This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the workshops held at the 8th International Conference on New Trends in Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2018, in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2018. The 19 full and the one short workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized according to the 4 workshops: International Workshop on Modeling, Verification and Testing of Dependable Critical Systems, DETECT 2018, Model and Data Engineering for Social Good Workshop, MEDI4SG 2018, Second International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2018, International Workshop on Formal Model for Mastering Multifaceted Systems, REMEDY 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8h International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2018, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2018. The 23 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers covered the recent and relevant topics in the areas of databases; ontology and model-driven engineering; data fusion, classsification and learning; communication and information technologies; safety and security; algorithms and text processing; and specification, verification and validation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018.The 13 revised full papers and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Graph analytics; case studies; classification and clustering; pre-processing; sequences; cloud and database systems; and data mining.

This volume constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Smart Applications and Data Analysis, SADASC 2020, held in Marrakesh, Morocco. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference has been postponed to June 2020. The 24 full papers and 3 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topics: ontologies and meta modeling; cyber physical systems and block-chains; recommender systems; machine learning based applications; combinatorial optimization; simulations and deep learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in September 2019. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Applications; patterns; RDF and streams; big data systems; graphs and machine learning; databases.

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