October 4-6, 2017  

www.essi.upc.edu/dtim/medi2017

Barcelona, Spain

Scope and Background

The 7^th International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI 2017) will be held from 4 to 6 October 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. The main objective MEDI conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between both modelling and data research communities. For its second time in Spain, MEDI 2017 conference will continue the tradition by providing a platform for researchers and practitioners form industry and academic to report recent technology trends and research results in Models & Data Engineering, as well applications in industrial contexts. 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. MEDI 2017 will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. MEDI 2017 encourages researchers to submit papers highlighting benefits of modelling for data engineering and vice-versa, in areas such as cyber-physical systems, big data, social media, etc.

Keynote Speakers

• Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Title: Advances in Model Language Engineering

•  Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Title: Schema Evolution and Gravitation to Rigidity

Modelling and Models Engineering

Data Engineering

• Modelling languages and related standards;
• Modelling in software and complex system engineering;
• Formal methods, analysis, verification & validation;
• Model-based testing and performance analyses;
• Ontology-based modelling;
• Heterogeneous modelling, model integration, interoperability, model transformation;
• Collaborative modelling and model repositories;
• Models as services and models monitoring;
• Modelling for reuse, dependability and maintainability;

• New models and architectures for databases;
• Heterogeneous data, data Integration, Interoperability;
• Data warehouses, OLAP and data mining
• Database system Internals, performance analysis, self-tuning benchmarking and testing;
• Database security, personalization, recommendation;
• Web databases, ontology-based databases;
• Service based data management;
• Service oriented applications;
• Urbanization of database applications;

Applications and Tooling

• Industry transfer and experiences;
• Applications of modelling for Data Management;

• Modelling tools and experimentation;
• Lessons learned and reports related to models/data engineering

Evaluation Process

Authors are invited to submit English-language research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document, via the Easychair system (to be specified on the website). Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS style (Latex style only for camera-ready papers) and should not exceed 14 pages. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results, but does not justify a publication as a full paper. All accepted papers including short papers will be published in Springer LNCS series. An author of an accepted paper must register to MEDI 2017 in order to have the paper published. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

Two Journal Special Issues

Further Information

Authors of best papers presented in the conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the following Journals.

www.essi.upc.edu/dtim/medi2017

Computing Springer Verlag

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures Elsevier

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: April 21, 2017
• Full paper submission deadline: April 28, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2017
• Registration: June 30, 2017
• Camera-ready papers: July 6, 2017

General Chairs

• Alberto ABELLÓ, University of Catalunya, Spain
• Ladjel BELLATRECHE, ISAE-ENSMA, France

Program Committee Chairs

• Mirjana IVANOVIC, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• Yassine OUHAMMOU, ISAE-ENSMA, France