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<font face='Geneva' size='4'><b>*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br></b></font><font face='Geneva'><br></font><font face='Geneva' size='4'><b>4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL & DATA ENGINEERING<br>(MEDI 2014)<br></b></font><font face='Geneva'><br><b>Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus <br></b><br><b>24-26 September, 2014<br></b><br><b><a href="http://medi2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/">http://medi2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/</a><br></b><br>The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the dissemination of<br>research accomplishments and to promote the interaction<br>and collaboration of research communities issued from modelling and system<br>modelling on the one hand and data and data modelling on the other hand.<br>MEDI 2014 provides an international infrastructure for the presentation of<br>research results and experimentations on models and data theory, development of<br>advanced technologies related to models and data and their<br>advanced applications and case studies. This international scientific event,<br>initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, aims also at<br>promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and <br>faculty/student exchanges and of other parts of the world as well. <br><br><br><u>Aim and Scope </u><br><br>Specific areas of interest to MEDI'2014 include but are not limited to:<br><br>Modelling and Models Engineering:<br>- Design of General-purpose Modelling Languages and Related Standards <br>- Model Driven Engineering, Modelling Languages, Meta-modelling, Model<br><br>Transformation, Model Evolution:<br>- Formal Modelling, Verification and Validation, Analysis, Testing <br>- Ontology Based Modelling, Role of Ontologies in Modelling Activities <br>- Model Manipulation and models as first objects<br>- Heterogeneous modelling, model integration and interoperability<br>- Applications and case studies<br><br>Data Engineering:<br>- Heterogeneous data, data Integration and Interoperability <br>- Distributed, Parallel, Grid, Peer to Peer, Cloud Databases <br>- Data Warehouses and OLAP, Data Mining <br>- Database System Internals, Performance, Self-tuning Benchmarking<br> and Testing <br>- Database Security, Personalization, Recommendation <br>- Web Databases, Ontology Based Databases, PDMS<br>- Applications and case studies <br><br>Modeling for Data Management:<br>- New Models and Architectures for Databases and Data Warehouses <br>- Modeling and Quality of Data <br>- Modeling for Enhancing Sharing Data <br>- Models for Explicit and Implicit Semantics based Data Optimization <br>- Model Reification, Model Repositories <br>- Modeling Non Functional Properties of Systems <br>- Data as models and Models as Data<br>- Service based data management and service oriented applications<br>- Models for data Monitoring <br>- Urbanization of Database Applications <br><br>Applications and tooling:<br>- Industry transfer, experiences<br>- Data and Model manipulation and tooling <br>- Modelling tools and experimentation<br><br><u>Conference Location </u><br><br>Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca <br><a href="https://www.lordosbeach.com.cy/en/">https://www.lordosbeach.com.cy/en/</a><br><br><br><u>Submission Guidelines and Instructions </u><br><br>Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing <br>original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF or<br>Word format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should<br>not exceed 12 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices).<br>Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 15 pages with<br>the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages if the paper is<br>accepted. Submissions which do not conform to the LNCS format and/or which<br>do exceed 12 pages (or up to 15 pages with the extra page purchase <br>commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be <br>carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and<br>clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in<br>Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Duplicate submissions are not<br>allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is <br>submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already<br>accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate<br>submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. Submissions<br>require explicit consent from all listed authors. <br><br><br><u>Important Dates</u><br><br>Abstract submission: April 14, 2014 <br>Full-paper submission: April 21, 2014 <br>Acceptance notification: June 16, 2014 <br>Camera Ready: July 7, 2014 <br><br><br><u>Paper Publication </u> <br><br>All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science<br>(LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Best papers will be invited for submission in a<br>special issue of a recognized international journals (under discussion).<br><br><br><u>Keynotes Speakers</u><br><br>Mukesh MOHANIA, IBM, INDIA : Data and Data models<br>Dominique MERY, Loria, Nancy, France: Models and system modelling<br><br><br><u>Conference Organization </u><br><br><b>General Chairs </b><br>Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, Poitiers University, France <br>George A. Papadopoulos, Department of Computer Science, University of<br>Cyprus<br><br><b>Programme Committee Chair<br></b>Yamine Aït Ameur, ENSEEIHT/IRIT, Toulouse, France<br><br><b>Local Organizing Chair</b><br>Mr. Petros Stratis (EasyConferences, LTD), Finance Chair<br><br><b>Program Committee </b><br><br>TBA <br><br><br>For further inquiries, contact the MEDI 2014 PC Chair: <br>Yamine Aït Ameur (yamine@n7.fr)<br></font>
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