Sergio de Cesare is Professor of Digital Business and heads the Centre for Digital Business Research at the University of Westminster. His research investigates foundational ontology as a means to theoretically model the digital enterprise, methods for the engineering and integration of information systems, and ways in which emerging digital technologies can create new business opportunities. He has received research funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in excess of £1 million and has collaborated with organisations from the manufacturing and the service sectors. He is a Senior Editor of Information Technology and People and has served as Managing Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (2009-2014). He has also been a member of numerous conference programme committees, including the International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER) and Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS). He received a PhD in Information Systems from LUISS Guido Carli in Rome (Italy) and a Laurea cum laude in Economics and Business from the University of Bari (Italy).
Eshraghian, F., Hafezieh, N., Farivar, F., & de Cesare, S. (2024). AI in software programming: Understanding emotional responses to GitHub Copilot. Information Technology & People.
Dzandu, M. D., Hatsu, S., & De Cesare, S. (2023). Remote Working and Task Innovativeness–an Integrated Resource Based View and Antecedent-Behaviour-Consequence Perspective. Information Systems Frontiers, 1–24.
Dzandu, M. D., Pathak, B., & de Cesare, S. (2022). Acceptability of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app–does culture matter? Government Information Quarterly, 39(4), 101750.
Verdonck, M., Gailly, F., & de Cesare, S. (2020). Comprehending 3D and 4D ontology-driven conceptual models: An empirical study. Information Systems, 93, 101568.
Partridge, C., De Cesare, S., Mitchell, A., & Odell, J. (2018). Formalization of the classification pattern: Survey of classification modeling in information systems engineering. Software & Systems Modeling, 17, 167–203.
de Cesare, S., & Partridge, C. (2016). BORO as a Foundation to Enterprise Ontology. Journal of Information Systems, 30(2), 83–112.
Verdonck, M., Gailly, F., De Cesare, S., & Poels, G. (2015). Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: A systematic literature mapping and review. Applied Ontology, 10(3–4), 197–227.
Al Nasseri, A., Tucker, A., & De Cesare, S. (2015). Quantifying StockTwits semantic terms’ trading behavior in financial markets: An effective application of decision tree algorithms. Expert Systems with Applications, 42(23), 9192–9210.
Heravi, B. R., Lycett, M., & de Cesare, S. (2014). Ontology-based standards development: Application of OntoStanD to ebXML business process specification schema. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 15(3), 275–297.
Bigdeli, A. Z., Kamal, M., & de Cesare, S. (2013). Information sharing through inter-organisational systems in local government. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 7(2), 148–176.
Bigdeli, A. Z., Kamal, M. M., & De Cesare, S. (2013). Electronic information sharing in local government authorities: Factors influencing the decision-making process. International Journal of Information Management, 33(5), 816–830.
al Asswad, M. M., Alfaries, A., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2012). Semi-Automatic Annotation Of Web Services: A Comparative Analysis and Research Agenda. International Journal of Semantic Computing, 6(02), 243–259.
Fernando, S., Choudrie, J., Lycett, M., & de Cesare, S. (2012). Hidden assumptions and their influence on clinicians’ acceptance of new IT systems in the NHS. Information Systems Frontiers, 14, 279–299.
Al-Debei, M. M., Al Asswad, M. M., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2012). International Journal of Database Management Systems (IJDMS). Conceptual Modelling and the Quality of Ontologies: Endurantism Vs Perdurantism, 4 (3), 1-19.
Bell, D., De Cesare, S., Lycett, M., Taylor, S. J., & Mustafee, N. (2012). Service-oriented simulation using web ontology. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 7(3), 217–227.
Asswad, M. M. A., De Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2011). A query-based approach for semi-automatic annotation of web services. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change (IJISSC), 2(2), 37–54.
Aldin, L., & de Cesare, S. (2011). A literature review on business process modelling: New frontiers of reusability. Enterprise Information Systems, 5(3), 359–383.
de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., Macredie, R. D., Patel, C., & Paul, R. (2010). Examining perceptions of agility in software development practice. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), 126–130.
Fernando, S., Lycett, M., & De Cesare, S. (2008). Improving clinicians’ involvement in healthcare information systems development and delivery. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 3(1), 73–85.
Bell, D., Mustafee, N., De Cesare, S., Taylor, S. J., Lycett, M., & Fishwick, P. A. (2008). Ontology engineering for simulation component reuse. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 4(4), 47–61.
Choudhury, I., de Cesare, S., & Di Florido, E. (2008). An Object-Oriented Abstraction Mechanism for Generic Enterprise Modeling. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 4(1), 48–62.
Lycett, M., Patel, C., Merico, A., Iacovelli, N., & de Cesare, S. (2008). Tailoring software development methodologies in practice: A case study. Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 16(3), 157–168.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., Iacovelli, N., Lycett, M., & Merico, A. (2007). A framework for deriving semantic web services. Information Systems Frontiers, 9(1), 69–84.
Fernando, S., Lycett, M., & De Cesare, S. (2006). Understanding the relationship between business and IT groups: A personal construct theory approach. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 3(4), 438–449.
Daga, A., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2006). Separation of concerns: Techniques, issues and implications. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 15(1–4), 153–176.
de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., & Paul, R. J. (2003). Actor perception in business use case modeling. Communications of the AIS.
Al Nasseri, A., Tucker, A., & de Cesare, S. (2014). Big data analysis of stocktwits to predict sentiments in the stock market. Discovery Science: 17th International Conference, DS 2014, Bled, Slovenia, October 8-10, 2014. Proceedings 17, 13–24.
Adnan, S., Tahir, A., Basharat, A., & de Cesare, S. (2009). Semantic agent oriented architecture for researcher profiling and association (semora). 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 3, 559–562.
Adnan, S., Tahir, A., Basharat, A., & de Cesare, S. (2010). An agent-oriented architecture for researcher profiling and association using Semantic Web technologies. In Information Retrieval and Mining in Distributed Environments (pp. 77–91). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Al-Asswad, M., Al-Debei, M., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2010). Conceptual modeling and the quality of ontologies: A comparison between object-role modeling and the object paradigm.
Aldin, L., & De Cesare, S. (2009). A comparative analysis of business process modelling techniques.
Aldin, L., & de Cesare, S. (2011b). Semantic reuse of business process models via generalisation.
Aldin, L., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2009). A Semantic-based framework for discovering business process patterns.
Anfinnsen, S., Ghinea, G., & De Cesare, S. (2011). Web 2.0 and folksonomies in a library context. International Journal of Information Management, 31(1), 63–70.
Basu, A., Eshraghian, F., & De Cesare, S. (2023). Discerning popularity of innovations on digital platforms using an exploratory developer motivational perspective framework. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2023.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2005a). IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web Semantics (SWWS)-Applications of Semantic Web I (SWWS)-Semantic Transformation of Web Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3762, 856–865.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2005b). Semantic transformation of web services. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops, 856–865.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2006). Enterprise Software Grid: A Business Grid Service Ontology.
Bell, D., De Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2007). Business grid services. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 5(1), 23–38.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., Mustafee, N., & Taylor, S. J. (2007). Semantic web service architecture for simulation model reuse. 11th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT’07), 129–136.
Bell, D., de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., Taylor, S., & Mustafee, N. (2006). A web services component discovery and deployment architecture for simulation model reuse.
Bigdeli, A. Z., & de Cesare, S. (2011). Barriers to e-Government service delivery in developing countries: The case of Iran. In Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies (pp. 307–320). Physica-Verlag HD.
Bigdeli, A. Z., Kamal, M., & De Cesare, S. (2012a). Information sharing in inter-departmental collaboration: A conceptual framework for local government authorities. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 485–486.
Bigdeli, A. Z., Kamal, M. M., & De Cesare, S. (2012b). Electronic information sharing in local government: The decision-making process. 20th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2012.
Bigdeli, Z., Kamal, M., & de Cesare, S. (2011). Inter-organisational electronic information sharing in local G2G settings: A socio-technical issue.
de Cesare, S., Foy, G., & Lycett, M. (2016). 4D-SETL. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 127–134.
Collis, J., Alkhatib, E., & de Cesare, S. (2018). Costs and benefits to small companies of digital reporting.
Daga, A., de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., & Partridge, C. (2004). Software stability: Recovering general patterns of business.
Daga, A., de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., & Partridge, C. (2005). An ontological approach for recovering legacy business content. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 224a–224a.
de Cesare, S., Foy, G., & Lycett, M. (2016). A Semantic Data Integration Framework. ICEIS 2016, 127.
de Cesare, S., Foy, G., & Partridge, C. (2013). Re-engineering data with 4D ontologies and graph databases. International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 304–316.
De Cesare, S., Frank, U., & others. (2017). Advances in Conceptual Modeling. Springer,.
de Cesare, S., & Geerts, G. L. (2012). Toward a perdurantist ontology of contracts. Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2012 International Workshops, Gdańsk, Poland, June 25-26, 2012. Proceedings 24, 85–96.
de Cesare, S., Henderson-Sellers, B., Partridge, C., & Lycett, M. (2015). Improving model quality through foundational ontologies: Two contrasting approaches to the representation of roles. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 304–314.
De Cesare, S., Juric, D., & Lycett, M. (2014). Toward the automation of business process ontology generation. 2014 IEEE 16th Conference on Business Informatics, 1, 70–77.
de Cesare, S., Juric, D., & Lycett, M. (2016). Automated taxonomy extraction from semantic business process models. 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 4394–4403.
de Cesare, S., Lycett, M. G., & Macredie, R. (2015). The Development of Component-based Information Systems. Routledge.
de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., & Patel, D. (2003). BUSINESS MODELLING WITH UML. Enterprise Information Systems IV, 153.
de Cesare, S., & Serrano, A. (2006). Collaborative modeling using UML and business process simulation. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’06), 1, 10b–10b.
de Cesare, S., Themistocleous, M., & Serrano, A. (2005). Mapping UML and business process simulation models for BP and IT integration. 16th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation.
Ennis, C., Barnett, N., de Cesare, S., Lander, R., & others. (2018). A conceptual framework for servitization in Industry 4.0: Distilling directions for future research. Ennis, C., Barnett, N., De Cesare, S., Lander, R. and Pilkington, A.(2018). A Conceptual Framework for Servitization in Industry, 4.
Eshraghian, F., Hafezieh, N., Farivar, F., & De Cesare, S. (2023). Dynamics of Emotions Towards AI-Powered Technologies: A Study of GitHub Copilot. Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting 2023.
Gill, N. S., de Cesare, S., & Lycett, M. (2002). Measurement of component-based software: Some important issues. 7th Annual UKAIS Conference Proceedings, 373–381.
Hafezieh, N., Eshraghian, F., Farivar, F., & De Cesare, S. (2023). Dynamics of Emotions Towards AI-Powered Technologies: A Study of GitHub Copilot. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023(1), 16147.
Partridge, C., & de Cesare, S. (2016). Grounding for ontological architecture quality: Metaphysical choices. Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2016 Workshops, AHA, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, SCME, and WM2SP, Gifu, Japan, November 14–17, 2016, Proceedings 35, 9–15.
Partridge, C., de Cesare, S., Mitchell, A., Gailly, F., & Khan, M. (n.d.). Developing an Ontological Sandbox: Investigating Multi-Level Modelling’s Possible Metaphysical.
Partridge, C., de Cesare, S., Mitchell, A., León, A., Gailly, F., & Khan, M. (2018). Ontology then agentology: A finer grained framework for enterprise modelling. 6th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development.
Partridge, C., Khan, M., de Cesare, S., Gailly, F., Verdonck, M., & Mitchell, A. (2018). Thoroughly Modern Accounting: Shifting to a de re conceptual pattern for debits and credits. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 134–148.
Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., da Silva, M., Soto, O. X., West, M., Khan, M., & de Cesare, S. (2020). Implicit requirements for ontological multi-level types in the UNICLASS classification. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings, 1–8.
Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., & de Cesare, S. (2013). Guidelines for developing ontological architectures in modelling and simulation. In Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation: Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications (pp. 27–57). Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin, Heidelberg.
Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., & de Cesare, S. (2019). Grounding for an Enterprise Computing Nomenclature Ontology. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 457–465.
Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., Loneragan, M., Atkinson, H., de Cesare, S., & Khan, M. (2019). Coordinate systems: Level ascending ontological options. 2019 ACM/IEEE 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), 78–87.
Patel, C., Lycett, M., Macredie, R., & de Cesare, S. (2006). Perceptions of agility and collaboration in software development practice. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’06), 1, 10c–10c.
Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., & Cesare, S. de. (2000). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems. Springer-Verlag.
Taylor, S. J., Bell, D., Mustafee, N., de Cesare, S., Lycett, M., & Fishwick, P. A. (2010). Semantic web services for simulation component reuse and interoperability: An ontology approach. IGI Global.
Ziaee, B. A., Kamal, M. M., & de Cesare, S. (2012). ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SHARING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.