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

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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.guizzardi at 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
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani> - "For her outstanding
contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_surface> 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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_abstraction>, fault
tolerance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance>, and distributed
computing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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)
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