[ER'25] Call for Nominations for the 2025 Peter P. Chen Award

[Selma k]

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Nominations for the 2025 Peter P. Chen Award.

On behalf of the ER Institute and the ER Steering Committee, I am soliciting nominations for the 2025 Peter P. Chen Award.

 

Initiated by Elsevier in 2008 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering, the Peter P. Chen Award honors one person each year for his or her outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling. The winner will receive a plaque and a prize of $5000 sponsored by Elsevier Publishing Company - part of this cash prize is meant to support the

participation of the laureate at ER to deliver a keynote speech.  

Formally, these are the criteria for the Award:

 

• Research: how well the nominee has helped advance the field of conceptual modeling with his/her intellectual contributions.
• Service: participation in the organization of conceptual-modeling-related meetings and conferences and participation in editorial boards of conceptual-modeling-related journals.
• Education: how effectively the nominee has mentored doctoral students in conceptual modeling, produced researchers from their labs, and also helped mentor young people in the field
• Contribution to practice: the extent to which the nominee has contributed to technology transfer, commercialization, and industrial projects.
• International reputation: the extent to which the nominee's work is visible to and has diffused into the international community.

 

Previous Peter P. Chen Award laureates are:

 

2024: Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

2023: Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy

2022: Maurizio Lenzerini, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

2021: Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA

2020: Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2019: Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

2018: Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA

2017: Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada

2016: Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

2015: Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA

2014: Antonio Luz Furtado, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013: Carlo Batini, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

2012: Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

2011: Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2010: John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

2009: David Embley, BYU, USA

2008: Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany

 

Nominations should be sent by Friday, June 20th, 2024 to the ER Steering Committee Chair Giancarlo Guizzardi [g.gui...@utwente.nl] who will manage the selection process.

 

Each nomination should be accompanied by a summary statement about the nominee and a justification for the nomination. We highlight that the Peter Chen Award is the highest honour granted by the Conceptual Modeling community. As such, the laureates are individuals with clear, substantive and potentially transformative contributions to the field - ideally contributions that can be captured by statements in the style of other top-honors (e.g., Maryam Mirzakhani - "For her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces” or Barbara Liskov – “For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing").

 

Based on the criteria for the award and on the case made for the nomination, the selection committee will select the best candidate among the nominees. Selection committee members and the ER Steering Committee chair are not eligible for the award.

 

The winner will be immediately announced after selection. The award winner will be invited to be a keynote speaker at ER 2025 in Poitiers, France in October (https://er2025.ensma.fr/).

 

Regards,

 

Giancarlo Guizzardi 

(ER Steering Committee Chair)