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 (up to US$5,000), and are invited to give a keynote speech.
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. The selection committee is composed of five members: the Steering Committee chair, two Program Committee members appointed by the Steering Committee chair, and the recipients of the last two years.
Laureates YearLaureate Institution2008Bernhard ThalheimKiel University, Germany2009David W. EmbleyBrigham Young University, USA2010John MylopoulosUniversity of Trento, Italy2011Tok Wang LingNational University of Singapore, Singapore2012Stefano SpaccapietraÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland2013Carlo BatiniUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Italy2014Antonio Luz FurtadoPontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2015 Il-Yeol SongDrexel University, USA2016Óscar PastorTechnical University of Valencia, Spain2017Yair WandUBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada2018Veda C. StoreyGeorgia State University, USA2019Eric YuUniversity of Toronto, Canada2020Matthias JarkeRWTH Aachen University, Germany2021Sudha RamUniversity of Arizona, USA2022Maurizio LenzeriniUniversità di Roma La Sapienza, Italy2023https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/data-and-knowledge-engineering/about/awards/peter-p-chen-award-2022Nicola GuarinoItaly2024Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria2025Ron WeberUniversity of Queensland, Australia2026Terry HalpinAustralia
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