Conference Organization

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs

Paul Nielsen, CMU SEI, USA

General Chair

Hasan Yasar, hyasar@cmu.edu, CMU SEI, USA

Chief Coordinator

Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Distinguished Advisors

Kenneth M. Ford, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Jeffrey, J.P. Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs

Hyoil Han, hhan12@ilstu.edu, Illinois State University, USA
Wolfgang Maass, wolfgang.maass@iss.uni-saarland.de, Saarland University, Germany
Nick Multari, nick.multari@pnnl.gov, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA

Forum Chairs

Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada
Patrick Marcel, University of Orléans, France

Program Committee

Senior Program Committee

Jacky Akoka, CEDRIC-CNAM & IMT-TEM, France
João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Paolo Atzeni, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ho-Jin Choi, KAIST, Korea
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, ESSEC Business School, France
Gill Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Aldo Gangemi, Università di Bologna, Italy Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Skövde, Sweden
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Shuangyin Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Steve Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA
Sebastian Link, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
John Mylopoulos, University of Ottawa, Canada
Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Carlos Ordonez, University of Houston, USA

José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Veda Storey, GSU, USA
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Juan Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Chao Wang, Chongqing Normal University, China
Chaokun Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Essec Business School, France
Carson Woo, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden

Program Committee

Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Anurag Acharya, Florida International University, USA
João Araújo, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Sören Auer, TIB Leibniz Information Center Science & Technology and University of Hannover, Germany
David Aveiro, Madeira University, Portugal
Claudia Ayala, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Wolf-Tilo Balke, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Monalessa Barcellos, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Robin Bergenthum, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Devis Bianchini, University of Brescia, Italy
Sandro Bimonte, INRAE, France
Luiz Olavo Bonino Da Silva Santos, University of Twente, Netherlands
José Borbinha, INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria
Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University, USA
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Jordi Cabot, ICREA – UOC (Internet interdisciplinary institute), Spain
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción”, Paraguay
Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Jianhua Chen, Louisiana State University, USA
Suphamit Chittayasothorn, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Dickson K.W. Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yong Suk Choi, Dept. of CSE, Hanyang University, Korea
Soon Chun, City University of New York, USA
Tony Clark, Aston University, UK
Loek Cleophas, TU Eindhoven; and Stellenbosch University, Netherlands
Rogério Costa, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal
Dolors Costal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jérôme Darmont, Université de Lyon, France
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
Shasha Deng, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Johann Eder, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Vadim Ermolayev, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Inteilligence (DFKI) and Saarland University, Germany
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium
Enrico Gallinucci, University of Bologna, Italy
Yunjun Gao, Zhejiang University, China
Faiez Gargouri, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Chang Ge, University of Minnesota, USA
Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine, USA
Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Incipit CSIC, Spain
Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Guido Governatori, Independent researcher, Australia
Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
Sergio Guerreiro, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Simon Hacks, Stockholm University, Sweden
Siegfried Handschuh, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
Sabine Janzen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Jinhang Jiang, McKesson, USA
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jan Jürjens, Fraunhofer Institute for Software & Systems Engineering ISST and University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Kamalakar Karlapalem, CDE, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Julius Köpke, Universität Klagenfurt, Institute for Informatics Systems, Austria
Agnes Koschmider, Kiel University, Germany
Thomas Kühne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services Research, India
John Lalor, University of Notre Dame, USA
Ralf Laue, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany
Jeee-Hyong Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Moonkun Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea
WooKey Lee, Inha University, Korea
Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jingjing Li, University of Virginia, USA
Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology, China
Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada

Sergio Lifschitz, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Chun-Han Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Jim Logan, Dassault Systèmes, USA
Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland University, Germany
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Zoltan Mann, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Beatriz Marín, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Wolfgang Mayer, University of South Australia, Australia
Jose-Norberto Mazón, University of Alicante, Spain
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Miguel Mira da Silva, INOV, IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Jose Morales, CMU SEI, USA
João Moreira, University of Twente, Netherlands
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK
Júlio César Nardi, Federal Institute of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Bernd Neumayr, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Wilfred Ng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, France
Anne Ngu, Texas State University, USA
Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA
Alessandro Oltramari, Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA
Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Elda Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
José Palazzo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
José M. Parente de Oliveira, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology, Czechia
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Fabio Porto, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil
Christoph Quix, Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Maxx Richard Rahman, Saarland University, Germany
Mostafizur Rahman, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Japan
Jan Recker, University of Hamburg, Germany
Jana-Rebecca Rehse, University of Mannheim, Germany
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
Hajo A. Reijers, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Syed Rizvi, Amity University U.P.,Lucknow, India
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Ben Roelens, Open Universiteit, Ghent University, Netherlands
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kristina Rosenthal, Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland
Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tiago Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands
Maribel Yasmina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Estefania Serral, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jiaxing Shang, Chongqing University, China
Shivam Sharma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, USA
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, CEDRIC – Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Joy Smith, University of Twente, Netherlands
Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium
Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
Vítor E. Silva Souza, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen, Germany
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
David Sundaram, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Angelo Susi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Victoria Torres, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Marina Tropmann-Frick, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Srikar Velichety, University of Memphis, USA
Andreas Vogelsang, University of Cologne, Germany
Hongzhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Canada
Yves Wautelet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Zhen Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China
Robin Yeman, CMU SEI, USA
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Apostolos Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece
Heinz Züllighoven, Ingenieurbüro Dr. Züllighoven, Germany

The 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

Conference Organization

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

Senior Program Committee

Program Committee