and Social Performance,” Special Forum Conference on The Digital Transformation of ESG Reporting, New York NY, December 1 – 2.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Silviana Tana, Marek Laskowski, Cheng Zhong, Aarushi Jain (2022). “Overcoming the Balkanization of Blockchain Research: Web3 is about Tokens AND Protocols AND Online Communities,” SIGBIT Workshop (ICIS), December 14, 2022 (Preprint - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4248958).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. (2024). “Can Stablecoins Actually Improve Financial Inclusion: Exploring the IT Affordances of Token-Based Digital Currencies,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-57), Honolulu, HI, January 3 – 6 (Preprint - https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4412527).

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. (2023). “Can Stablecoins Actually Improve Financial Inclusion: Exploring the IT Affordances of Token-Based Digital Currencies,” The Business of Blockchain Conference, Miami, FL, May 19 – 20 and Korean Association of Information Systems (KrAIS) Summer Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, July 5 – 6.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Chioda, Laura, Henry M. Kim, Rasa Karapandza and Miesha Williams (2023). Panel Discussion on “Pandemic Wealth and Digital Assets: An Exploration of Cryptocurrencies and Financial Inclusion,” University Blockchain Research Initiative Conference, Toronto, ON Canada, October 12 – 13.

Financial ServicesPublished

Hrabar, Oleksandr, Hossein Arshadi Soufiani, Henry M. Kim, Chien-Chih Joseph Chen, Ali Vazirizadeh, and Hjalmar Turesson (2027). “OreProof: Verifiable Provenance with Limited Disclosure for Critical-Minerals Supply Chains Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-60), Honolulu, HI, January 5 – 8. Submitted.

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTIn-Review

Mirmotalebi, Nava, Hossein Arshadi Soufiani, Henry M. Kim, Hjalmar Turesson (2026). “A Build-or-Buy AI Case in the Public Sector: Augmenting a Canadian Asset- Mapping Platform with LLM and Ontology Capabilities,” In-Preparation.

Supply ChainAgentic & Explainable AIIn-Preparation

Sengupta, Ushnish and Henry M. Kim (2021). “Meeting Changing Customer Requirements in Food and Agriculture Through Application of Blockchain Technology,” Frontiers in Blockchain, February (doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.613346).

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTPublished

Batista, Danielle, Hrvoje Stancic, Henry M. Kim, Chandana Unnithan, Victoria Lemieux (2021). “Blockchains and Provenance: How a technical system for tracing origins, ownership and authenticity can transform social trust,” In: Building Decentralized Trust: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Eds.: Lemieux, V. & Feng, C.), pg. 111-64. Springer (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54414-0).

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTPublished

Sengupta, Ushnish and Henry M. Kim (2020), “Business Process Transformation In Natural Resources Development Using Blockchain: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Trustless Technology, and Rebuilding Trust,” In: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Use Cases: Applications and Lessons Learned (Eds: Trebelmeier, H., Silaber, C., Clohessy, T.), Springer.

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTPublished

Arshadi Soufiani, Hossein, Henry M. Kim, Hjalmar Turesson, S. Arham Noman, and A. Setia (2027). “Detoxifying ToxicCommunications: A Design Science Approach to Responsible AI,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-60), Honolulu, HI, January 5 – 8. Submitted.

Agentic & Explainable AIIn-Review

Arshadi, Hossein and Henry M. Kim, (2026). “How to Develop More Functional and Future-Ready Digital Twins: Towards a Framework for Digital Twin Scope Evolution,” Information system Student Research Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 1-14.

Agentic & Explainable AIPublished

Sabbhet, Assma and Henry M. Kim, “Crypto Tumblers,” In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and DLT (Ed: Beck, R. & Slade, C. B.), pg. 56-9. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Arshadi, Hossein and Henry M. Kim (2025). “When Incentives Feel Different: A Prospect-Theoretic Approach to Ethereum’s Incentive Mechanism,” Electronics, Vol 14, Issue 24, pp. 4916.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Arshadi Soufiani, Hossein and Henry M. Kim (2025). “Enhancing Cybersecurity Threat Detection with Counterfactual Reasoning: A 'What-If' Ontology Approach Using Large Language Models,” Proceedings of the American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Montreal, Canada, August 14-16.

Agentic & Explainable AIPublished

Kim, Henry M. and Tom Baumann (2024). “Towards Ontology and Blockchain Based Measurement, Reporting, and Verification For Climate Action,” (Preprint - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3717389).

Blockchain & DLTIn-Review

Kim, Henry M., Hjalmar Turesson, Marek Laskowski, and Amir Fard Bahreini (2022). “Permissionless and Permissioned, Technology-Focused and Business Needs-Driven: Understanding the Hybrid Opportunity in Blockchain through a Case Study of Insolar,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 69, Issue 3, June, pp. 776-791 (Preprint - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423113).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Caudevilla, Oriol, and Henry M. Kim (2022). “The Digital Yuan and Cross-Border Payments: China’s Rollout of Its Central Bank Digital Currency.” A Blockchain Research Institute Light House Case Study, Aug. 2022.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Henry M. Kim (2022). “Blockchain: Too Intangible to Be Intangible or More Tangible Than Many Tangibles? UpNext: Digital Professional Development Magazine, CPA Ontario, March 2022.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Marek Laskowski, Michael Zargham, Hjalmar Turesson, Matt Barlin, and Danil Kabanov (2021). “Token Economics in Real-Life: Cryptocurrency and Incentives Design for Insolar Blockchain Network,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 72-80.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Evermann, Joerg and Henry M. Kim (2021). “Workflow Management on Proof-of-Work Blockchains - Implications and Recommendations,” SN Computer Science, Vol. 2, Article 44 (doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-00387-6).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Turesson, Hjalmar, Henry M. Kim, Marek Laskowski, and Alexandra Roatis (2021). “Privacy Preserving Data Mining as Proof of Useful Work: Exploring an AI/Blockchain Design,” Journal of Database Management, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-85 (doi.org/10.4018/JDM.2021010104).

Blockchain & DLTAgentic & Explainable AIPublished

Treiblmaier, Horst, Melanie Swan, Primavera de Filippi, Mary Lacity, Thomas Hardjono, and Henry M. Kim (2021). “What's Next in Blockchain Research? -An Identification of Key Topics Using a Multidisciplinary Perspective,” Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 27-52 (doi.org/10.1145/3447934.3447938).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Ushnish Sengupta, and Marek Laskowski (2021). “Business in the Front, Crypto in the Back: How to Be a Blockchain Startup in Finance,” International Review of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 117-36.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Aidan Brookson, Hjalmar Turesson, and Henry M. Kim (2021). “A Permissioned Blockchain System to Reduce Peak Demand in Residential Communities via Energy Trading: A Real-World Case Study,” IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 5517-5530 (doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3047885).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Hjalmar Turesson, and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems for Voltage Regulation in Active Distribution Networks,” IET Smart Grid, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 646-56 (doi.org/10.1049/iet-stg.2019.0286).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Evermann, Joerg and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Workflow Management on BFT Blockchains,” Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architecture, Vol. 15, pp. 14:1-22 (doi.org/10.18417/emisa.15.14).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Farookh Zandi, and Henry M. Kim (2020). “A Simple Macroeconomic Model of Decentralized Emission Markets Based on the Solow Growth Model,” Frontiers in Blockchain, May 5 (doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00018).

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Farookh Zandi, Henry M. Kim (2020). “A Discussion on Decentralization in Financial Industry and Monetary System,” In: Information for Efficient Decision Making: Big Data, Blockchain and Relevance (Eds.: Balachandran, K.R.), World Scientific Publishing (DOI: 10.1142/11833).

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Laskowski, Marek and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Blockchain Interoperability,” A Blockchain Research Institute Big Idea White Paper, Aug. 2020.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Karajovic, Maria, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2019). “Thinking Outside the Block: Projected Phases of Blockchain Integration in the Accounting Industry,” Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 319-330. [SSRN]

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Mehar, Muhammad Izhar, Charlie Shier, Alana Giambattista, Elgar Gong, Gabrielle Fletcher, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2019). “Understanding a Revolutionary and Flawed Grand Experiment in Blockchain: The DAO Attack,” Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 19-32. [SSRN]

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Anujan Raveenthiran, Justin Mukai, Ramisha Naeem, Arvin Dhuna, Zoha Parveen, and Henry M. Kim (2019). “The Regulation Paradox of Initial Coin Offerings: A Case Study Approach,” Frontiers in Blockchain, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April. [SSRN]

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Aidan Brookson, Hjalmar Turesson, Henry M. Kim (2019). “Design and Field Implementation of Blockchain Based Renewable Energy Trading in Residential Communities,” 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Doha, Qatar, November 19-21 (DOI: 10.1109/SGRE46976.2019.9020672).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. and Muhammad Izhar Mehar (2019). “Blockchain in Commercial Insurance,” A Blockchain Research Institute Light House Case Study, Nov. 2019.

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Jurjica, Oana, Adrienne Adjeleian, and Henry M. Kim (2019). “Breaking the Stagnant Spell: How Blockchain is Disrupting the Solar Energy Industry,” Technical Note on Integration and Trade Sector, Inter-American Development Bank.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Towards an Ontology-Driven Blockchain Design for Supply Chain Provenance”, Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pg. 18-27. [SSRN]. Awarded Paper of the Year for the Journal

Supply ChainFinancial ServicesBlockchain & DLTAgentic & Explainable AIPublished

Agrawal, Dhwani, Natalia Jureczek, Gajane Gopalakrishnan, Margaret Natalie Guzman, Michael McDonald, and Henry M. Kim (2018), "Loyalty Points on the Blockchain," Business and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 80-92. [SSRN]

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Lucena, Percival, Alecio P. D. Binotto, Fernanda da Silva Momo, and Henry M. Kim (2018). “A Case Study for Grain Quality Assurance Tracking based on a Blockchain Business Network,” Proceedings of the Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB 18), March 9, 2018, Los Angeles, CA.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Ning Nan, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Self-Organized Governance in Blockchain-based Tokenized Markets,” Proceedings of the Academy of Management Symposium on Coordination, Governance, and Trust: The Impact of Blockchain on Organizations, August 10-14, Chicago, IL.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. and Laskowski, Marek (2018), “Agriculture on the Blockchain,” In: D. Tapscott (Ed.), Supply Chain Revolution, Barrow Books.

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Bita Ghiasi, Max Spear, Marek Laskowski and Jiye Li (2017). “Online Serendipity: The Case for Curated Recommender Systems”, Business Horizons, Vol. 60, Issue 5, pp. 613-20.

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Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2017). “A Perspective on Blockchain Smart Contracts: Reducing Uncertainty and Complexity in Value Exchange,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Privacy, Security, Trust & Blockchain Technologies, August 3, Vancouver, BC.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Jackie Ho Nam Cheung, Marek Laskowski, and Iryna Gel (2016). “Data Analytics Using Ontologies of Management Theories: Towards Implementing ‘From Theory to Practice’,” Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse (IEEE IRI), July 28-30, Pittsburgh, PA.

Agentic & Explainable AIPublished

Laskowski, Marek and Henry M. Kim (2016). “Rapid Prototyping of a Text Mining Application For Cryptocurrency Market Intelligence,” Proceedings of the 5th International IEEE Workshop on Data Integration and Mining (DIM), July 28-30, Pittsburgh, PA.

Financial ServicesPublished

Kim, Henry M., Marek Laskowski, Seyed Moghadas, Amirehsan Sajad, and Maaz Asif (2014). “A Framework for Comparing Early Warning Systems across Domains: A Step Toward a Data-Integrated Public Health EWS,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop in Issues and Challenges in Social Computing – Social Media, Crowd Sourcing, and Public Health (WICSOC), August 14-16, San Francisco, CA.

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Nevo, Saggi, Dorit Nevo, and Henry M. Kim (2012). “From Recreational Applications to Workplace Technologies: An Empirical Study of Cross-Context IS Continuance in The Case of Virtual Worlds”, Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 27, No. 1, 74-86.

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Ali-Hassan, Hossam, Dorit Nevo, Henry M. Kim, and Stephen Perelgut (2011). “Organizational Social Computing and Employee Job Performance”, Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2011 (HICSS-44), January 4-7 Kauai, HI.

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Lyons, Kelly, Henry M. Kim, and Saggi Nevo (2010). “Paying attention in meetings: Multitasking in virtual worlds”, Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on the Personal Web.

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Kim, Henry M., Kelly Lyons, and Mary Ann Cunningham (2008). “Towards a Theoretically-Grounded Framework for Evaluating Immersive Business Models and Applications: Analysis of Ventures in Second Life”, Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Vol. 1, No. 1.

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Kim, Henry M. and Saggi Nevo (2008). “Development and Application of a Framework for Evaluating Multi-Mode Voting Risks”, Journal of Internet Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 121-35.

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Kim, Henry M., Kelly Lyons, and Mary Ann Cunningham (2008). “Towards a Framework for Evaluating Immersive Business Models: Evaluating Service Innovations in Second Life”, Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January 7-10, Big Island, HI.

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Kim, Henry M., (2008). “A Venture Capital Approach to IT and Services Innovation”, Proceedings of Service Science Management and Engineering Workshop at University of Alberta, March 6-7, Edmonton, AB Canada.

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Kim, Henry M., Arijit Sengupta, and Joerg Evermann (2007). “MOQ: Web Services Ontologies for QoS and General Quality Evaluations”, International Journal on Metadata Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 195-200.

Agentic & Explainable AIPublished

Kim, Henry M., Marks S. Fox, and Arijit  Sengupta (2007). “How To Build Enterprise Models to Achieve Compliance to Standards or Regulatory Requirements (and Share Data)”, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 105-28.

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Kim, Henry M. and Arijit Sengupta (2007). “Extracting Knowledge from XML Document Repository: A Semantic Web-Based Approach”, Information Technology and Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 205-21.

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Kim, Henry M., (2007). “Addressing the Services Science, Management, and Engineering Curriculum: Now and Future”, Proceedings of CASCON 2007 workshop of the Annual Conference of IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, October 23-24, Canada.

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Kim, Henry M. and Kelly Lyons (2007). “The Role of Complexity Science in the Evolution of the Services Science Discipline”, Proceedings of the 2007 DSI Services Science Mini-conference, May 24-26, Pittsburgh.

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Kim, Henry M.; Arijit Sengupta, Mark S. Fox, and Mehmet Dalkilic (2006). "A Measurement Ontology Generalizable for Emerging Domain Applications on the Semantic Web", Journal of Database Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 20-42.

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Wade, Michael, Markus Biehl, and Henry M. Kim (2006). “Information Systems Is/Isn't a Reference Discipline (And What We Can Do about It)”, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, No. 5, May, pp. 247-268.

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Wade, Michael, Markus Biehl, and Henry M. Kim (2006). "If the Tree of IS Knowledge Falls in a Forest, Will Anyone Hear?: A Commentary on Grover et al.", Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Vol. 7 No. 5, May, pp. 326-335.

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Biehl, Markus, Henry M. Kim, and Michael Wade (2006). “Relationships Among the Academic Business Disciplines: A Multi-Method Citation Analysis”, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 34, pp. 359.

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Nevo, Saggi and Henry M. Kim (2006), "How to Compare and Analyze Risks of Internet Voting Versus Other Modes of Voting", E-Government: An International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1-2.

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Sengupta, Arijit and Henry M. Kim (2006). “SWAP - A Framework for Ontology Support in Semantic Web Applications”, In: E.Y. Li, & T.C. Du (Eds.): Advances in Electronic Business, Vol. 2 Theme: Semantic Web and Intelligent Web Services.

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Kim, Henry M. and Markus Biehl (2005). “Exploiting the Small-Worlds of the Semantic Web to Connect Heterogeneous, Local Ontologies”, Information Technology and Management, Vol. 6, pp. 89-96.

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Kim, Henry M., Markus Biehl, and John A. Buzacott (2005). “M-CI2: Modelling Cyber Interdependencies between Critical Infrastructures”, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN '05), August 3-5, Perth, Australia.

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Kim, Henry M. (2005). “How to Compare and Analyze Risks of Internet Voting Versus Other Modes of Voting”, E-Government: An International Journal, Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Government (ICEG), October 3-4, Ottawa ON Canada.

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Kim, Henry M. and Rajani Ramkaran (2004). “Best Practices in E-process Management: Extending a Re-engineering Framework”, Business Process Management Journal. Vol. 10, No. 1., pp. 27-43

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Kim, Henry M. (2004). “Ontologies for the Semantic Web: Can Social Network Analysis Be Used to Develop Them?”, Bulletin of the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems, July, Vol. 1, No. 2.

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Biehl, Markus, and Henry M. Kim (2003). “Electronic Marketplaces versus Enterprise Resource Planning: A Comparison and Decision Methodology for Supply Chain Management”, International Journal of Technology and Policy Management, Vol. 3, No. 3/4, pp. 262-84.

Supply ChainPublished

Biehl, Markus, Henry M. Kim, and Michael Wade (2003). “A Decision Methodology for Comparing Similarities & Differences in Journals,” in: Kurt Engemann and George Lasker (Editors): Advances in Decision Technology and Intelligent Information Systems Vol. IV, pp. 26-30.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). "Predicting How Ontologies for The Semantic Web Will Evolve", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 48-54.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). “Enterprise Models of Measurement: A Comparison of Existing Models for Quality Management and E-Business”, Operational Research: An International Journal. Vol. 2, No. 1.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (2002). “Towards Quality Management Web Services: An Ontology of Measurement for Enterprise Modeling”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2348, pp. 230-44.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (2002). “Using Enterprise Reference Models for Automated ISO 9000 Compliance Evaluation”, Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), January 7-10, Big Island, HI.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). “XML-hoo!: A Prototype Application for Intelligent Query of XML Documents Using Domain-Specific Ontologies”, Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), January 7-10, Big Island, HI.

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Tham, K. Donald and Henry M. Kim (2002). “Towards Strategic Intelligence with Ontology Based Enterprise Modelling and ABC”, Proceedings of the International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 7-11, Las Vegas, NV.

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Kim, Henry M. and K. Donald Tham (2002). “Designing Business Processes and Communication Structures for E-Business Using Ontology-Based Enterprise Models with Mathematical Models”, In: Enterprise Information Systems IV, Kluwer, Netherlands, pp. 179-85.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Enabling Integrated Decision-Making for Electronic Commerce by Modelling an Enterprise's Sharable Knowledge”, Internet Research, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 418-25.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Integrating Business Process-Oriented and Data-Driven Approaches for Ontology Development”, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2000 - Bringing Knowledge to Business Processes, Stanford, CA, March 20-22, pp. 93-9.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Enabling E-Business by Modeling an Enterprise's Sharable Knowledge”, Proceedings of the 5th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, November 4-5, San Antonio, TX.

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Kim, Henry M., Mark S. Fox, and Michael Grüninger, (1999). “An Ontology for Quality Management: Enabling Quality Problem Identification and Tracing”, BT Technology Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 131-40.

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Kim, Henry M., Mark S. Fox, and Michael Grüninger (1995). “An Ontology of Quality for Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE). Berkeley Springs, WV, April 20-22, 1995, pp. 105-116.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (1994). “Formal Models of Quality and ISO 9000 Compliance”, Proceedings of the American Quality Congress (AQC) Conference, American Society for Quality Control, Las Vegas, NV, May 1994, pp. 17-23.

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Hrabar, Oleksandr, Hossein Arshadi Soufiani, Henry M. Kim, Chien-Chih Joseph Chen, Ali Vazirizadeh, and Hjalmar Turesson (2027). “OreProof: Verifiable Provenance with Limited Disclosure for Critical-Minerals Supply Chains Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-60), Honolulu, HI, January 5 – 8. Submitted.

Supply ChainBlockchain & DLTIn-Review

Kim Henry M. and Divinus Oppong-Tawiah (2026). “When Generative Platforms Meet Functionally Separated Regulation: Cross-Pillar Generativity Tension in Canadian Stablecoins and Tokenized Real-World Assets,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Lisbon, Portugal, December 13-16. In-Preparation.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTIn-Review

Sabbhet, Assma and Henry M. Kim, “Crypto Tumblers,” In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and DLT (Ed: Beck, R. & Slade, C. B.), pg. 56-9. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Jeong, Anna Y., Henry M. Kim, and Jee-Hae Lim (2025). “Do Companies Make the World Better? Effect of Blockchain Adoption on a Firm’s Environmental and Social Performance,” Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 111-138.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Arshadi, Hossein and Henry M. Kim (2025). “When Incentives Feel Different: A Prospect-Theoretic Approach to Ethereum’s Incentive Mechanism,” Electronics, Vol 14, Issue 24, pp. 4916.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. (2024). “Can Stablecoins Actually Improve Financial Inclusion: Exploring the IT Affordances of Token-Based Digital Currencies,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-57), Honolulu, HI, January 3 – 6 (Preprint - https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4412527).

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. and Tom Baumann (2024). “Towards Ontology and Blockchain Based Measurement, Reporting, and Verification For Climate Action,” (Preprint - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3717389).

Blockchain & DLTIn-Review

Tara, Andrei, Hjalmar K. Turesson, Nicolae Natea, and Henry M. Kim (2023). “An Evaluation of Storage Alternatives for Service Interfaces Supporting a Decentralized AI Marketplace,” IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 116919-116931.

Blockchain & DLTAgentic & Explainable AIPublished

Jeong, Anna Y., Henry M. Kim, and Jee-Hae Lim (2023). “Do Companies Make the World Better? Effect of Blockchain Adoption on a Firm’s Environmental and Social Performance,” Special Forum Conference on The Digital Transformation of ESG Reporting, New York NY, December 1 – 2.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M. (2023). “Can Stablecoins Actually Improve Financial Inclusion: Exploring the IT Affordances of Token-Based Digital Currencies,” The Business of Blockchain Conference, Miami, FL, May 19 – 20 and Korean Association of Information Systems (KrAIS) Summer Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, July 5 – 6.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Hjalmar Turesson, Marek Laskowski, and Amir Fard Bahreini (2022). “Permissionless and Permissioned, Technology-Focused and Business Needs-Driven: Understanding the Hybrid Opportunity in Blockchain through a Case Study of Insolar,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 69, Issue 3, June, pp. 776-791 (Preprint - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423113).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Silviana Tana, Marek Laskowski, Cheng Zhong, Aarushi Jain (2022). “Overcoming the Balkanization of Blockchain Research: Web3 is about Tokens AND Protocols AND Online Communities,” SIGBIT Workshop (ICIS), December 14, 2022 (Preprint - https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4248958).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Caudevilla, Oriol, and Henry M. Kim (2022). “The Digital Yuan and Cross-Border Payments: China’s Rollout of Its Central Bank Digital Currency.” A Blockchain Research Institute Light House Case Study, Aug. 2022.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Henry M. Kim (2022). “Blockchain: Too Intangible to Be Intangible or More Tangible Than Many Tangibles? UpNext: Digital Professional Development Magazine, CPA Ontario, March 2022.

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Kim, Henry M., Marek Laskowski, Michael Zargham, Hjalmar Turesson, Matt Barlin, and Danil Kabanov (2021). “Token Economics in Real-Life: Cryptocurrency and Incentives Design for Insolar Blockchain Network,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 72-80.

Financial ServicesBlockchain & DLTPublished

Evermann, Joerg and Henry M. Kim (2021). “Workflow Management on Proof-of-Work Blockchains - Implications and Recommendations,” SN Computer Science, Vol. 2, Article 44 (doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-00387-6).

Blockchain & DLTPublished

Turesson, Hjalmar, Henry M. Kim, Marek Laskowski, and Alexandra Roatis (2021). “Privacy Preserving Data Mining as Proof of Useful Work: Exploring an AI/Blockchain Design,” Journal of Database Management, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-85 (doi.org/10.4018/JDM.2021010104).

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Treiblmaier, Horst, Melanie Swan, Primavera de Filippi, Mary Lacity, Thomas Hardjono, and Henry M. Kim (2021). “What's Next in Blockchain Research? -An Identification of Key Topics Using a Multidisciplinary Perspective,” Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 27-52 (doi.org/10.1145/3447934.3447938).

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Sengupta, Ushnish and Henry M. Kim (2021). “Meeting Changing Customer Requirements in Food and Agriculture Through Application of Blockchain Technology,” Frontiers in Blockchain, February (doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.613346).

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Kim, Henry M., Ushnish Sengupta, and Marek Laskowski (2021). “Business in the Front, Crypto in the Back: How to Be a Blockchain Startup in Finance,” International Review of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 117-36.

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Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Aidan Brookson, Hjalmar Turesson, and Henry M. Kim (2021). “A Permissioned Blockchain System to Reduce Peak Demand in Residential Communities via Energy Trading: A Real-World Case Study,” IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 5517-5530 (doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3047885).

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Batista, Danielle, Hrvoje Stancic, Henry M. Kim, Chandana Unnithan, Victoria Lemieux (2021). “Blockchains and Provenance: How a technical system for tracing origins, ownership and authenticity can transform social trust,” In: Building Decentralized Trust: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Design of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (Eds.: Lemieux, V. & Feng, C.), pg. 111-64. Springer (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54414-0).

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Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Hjalmar Turesson, and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems for Voltage Regulation in Active Distribution Networks,” IET Smart Grid, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 646-56 (doi.org/10.1049/iet-stg.2019.0286).

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Evermann, Joerg and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Workflow Management on BFT Blockchains,” Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architecture, Vol. 15, pp. 14:1-22 (doi.org/10.18417/emisa.15.14).

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Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Farookh Zandi, and Henry M. Kim (2020). “A Simple Macroeconomic Model of Decentralized Emission Markets Based on the Solow Growth Model,” Frontiers in Blockchain, May 5 (doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00018).

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Sengupta, Ushnish and Henry M. Kim (2020), “Business Process Transformation In Natural Resources Development Using Blockchain: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Trustless Technology, and Rebuilding Trust,” In: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Use Cases: Applications and Lessons Learned (Eds: Trebelmeier, H., Silaber, C., Clohessy, T.), Springer.

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Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Farookh Zandi, Henry M. Kim (2020). “A Discussion on Decentralization in Financial Industry and Monetary System,” In: Information for Efficient Decision Making: Big Data, Blockchain and Relevance (Eds.: Balachandran, K.R.), World Scientific Publishing (DOI: 10.1142/11833).

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Laskowski, Marek and Henry M. Kim (2020). “Blockchain Interoperability,” A Blockchain Research Institute Big Idea White Paper, Aug. 2020.

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Karajovic, Maria, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2019). “Thinking Outside the Block: Projected Phases of Blockchain Integration in the Accounting Industry,” Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 319-330. [SSRN]

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Mehar, Muhammad Izhar, Charlie Shier, Alana Giambattista, Elgar Gong, Gabrielle Fletcher, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2019). “Understanding a Revolutionary and Flawed Grand Experiment in Blockchain: The DAO Attack,” Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 19-32. [SSRN]

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Zhang, Alfred Ruoxi, Anujan Raveenthiran, Justin Mukai, Ramisha Naeem, Arvin Dhuna, Zoha Parveen, and Henry M. Kim (2019). “The Regulation Paradox of Initial Coin Offerings: A Case Study Approach,” Frontiers in Blockchain, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April. [SSRN]

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Saxena, Shivam, Hany Farag, Aidan Brookson, Hjalmar Turesson, Henry M. Kim (2019). “Design and Field Implementation of Blockchain Based Renewable Energy Trading in Residential Communities,” 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Doha, Qatar, November 19-21 (DOI: 10.1109/SGRE46976.2019.9020672).

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Kim, Henry M. and Muhammad Izhar Mehar (2019). “Blockchain in Commercial Insurance,” A Blockchain Research Institute Light House Case Study, Nov. 2019.

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Jurjica, Oana, Adrienne Adjeleian, and Henry M. Kim (2019). “Breaking the Stagnant Spell: How Blockchain is Disrupting the Solar Energy Industry,” Technical Note on Integration and Trade Sector, Inter-American Development Bank.

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Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Towards an Ontology-Driven Blockchain Design for Supply Chain Provenance”, Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pg. 18-27. [SSRN]. Awarded Paper of the Year for the Journal

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Agrawal, Dhwani, Natalia Jureczek, Gajane Gopalakrishnan, Margaret Natalie Guzman, Michael McDonald, and Henry M. Kim (2018), "Loyalty Points on the Blockchain," Business and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 80-92. [SSRN]

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Lucena, Percival, Alecio P. D. Binotto, Fernanda da Silva Momo, and Henry M. Kim (2018). “A Case Study for Grain Quality Assurance Tracking based on a Blockchain Business Network,” Proceedings of the Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB 18), March 9, 2018, Los Angeles, CA.

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Ning Nan, Henry M. Kim, and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Self-Organized Governance in Blockchain-based Tokenized Markets,” Proceedings of the Academy of Management Symposium on Coordination, Governance, and Trust: The Impact of Blockchain on Organizations, August 10-14, Chicago, IL.

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Kim, Henry M. and Laskowski, Marek (2018), “Agriculture on the Blockchain,” In: D. Tapscott (Ed.), Supply Chain Revolution, Barrow Books.

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Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2017). “A Perspective on Blockchain Smart Contracts: Reducing Uncertainty and Complexity in Value Exchange,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Privacy, Security, Trust & Blockchain Technologies, August 3, Vancouver, BC.

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Arshadi Soufiani, Hossein, Henry M. Kim, Hjalmar Turesson, S. Arham Noman, and A. Setia (2027). “Detoxifying ToxicCommunications: A Design Science Approach to Responsible AI,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-60), Honolulu, HI, January 5 – 8. Submitted.

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Arshadi, Hossein and Henry M. Kim, (2026). “How to Develop More Functional and Future-Ready Digital Twins: Towards a Framework for Digital Twin Scope Evolution,” Information system Student Research Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 1-14.

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Mirmotalebi, Nava, Hossein Arshadi Soufiani, Henry M. Kim, Hjalmar Turesson (2026). “A Build-or-Buy AI Case in the Public Sector: Augmenting a Canadian Asset- Mapping Platform with LLM and Ontology Capabilities,” In-Preparation.

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Arshadi Soufiani, Hossein and Henry M. Kim (2025). “Enhancing Cybersecurity Threat Detection with Counterfactual Reasoning: A 'What-If' Ontology Approach Using Large Language Models,” Proceedings of the American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Montreal, Canada, August 14-16.

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Tara, Andrei, Hjalmar K. Turesson, Nicolae Natea, and Henry M. Kim (2023). “An Evaluation of Storage Alternatives for Service Interfaces Supporting a Decentralized AI Marketplace,” IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 116919-116931.

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Turesson, Hjalmar, Henry M. Kim, Marek Laskowski, and Alexandra Roatis (2021). “Privacy Preserving Data Mining as Proof of Useful Work: Exploring an AI/Blockchain Design,” Journal of Database Management, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-85 (doi.org/10.4018/JDM.2021010104).

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Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Towards an Ontology-Driven Blockchain Design for Supply Chain Provenance”, Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pg. 18-27. [SSRN]. Awarded Paper of the Year for the Journal

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Kim, Henry M., Jackie Ho Nam Cheung, Marek Laskowski, and Iryna Gel (2016). “Data Analytics Using Ontologies of Management Theories: Towards Implementing ‘From Theory to Practice’,” Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse (IEEE IRI), July 28-30, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Kim, Henry M., Arijit Sengupta, and Joerg Evermann (2007). “MOQ: Web Services Ontologies for QoS and General Quality Evaluations”, International Journal on Metadata Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 195-200.

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Kim, Henry M., Marks S. Fox, and Arijit  Sengupta (2007). “How To Build Enterprise Models to Achieve Compliance to Standards or Regulatory Requirements (and Share Data)”, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 105-28.

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Kim, Henry M. and Arijit Sengupta (2007). “Extracting Knowledge from XML Document Repository: A Semantic Web-Based Approach”, Information Technology and Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 205-21.

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Kim, Henry M.; Arijit Sengupta, Mark S. Fox, and Mehmet Dalkilic (2006). "A Measurement Ontology Generalizable for Emerging Domain Applications on the Semantic Web", Journal of Database Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 20-42.

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Sengupta, Arijit and Henry M. Kim (2006). “SWAP - A Framework for Ontology Support in Semantic Web Applications”, In: E.Y. Li, & T.C. Du (Eds.): Advances in Electronic Business, Vol. 2 Theme: Semantic Web and Intelligent Web Services.

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Kim, Henry M. and Markus Biehl (2005). “Exploiting the Small-Worlds of the Semantic Web to Connect Heterogeneous, Local Ontologies”, Information Technology and Management, Vol. 6, pp. 89-96.

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Kim, Henry M., Markus Biehl, and John A. Buzacott (2005). “M-CI2: Modelling Cyber Interdependencies between Critical Infrastructures”, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN '05), August 3-5, Perth, Australia.

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Kim, Henry M. (2004). “Ontologies for the Semantic Web: Can Social Network Analysis Be Used to Develop Them?”, Bulletin of the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems, July, Vol. 1, No. 2.

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Biehl, Markus, Henry M. Kim, and Michael Wade (2003). “A Decision Methodology for Comparing Similarities & Differences in Journals,” in: Kurt Engemann and George Lasker (Editors): Advances in Decision Technology and Intelligent Information Systems Vol. IV, pp. 26-30.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). "Predicting How Ontologies for The Semantic Web Will Evolve", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 48-54.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). “Enterprise Models of Measurement: A Comparison of Existing Models for Quality Management and E-Business”, Operational Research: An International Journal. Vol. 2, No. 1.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (2002). “Towards Quality Management Web Services: An Ontology of Measurement for Enterprise Modeling”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2348, pp. 230-44.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (2002). “Using Enterprise Reference Models for Automated ISO 9000 Compliance Evaluation”, Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), January 7-10, Big Island, HI.

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Kim, Henry M. (2002). “XML-hoo!: A Prototype Application for Intelligent Query of XML Documents Using Domain-Specific Ontologies”, Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), January 7-10, Big Island, HI.

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Tham, K. Donald and Henry M. Kim (2002). “Towards Strategic Intelligence with Ontology Based Enterprise Modelling and ABC”, Proceedings of the International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 7-11, Las Vegas, NV.

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Kim, Henry M. and K. Donald Tham (2002). “Designing Business Processes and Communication Structures for E-Business Using Ontology-Based Enterprise Models with Mathematical Models”, In: Enterprise Information Systems IV, Kluwer, Netherlands, pp. 179-85.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Enabling Integrated Decision-Making for Electronic Commerce by Modelling an Enterprise's Sharable Knowledge”, Internet Research, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 418-25.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Integrating Business Process-Oriented and Data-Driven Approaches for Ontology Development”, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2000 - Bringing Knowledge to Business Processes, Stanford, CA, March 20-22, pp. 93-9.

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Kim, Henry M. (2000). “Enabling E-Business by Modeling an Enterprise's Sharable Knowledge”, Proceedings of the 5th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, November 4-5, San Antonio, TX.

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Kim, Henry M., Mark S. Fox, and Michael Grüninger, (1999). “An Ontology for Quality Management: Enabling Quality Problem Identification and Tracing”, BT Technology Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 131-40.

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Kim, Henry M., Mark S. Fox, and Michael Grüninger (1995). “An Ontology of Quality for Enterprise Modelling”, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE). Berkeley Springs, WV, April 20-22, 1995, pp. 105-116.

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Kim, Henry M. and Mark S. Fox (1994). “Formal Models of Quality and ISO 9000 Compliance”, Proceedings of the American Quality Congress (AQC) Conference, American Society for Quality Control, Las Vegas, NV, May 1994, pp. 17-23.

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