Isidro Ramos - Böcker

The Database and Expert Systems Application (DEXA) Conferences are mainly held as state-of-the-art forums on database and expert systems applications. The sessions are application-oriented, ranging from classical applications to more unusual ones in software engineering. Actual research aspects in databases, such as activity, deductivity and/or object orientation are presented here, as well as the implications of the new data models such as the OO-model. Other areas of interest, such as hypertext and multimedia applications, together with the classical field of information retrieval, are also considered. Finally, implementation aspects are reflected in concrete fields.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2014, held in Valencia, Spain, in September/October 2014. The 41 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 126 submissions. The scope of the conference series is broad, encompassing modeling languages, methods, tools, and applications considered from theoretical and practical angles and in academic and industrial settings. The papers report on the use of modeling in a wide range of cloud, mobile, and web computing, model transformation behavioral modeling, MDE: past, present, future, formal semantics, specification, and verification, models at runtime, feature and variability modeling, composition and adaptation, practices and experience, modeling for analysis, pragmatics, model extraction, manipulation and persistence, querying, and reasoning.