Peter FettkePeter Fettke obtained a Master’s Degree in Information Systems (Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker) from the University of Münster, Germany. Since April 2006 he is a Senior Researcher in Information Systems, Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at theGerman Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany. Peter has taught and researched previously at the Technical University of Chemnitz and the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, both Germany. His research interests include information systems analysis and design, especially the use of conceptual modeling and component-based system paradigm. Peter has published numerous articles on reference modeling, conceptual modeling and component-based engineering in both national and international journals and conference proceedings. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT) as well as the Journal of System and the Management Sciences (JSMS) and serves as a regular reviewer for the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), and International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS). Recently, he has finished his PhD thesis on structuralist foundations for the ontological evaluation of reference models. Read More Read Less