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CALL FOR PAPERS MEDI 2017
The 7th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2017)
4 - 6 October 2017
Barcelona, Spain
URL: http://www.essi.upc.edu/dtim/medi2017/
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Full paper submission: April 28, 2017
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2017
Camera-ready Submission: July 6, 2017
Conference: October 4,5, and 6, 2017

ABOUT MEDI
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.

TOPICS
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. Specific areas of interest to MEDI 2017 include but are not limited to:
• 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
• Model integration, 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

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS style 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.
Best papers will be invited for submission in special issues of the following Journals:
Computing, Springer Verlag (5-year Impact Factor: 1.144)
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, Elsevier (5-year Impact Factor: 0.459)

General Co-Chairs
• Alberto Abelló, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Ladjel Bellatreche, ISAE-ENSMA, France
Program Committee Co-Chairs
• Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• Yassine Ouhammou, ISAE-ENSMA, France