Arne Sølvberg


Arne Sølvberg is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of information modelling.

Career

Sølvberg was born at Klepp in southwestern Norway. He was the eldest of five, with three brothers and a sister. He received a M.Sc. in applied physics in 1963 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, now the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 1971 at NTH he received a Ph.D. in computer science with the thesis "Matematiske metoder for generering og oppfølging av kortsiktige salgsprognoser". Under the guidance of Börje Langefors, professor of Business Information Systems at Stockholm University, 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 computer science 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 IBM Almaden Research Center, The University of Florida, The Naval Postgraduate School, The University of California, Santa Barbara and most recently with the University of California at Los Angeles. 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.

Work

Sølvberg's main research interests are in the fields of information systems design methodology, database design, 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. Books, a selection:
Articles, a selection: