Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling (PDF)

Dimitris Karagiannis holds a full professor position for Business Informatics at the University of Vienna since 1993, leading the Research Group Knowledge Engineering. He earned a PhD degree from the Technical University Berlin in 1987. The same year he joined the Research Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing in Ulm as division head for "Enterprise Information Systems". Karagiannis holds an honorary professorship from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research interests include meta-modelling, knowledge engineering, business process management, enterprise architecture management and artificial intelligence. The industrial application of his meta-modelling research was demonstrated within the BOC Group, a European software- and consulting company. In parallel scientific applications of his research are used in the Open Models Laboratory - OMiLAB, http://www.omilab.org, an open collaborative environment for modelling method engineering,which he has established and is currently leading.



Heinrich C. Mayr has been a full professor of Informatics at Universität Klagenfurt since 1990, leading the Application Engineering Research Group. Until then he was an assistant professor at the University of Karlsruhe (today: KIT), visiting professor at several universities, and CEO of a German software company. His research is documented in over 200 publications and includes information system design methodologies, requirements and model engineering, and knowledge management. Amongst other functions, he was President of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Vice President of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS), and chairman of the board of trustees of a regional utility company. For 6 years he served as Rector of the University. Currently he is editor in chief of the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), vice-chair of the ER steering committee, chairperson of the council of the Software Internet