June paper on 'Modular Service Structures for the Successful Design of Flexible Customer Journeys for AI Services and Business Models – Orchestration and Interplay of Services'

by Abdul Rauf Khan, Mohamed Zaki, Henrik Schiøler, and Murat Kulahci. The paper was accepted at 'The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)', a leading international conference in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). In this paper, Mohamed and co-authors propose a novel strategy for data mining based on partitioning of the feature space through Voronoi tessellation and Genetic Algorithm, where the latter is applied to solve a combinatorial optimization problem.

Mohamed Zaki and Andy Neely had a paper accepted for publication in the Production Planning and Control - Zaki, M. E., Theodoulidis, B., Shapira, P., Neely, A. D., & Tepel, M. Redistributed Manufacturing and the Impact of Big Data: A Consumer Goods Perspective. Production Planning and Control https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13779

In this paper, Ornella and Andy present the validation of a revised conceptual framework of ‘service transition’ that re-interprets the adoption of advanced services by manufacturing firms as a progressive expansion, rather than a shift or migration, of the offering.

Tim Pearce will be attending the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018). Tim is also attending a workshop, part of the conference, and presenting his work on 'Bayesian Inference with Anchored Ensembles of Neural Networks, and Application to Reinforcement Learning'.

April paper on 'How Can Hackathons Accelerate Corporate Innovation?' by Myrna Flores, Matic Golob, Doroteja Maklin, Martin Herrera, Christopher Tucci, Ahmed Al-Ashaab, Leon Williams, Adriana Encinas, Veronica Martinez, Mohamed Zaki, Lourdes Sosa & Karina Flores Pineda

March paper on 'A Service Network Perspective to Evaluate Service Matching in Early Design' by Federico Barravecchia, Fiorenzo Franceschini, Luca Mastrogiacomo

December 2017 Paper by Ornella Benedettini and Andy Neely on 'Does buyers’ dependen­­ce translate into financial performance? An empirical analysis of manufacturer-service provider relationships­­'

November Paper by Mariam H. Ismail, Mohamed Khater, Mohamed Zaki on 'Digital Business Transformation and Strategy: What do we know so far?'

The October Monthly Paper from the Cambridge Service Alliance, on 'Big Data Analytics Architecture for Businesses, by Mert Onuralp Gökalp, Kerem Kayabay, Mohamed Zaki, Altan Koçyiğit, P. Erhan Eren, and Andy Neely