Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Russell Belk (2024). "Apples, Oranges, and Self", Journal of Marketing Management, 40(7–8), 569–578.

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Abstract Extending Thompson’s discussion of the extended self, I contrast his view if the I Self (in William James’ terms) with my focus on James’ Me Self. I go on to discuss the Aggregate Self, the Digital Self, and various concepts of plural selves and cultural differences. Thompson’s introduction of distributed self fits nicely here and further expands the discussion of self. I introduce the concept of the Extended Object and briefly examine thanobots and AI and the way they may affect our concepts of self in the future.

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

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Abstract Given the exploding interest in generative AI and the concern that a few companies like Microsoft will monopolize access to such models, we address this centralization risk in the context of a DApp that matches buyers and sellers of various AI services. A key question for a decentralized marketplace is where and how to store the metadata that specifies the services’ properties in human and machine-readable formats. Having one or a few actors controlling access to that data constitutes undesirable centralization. We explore data storage alternatives to ensure decentralization, equitable match-making, and efficiency. Classifying decentralized storage alternatives as simple peer-to-peer replication, replication governed by a permissionless consensus, and replication governed by a private consensus, we select an exemplar for each category: IPFS, Tendermint Cosmos and Hyperledger Fabric. We conduct experiments on performance and find that read and write speeds are fastest for IPFS, about two times slower for Tendermint and slowest for Hyperledger. Writing using IPFS and Tendermint takes significantly longer than reading, and finally, specifically with IPFS, write speeds strongly depend on configuration. Given these results and the properties of the storage technologies, we conclude that simple peer-to-peer storage is the best option for the proposed AI marketplace.

Kim, Henry M. and Tom Baumann (2022). "Towards Ontology and Blockchain Based Measurement, Reporting, and Verification For Climate Action", Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

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Abstract Efforts that incentivize GHG emissions reduction are hampered by inability to transparently and uniformly account for impact. The UN has espoused blockchain’s potential to address transparency, and novel Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems that constitute the state-of-the-art in using blockchain to address this need. However, positive effect is diluted without sufficient uniformity: Different blockchains idiosyncratically reporting carbon credits based on differing standards does not constitute a solution. In this paper, we specify a top-level architecture that uses Semantic Web ontologies to complement a blockchain-based, transparent, uniform (sharable) MRV system. Our design conceptualizes transforming “smart standards” designed and harmonized using IT into ontologies of quantification methodologies and verification standards, which in turn can be used develop smart contracts executable on, and interoperable between, different blockchains. We pose this within the context of the real-life Reciclo Orgánicos project, an international collaboration to reduce GHG emissions from Chile’s municipal waste sector.