[AISWorld] Recipient of the 2024 Peter P. Chen Award

[Parsons, Jeffrey]

The Steering Committee of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (the ER conference) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Peter P. Chen Award: Heinrich Mayr,  Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria.



Initiated by Elsevier in 2008, the Peter P. Chen Award honors one person each year for his or her outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling.  The recipient will receive a plaque and a prize of $2,500 sponsored by Elsevier Publishing Company.



Heinrich Mayr research and contributions to applications have been well-established over a long and illustrious career.  His service to the conceptual modeling community has been exemplary; he has been active at the highest levels at the ER conference (twice serving as Steering Committee chair) and in many other respects.  He has mentored numerous students who are now established and recognized researchers.



The 202 selection committee consisted of Jeffrey Parsons (Canada, Chair), Nicola Guarino (Italy), Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy), Oscar Pastor (Spain), and Jolita Ralyte (Switzerland).



Previous winners of the Peter P. Chen Award:



2023 Nicola Guarino, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), Italy

2022 Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

2021 Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA

2020 Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2019 Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

2018 Veda C. 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 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