MEDI 2019 - Call for Papers

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9th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2019)
28-31 October 2019, Toulouse, France
https://www.irit.fr/MEDI2019/

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Overview
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The Ninth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 28 to 31 October 2019 in Toulouse, France. Its main objective 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. MEDI’2019 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. 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.

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Topics of interest
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Specific areas of interest to MEDI 2019 include but are not limited to:

Modelling and Models 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
- Models for Big Data & NoSQL databases

Data Engineering
- New models and architectures for databases
- Heterogeneous data, data Integration, Interoperability
- Data warehouses, OLAP, data mining and Analytics
- Extending Data Warehousing Technology
- 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 tools
- Industry transfer, experiences
- Applications of modelling for Data Management
- Modelling tools and experimentation
- Lessons learned and reports related to models/data engineering

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Submission Guidelines and Instructions
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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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medi2019). 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. One author of an accepted paper must register to MEDI 2019 in order to have the paper published. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

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Publication and Special Issues
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All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Best papers will be invited for submission in special issues of the following Journals:
Journal of Computer Languages (formerly: Computer Languages, Systems and Structures/
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing)

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Important Dates
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Abstract submission: June 23, 2019 (extended)
Full-paper submission: June 30, 2019 (extended)
Acceptance notification: July 29, 2019
Early bird registration: August 16, 2019
Camera ready: August 16, 2019

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General Chair
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Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France

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Program Committee Co-Chairs
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Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China
Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France

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Workshop Chairs
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Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France
Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Sofian Maabout, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France


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Program Committee
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see https://www.irit.fr/MEDI2019/