Arne Sølvberg (born 13 February 1940) is a Norwegian

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, professor in

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at the

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(NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of information modelling.

Career

Sølvberg was born at

Klepp Klepp is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kleppe. O ...

in southwestern Norway. He was the eldest of five, with three brothers and a sister.

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, Andreas Lothe Opdahl,

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(2007) ''Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering''. p. vii He received a M.Sc. in

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in 1963 from the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

, now the

(NTNU). In 1971 at NTH he received a Ph.D. in

with the thesis "Matematiske metoder for generering og oppfølging av kortsiktige salgsprognoser". Under the guidance of

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(born 1915), professor of Business Information Systems at

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, he had received the first doctoral degree in computer science at Trondheim. Between 1963 and 1974 Sølvberg worked at SINTEF Runnit building up and leading their information systems group. In 1974 he became the first professor of

at NTNU, in the computer science department, which was established two years earlier. and since 2002 he is also dean of NTNU’s Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering as well. He has been a visiting scientist with

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, The

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and most recently with the

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.Arne SOLVBERG
Keynote speaker of RCIS'07 Conference. Accessed Sept 22, 2009. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Active in international organizations working toward cooperation in research, from 1979 to 1982 Sølvberg represented Norway at the IFIP General Assembly. From 1982 to 1988, he was chairman of IFIP WG8.1 for Information Systems Design. Until 1994 he served as a trustee in the VLDB Endowment. He cofounded the CAiSE conference series. He is married to Ingeborg Sølvberg.

Work

Sølvberg's main research interests are in the fields of information systems design methodology,

database design Database design is the organization of data according to a database model. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate. With this information, they can begin to fit the data to the database model.Teorey, T ...

, information modelling, information systems engineering environments and model driven design.

Publications

Sølvberg has published numerous papers in journals, books, and archival proceedings since the 1970s.Arne Sølvberg, List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
Accessed Sept 23, 2009. Books, a selection: * 1967. ''Datamaskinen''. * 1969. ''Fortran''. * 1971. ''Computer-aided information systems analysis and design. The first Scandinavian workshop''. With Janis Bubenko and Börje Langefors (Eds). * 1990. ''CAiSE '90 (1990 : Stockholm, Sweden) Advanced information systems engineering : second Nordic conference, CAiSE '90, Stockholm, Sweden, May 8-10, 1990 : proceedings''. With B. Steinholtz and L. Bergman (eds.) * 1993. ''An Introduction to Information Systems Engineering''. With David Kung. Springer-Verlag. * 2000. ''Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes''. With

, Janis Bubenko and Eva Lindencrona. * 2001. ''International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (20th : 2001 : Yokohama, Japan) Conceptual modeling-ER 2001 : 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Yokohama, Japan, November 2001 : proceedings.'' With Hideko S. Kunii and Sushil Jajodia (eds.). * 2003. ''Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (1st : 2003 : Trondheim, Norway) History of Nordic computing : IFIP WG9.7 First Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1), June 16-18, 2003, Trondheim, Norway''. Edited with Janis Bubenko, Jr. and John Impagliazzo. * 2007. ''Conceptual modelling in information systems engineering'' With

Andreas Lothe Opdahl Andreas Lothe Opdahl (born 1964) is a Norwegian computer scientist and Professor of Information Systems Development at the University of Bergen, known for his theory about Security requirements engineering, and for with Guttorm Sindre coining the ...

and

(eds.). Articles, a selection: * Eivind Aurdal, Arne Sølvberg (1977). "A multi-level procedure for design of file organizations". In: ''AFIPS National Computer Conference 1977'' pp. 509-521. * Arne Sølvberg, David Chenho Kung (1985). "On Structural and Behavioral Modeling of Reality". In: ''DS-1'' 1985. pp. 205-221 * O.I. Lindland, G. Sindre and Arne Sølvberg (1994) "Understanding quality in conceptual modeling". In: IEEE Software 11(2), pp. 42–49

References

External links

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