Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau is a full professor at ESSEC Business School and affiliated with the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), contributing to the CEDRIC laboratory. With over two decades of academic activity, her work bridges computer science, information systems, and digital humanities through conceptual modeling, data quality, and reverse engineering.

• ESSEC Business School (since 2013)
• CNAM - CEDRIC Laboratory (since 2001)

Her research interests focus on database design, quality assessment, and modeling techniques, particularly for historical data and business intelligence applications. Key themes include:

• Conceptual modeling of prosopographic databases
• Uncertainty detection in historical data
• Quality metrics for web applications
• Security requirements engineering with ontologies
• Mapping multidimensional schemas to graph models
• Evaluation frameworks for design science research

Her article trends show consistent contributions to database evolution (2001-2023), with recent work emphasizing design science research (2019-2023) and historical data quality (2019-2021). Collaborative patterns reveal long-term partnerships with Jacques Akoka and Nathalie Prat across multiple domains.