Special Issue on: Model and Data Engineering

Abstract

We welcome you to this special issue dedicated to the best papers presented at the second International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI) that was held in Poitiers, France in October 2012. MEDI, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, aims at promoting the creation of north–south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges as well as of other parts of the world. The first edition of MEDI was held in Obidos, Portugal, in September 2011. MEDI promotes the interaction and collaboration of research communities issued from modelling and system modelling on the one hand and data and data modelling on the other hand. However, the explosion of the volume of data, models, processes within organizations has brought up new requirements and research issues, in particular to copewith problems related to semantic modelling, deployment, exploitation, performance, personalization or recommendation. Each year, MEDI invites world-known researchers to give talks. In the first edition, Timos Sellis presently at RMIT University in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Australia gave a talk about Personalization in Web search and data management, and Mandy