[AISWorld] [Reminder] Call for nominations - 2022 Peter P. Chen Award

[Isabelle WATTIAU]

On behalf of the ER Institute and the ER Steering Committee, I am sending
this message to solicit nominations for the 2022 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.

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.

According to our rules, the committee of the award is composed of:
- the ER Steering Committee Chair: Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau
- two ER Steering Committee members appointed by the ER Steering Committee
chair: Paul Johannesson and Hui Ma,
- the previous two years' recipients: Matthias Jarke and Sudha Ram.

The previous winners of the Peter P. Chen Award are:
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 *June 15th, 2022* to the ER Steering Committee Chair
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau [w <carson.woo at sauder.ubc.ca>attiau at essec.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. 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 2022 in Hyderabad, India.

Regards,
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau
ER Steering Committee Chair