Janis Askolds Bubenko junior (; 3February 193515January 2022) was a Swedish computer scientist and professor emeritus at the Department of Computer and Systems Science,

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Biography

Born 1935 in

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, Latvia, Bubenko fled with his family to Sweden at the end of World War II in 1944. He received his MSc in

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, Sweden, in 1958, his Licentiate of Technology in structural mechanics also from the Chalmers University of Technology in 1958. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. in

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in Stockholm in 1973, and his

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in 1974.Janis A. Bubenko jr
extended CV, 2004. Accessed 12 July 2013 In 1961 Bubenko started his career as a manager in Univac Scandinavia, a branch of the U.S. computer company Univac. In 1965 he started as an assistant professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, where in 1969 he founded the research group Computer Aided Design of Information Systems (CADIS). From 1977 to 1981 he was a professor of computer and systems sciences at

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and Chalmers University of Technology, and from 1981 to 2000 professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm.Janis A. Bubenko jr; Short biography
Accessed 12 July 2013. Bubenko has chaired multiple information systems conferences since the late 1970s. He is member of

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(ACM), the

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(IEEE) Computer Society, and the

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(IFIP) Working Group 8.1. Bubenko died on 15 January 2022 in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 86.

Publications

Bubenko authored and co-authored more than 140 articles, and seven textbooks in the fields of "Information Systems Development Methods, Performance Analysis of Data Processing Systems, Operating Systems, and Conceptual Modelling Methods".Janis Bubenko jr. Selected Bibliography
Accessed 12 July 2013 Books, a selection: * 1971. ''Computer-aided information systems analysis and design. The first Scandinavian workshop''. With Arne Sølvberg and

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(Eds). * 1973. ''Contributions to formal description, analysis and design of data processing systems''. Stockholm. Libris * 2000. ''Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes''. With

Sjaak Brinkkemper Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born Monnickendam, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full Professor of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Biography ...

, Eva Lindencrona and Arne Sølvberg. * 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 Arne Sølvberg and John Impagliazzo. Articles, a selection: * 2007. "From Information Algebra to Enterprise Modelling and Ontologies - a Historical Perspective on Modelling for Information Systems". In: ''Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering''.

John Krogstie John Krogstie (born 23 May 1967) is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in information systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of enterprise modelling. Biography ...

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Janis A. Bubenko jr
at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm {{DEFAULTSORT:Bubenko jr, Janis A. 1935 births Information systems researchers Swedish computer scientists Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Chalmers University of Technology alumni Latvian emigrants to Sweden Latvian World War II refugees 2022 deaths