Simon Curty

Simon Curty is a senior research assistant in the Digitalization and Information Systems Group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He holds a PhD from the University of Fribourg in 2025.  For his dissertation, he was awarded the 2025 Faculty Prize for the best thesis in theoretical natural sciences. His main areas of research include emerging technologies, enterprise architecture, model-driven engineering, business modeling, and conceptual modeling. Of specific interest are domain-specific languages and conceptual modeling methods for designing and analyzing systems integrating emerging technologies, specifically distributed ledger technology, large language models, or quantum computing.

Research Activities

Simon Curty regularily contributes to the scientific community as reviewer and as a program commitee member for venues and outlets such as PoEM, EMMSAD, ER, CSIMQ, and more. He co-organized a workshop on distributed ledger technologies for business porcess management at the BPM conference in 2025.

Selected Publications

• Muñoz-Cádiz, Jesús, Challa, Gunakar, Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2026): Towards an IFC-Based Construction Process Modeling Language, in: van der Aa et al. (2026): Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling 27th International Conference, BPMDS 2026, and 31st International Conference, EMMSAD 2026, Springer, DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-28274-3 (pdf).
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2026): An Enterprise Modeling Perspective On Quantum Computing, ECIS 2026 Proceedings. 4, https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2026/quantum/quantum/4 (pdf).
• Curty, Simon (2025): Domain-specific Conceptual Modeling for Designing Distributed Ledger Applications, Dissertation, University of Fribourg, DOI:10.51363/unifr.sth.2026.068.
• Curty, Simon, Bühlmann, Marcel, Fill, Hans-Georg, Treiblmaier, Horst (2025): The Blockchain Balanced Scorecard: An Innovative Approach to Facilitate Strategic Management in Enterprises, Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025, 5591-5600, URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109518 (pdf)
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2024): SmartCML: A Visual Modeling Language to Enhance the Comprehensibility of Smart Contract Implementations, in: Paja, Elda, Zdravkovic, Jelena, Kavakli, Evangelia, Stirna, Janis (eds.): The Practice of Enterprise Modeling - 17th IFIP Working Conference, PoEM 2024, Stockholm, Sweden, LNBIP, Springer, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-77908-4 (pdf). 
• Fill, Hans-Georg, Härer, Felix, Vasic, Iva, Borcard, Daniel, Reitemeyer, Benedikt, Muff, Fabian, Curty, Simon, Bühlmann, Marcel (2024): CMAG: A Framework for Conceptual Model Augmented Generative Artificial Intelligence, in: Gallinucci et al. (eds.): Companion Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER Forum, Special Topics, Posters and Demos, Co-located with ER 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, CEUR-WS, Vol-3849, 56-69 (pdf).
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2023): A Domain-Specific e3value Extension for Analyzing Blockchain-Based Value Networks, IFIP Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling, pp. 74-90,Springer (PDF).
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2023): A General Domain Model of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Companion Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER Forum, 7th SCME, Project Exhibitions, Posters and Demos, and Doctoral Consortium co-located with ER 2023, CEUR-WS (pdf).
• Curty, Simon, Härer, Felix, Fill, Hans-Georg (2023): Design of blockchain-based applications using model-driven engineering and low-code/no-code platforms: a structured literature review, Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), online first, DOI: 10.1007/s10270-023-01109-1
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg (2022): Exploring the Systematic Design of Blockchain-based Applications Using Integrated Modeling Standards, in: Bork, D. et al. (eds.) (2022):  Proceedings of the PoEM 2022 Workshops and Models at Work co-located with Practice of Enterprise Modelling 2022, London, United Kingdom, November 23-25, 2022, CEUR-WS, Vol. 3298, (pdf).
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg, Rafael S. Goncalves, Mark A. Musen (2022): An Architecture for Attesting to the Provenance of Ontologies Using Blockchain Technologies,  BMSD 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11510-3_11, pp. 182-199, Springer.
• Curty, Simon, Härer, Felix, Fill, Hans-Georg (2022): Blockchain Application Development Using Model-Driven Engineering and Low-Code Platforms: A Survey, In: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, EMMSAD 2022, pp. 205–220 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_14, Springer, Pre-Print available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03387
• Curty, Simon, Fill, Hans-Georg, Musen, Mark A., Gonçalves, R. (2021): A WebProtégé Plugin for Attesting to the Provenance of Ontologies on the Ethereum Blockchain, in: Seneviratne, O., Pesquita, C., Sequeda, J. Etcheverry, L. (2021): Proceedings of the ISWC 2021 Posters, Demos and Industry Tracks: From Novel Ideas to Industrial Practice co-located with 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), CEUR-WS, Vol. 2980 (pdf).
• Curty, Simon, Härer, Felix, Fill, Hans-Georg (2021): Towards the Comparison of Blockchain-based Applications Using Enterprise Modeling, in: Lukyanenko, R., Samuel, B., Sturm, A. (2021): Proceedings of the ER Demos and Posters 2021 co-located with 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2021), CEUR-WS Volume 2958 (pdf).