Peter P. Chen Award

Peter P. Chen Award is an annually presented award to honor one individual for their contributions to the field of conceptual modeling. Named after the computer scientist Peter Chen, the award was started in 2008 by the publisher Elsevier as a means of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal Data & Knowledge Engineering. It is presented at the Entity Relationship (ER) International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Winners are given a plaque, a cash prize, and are invited to give a keynote speech.[1]

Peter P. Chen Award
Awarded forFor outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling
Presented byElsevier
First awarded2008
WebsitePeter P. Chen Award

There are five criteria for selecting the winner; research, how the nominee has contributed to advance the field of conceptual modeling; service, organizational contributions for related meetings, conferences, and editorial boards; education, mentoring of doctoral students in the field; contribution to practice, contributions to technology transfer, commercialization, and industrial projects; and international reputation.[2] The selection committee is composed of the Steering Committee chair, two Program Committee members that have been appointed by the Steering Committee chair, and recipients of the last two years.[3]

Laureates
Year Laureate Institution
2008 Bernhard Thalheim University of Kiel, Germany
2009 David W. Embley Brigham Young University, USA
2010 John Mylopoulos University of Trento, Italy
2011 Tok Wang Ling National University of Singapore, Singapore
2012 Stefano Spaccapietra École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2013 Carlo Batini University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2014 Antonio Luz Furtado Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA
2016 Óscar Pastor Technical University of Valencia, Spain
2017 Yair Wand UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada
2018 Veda C. Storey Georgia State University, USA
2019 Eric Yu University of Toronto, Canada
2020 Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University, Germany

References
  1. "Peter P. Chen award 2018". Elsevier. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  2. "Conceptual Modeling". Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  3. "Peter P. Chen Award". Elsevier. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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