[AISWorld] Call for Nominations: 2015 Peter P. Chen Award

[Stephen W. Liddle]

Call for Nominations for 2015 Peter P. Chen Award

On behalf of the ER Institute and the ER Steering Committee, we are pleased
to
solicit nominations for the 2015 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 $2500 sponsored by Elsevier Publishing
Company.

The selection process is done according to the following five criteria:
* 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 winners of the Peter P. Chen Award are:

2014 Antonio L. Furtado, Pontificia Univ. 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 Trento, Italy
2009 David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
2008 Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany

Nominations should be sent by May 4, 2015 to the ER Steering Committee
Chair,
Stephen Liddle [liddle at byu.edu], who will manage the selection process.
Each nomination should be accompanied by a summary statement about the
nominee
and a justification for the nomination.  Based on the criteria for the
award,
the selection committee will select the best candidate among the nominees.

The winner will be announced immediately after selection.  The award winner
will be invited to be a keynote speaker at the ER conference.  (This year,
the
ER conference will be held October 19-22, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden,
http://er2015.dsv.su.se/).

The selection committee consists of past recipients of the Peter P. Chen
Award
and members of the ER Steering Committee.  This year's committee consists of
Stephen Liddle, Antonio Furtado, Carlo Batini, Tok Wang Ling, and David
Embley.
Selection committee members are not eligible for the award.  If a member of
the
selection committee is nominated, the nominated person must withdraw from
the
selection committee or withdraw from the candidate pool.

More information about this award can be found at
http://conceptualmodeling.org.