MEDI 2015

Call for papers

Organization

The 5th International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 26 to 28 September 2015 in Rhodes Island, Greece. Previous MEDI events took place at Obidos/Portugal (2011), Poitiers/France (2012), Calabria/Italy (2013), Larnaca/Cyrpus (2014). The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, aims also at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges.

Topics

  • Modelling and Models Engineering
  • Design of general-purpose modelling languages and related stand-ards
  • Model driven engineering, modelling languages, meta-modelling, model transformation, model evolution
  • Formal modelling, verification and validation, analysis, testing
  • Ontology based modelling, role of ontologies in modelling activities
  • Model manipulation and models as first objects
  • Heterogeneous modelling, model integration, interoperability
  • Applications and case studies
  • Data Engineering
  • Heterogeneous data, data Integration and Interoperability
  • Distributed, parallel, grid, p2p, cloud databases
  • Data warehouses and OLAP, data mining
  • Database system Internals, performance, self-tuning benchmarking and testing
  • Database security, personalization, recommendation
  • Web databases, ontology based databases
  • Applications and case studies
  • Modeling for Data Management
  • New models and architectures for databases and data ware-houses
  • Modeling and quality of data
  • Modeling for enhancing sharing data
  • Models for explicit and implicit semantics based data optimization
  • Model reification, model repositories
  • Modeling nonfunctional properties of systems
  • Data as models and models as data
  • Service based data management, service oriented applications
  • Models for data monitoring
  • Urbanization of database applications
  • Applications and tooling
  • Industry transfer, experiences
  • Data and model manipulation and tooling
  • Modelling tools and experimentation

Information for authors

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format and should not exceed 12 pages. Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 16 pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages if the paper is accepted. Submissions which do not conform to the LNCS format and/or which exceed 12 pages (or 16 pages with the extra page purchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS series. Duplicate submissions are not allowed.