Characterizing the Field of Conceptual Modeling 2019 (Castro Alves Room)
CCM 2019 will be a hands-on, interactive workshop where (1) you can learn about how others characterize research in the field of conceptual modeling, and (2) you can contribute to the effort to improve the techniques we use for such characterization. Join us to help explore approaches to describing, comparing, and categorizing conceptual modeling research. See where your research fits, and help others characterize your work accurately. This is the third in a series of interactive workshops started at ER2017.
The field of conceptual modeling has a deep history based on decades of research contributions. It has been influenced by many disciplines including programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering, database systems, and, more recently, philosophy particularly through the work on ontologies. Conceptual modeling has also been applied in a wide range of domains and with a wide variety of purposes.
The goal of this workshop is to contribute to the articulation of the breadth and depth of conceptual modeling research. The benefits of such an articulation include:
- Provide for a precise description of the contributions of conceptual modeling research efforts. This would allow researchers to place their work in the field—using a standard framework and standard terminology. And, if widely adopted, this would promote more effective search of the conceptual modeling literature.
- Facilitate the comparison of various contributions in conceptual modeling research.
- Acknowledge the ways in which various disciplines have contributed to the field.
- Promote the recognition of the contributions of the conceptual modeling research community within the computing disciplines.
- Encourage discussion of current and future directions of conceptual modeling research.
Topics of Interest
- Significant analysis, including content analysis, of conceptual modeling research. This may result in a new or extended framework, characterization, taxonomy, lineage, or similar knowledge structure that describes (some part) of the body of work on conceptual modeling.
- Insightful evaluation, critique, comparison, or other evaluation of existing knowledge structures that have been used to describe (some part) of the body of work on conceptual modeling.
- A case study using one or more knowledge structures that describe conceptual modeling.
- A position paper that contributes important considerations or that highlights ideas (perhaps from other fields) that would advance the goal of being able to characterize conceptual modeling research.
Workshop Organizers
Lois M. L. Delcambre: She is Professor Emerita of Computer Science at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA. She received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 1982. She has supervised 21 PhD students, has published more than 35 journal papers and more than 100 conference papers. She was named an ER fellow in 2016, an honor given to selected individuals in the conceptual-modeling community in recognition of their contributions to ER research, ER education, and ER community service. In 2013, she received the George C. Hoffman Award for Faculty Excellence, Portland State University in recognition of distinguished contributions to the University in the areas of instruction, university service, and scholarship which are done in the spirit of humanism, civility, and collegiality with particular dedication to students and loyalty to the University.
Stephen W. Liddle: He received his PhD in computer science in 1995, at which time he joined the information systems faculty at Brigham Young University. Liddle has been involved in organizing and supporting workshops and conferences since the early 1990’s. He has been a major contributor to the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling for more than two decades, which he has served as program co-chair, member of numerous program committees, and as the organizer and/or program chair or program committee member for numerous workshops as well. Liddle is a long-time member and past chair of the ER Steering Committee, where he currently serves as treasurer. He is a full professor in the Information Systems Department at BYU and is academic director of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Liddle also holds the J Owen Cherrington professorship.
Oscar Pastor: Oscar Pastor is Full Professor and Director of the “Centro de Investigación en Métodosde Producción de Software (PROS)” at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in 1992. He was a researcher at HP Labs, Bristol, UK. Supervisor of 20 completed PhD theses and 31 completed Masters theses on topics that relate to Conceptual Modeling, he has published more than three hundred research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry, and been keynote speaker at several conferences and workshops.
Veda C. Storey: Veda C. Storey is Full Professor of Computer Information Systems and professor of computer science at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Her research interests are in intelligent information systems, data management, conceptual modeling, and design science research. Dr. Storey is a member of the Association for Information Systems College of Senior Scholars, an Association for Information Systems Fellow, and an advisor to the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. She is also a member of the steering committee of the International Conference of Conceptual Modeling, where she has the honor of being an ER Fellow and a recipient of the Peter P. Chen Award. She received a Georgia State University Teaching Innovation Award for her work on experiential and interdisciplinary teaching. Dr. Storey received her PhD from the University of British Columbia and holds a degree in flute performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto.