14th International Symposium

DATAMOD 2026

FROM DATA TO MODELS AND BACK

A satellite event of the

24th International Conference of Software Engineering and Formal Methods - SEFM 2026

DATE November 2026

LOCATION Malta

About DataMod

DataMod aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions interested in the combined application of computational modelling methods with data-driven techniques from the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning.

Modelling methodologies of interest include automata, agents, Petri nets, process algebras and rewriting systems. Application domains include social systems, ecology, biology, medicine, smart cities, governance, security, education, software engineering, and any other field that deals with complex systems and large amounts of data.

Papers can present research results in any of the themes of interest for the symposium as well as application experiences, tools and promising preliminary ideas. Papers dealing with synergistic approaches that integrate modelling and knowledge management/discovery or that exploit knowledge management/discovery to develop/syntesise system models are especially welcome.

Topics of interest

Modelling and analysis methodologies include

  • Agent-based Methodologies
  • Automata-based Methodologies
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Cellular Automata
  • Classification
  • Clustering, Segmentation and Profiling
  • Conformance Analysis
  • Constraint Programming
  • Data Mining
  • Differential Equations
  • Game Theory
  • Machine Learning
  • Membrane Systems
  • Network Theory and Analysis
  • Ontologies
  • Optimisation Modelling
  • Petri Nets
  • Process Calculi
  • Process Mining
  • Rewriting Systems
  • Spatio-temporal Data Analysis/Mining
  • Statistical Model Checking
  • Text Mining
  • Topological Data Analysis

Application domains include:

  • Biology
  • Brain Data and Simulation
  • Business Process Management
  • Climate Change
  • Cybersecurity
  • Ecology
  • Education
  • Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
  • Enterprise Architectures
  • Epidemiology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Governance
  • HCI and Human Behaviour
  • Open Source Software Development and Communities
  • Pharmacology
  • Resilience Engineering
  • Safety and Security Risk Assessment
  • Social Good
  • Social Software Engineering
  • Social Systems
  • Sustainable Development
  • Threat modelling and analysis
  • Urban Ecology
  • Smart Cities and Smart Lands

Synergistic approaches include:

  1. Use of modelling methods and notations in a knowledge management/discovery context
  1. Development and use of common modelling and knowledge management/discovery frameworks to explore and understand complex systems from the application domains of interest

Important Dates

TBA

RESEARCH PAPERS – SHORT AND FULL

  • Abstract submission deadline (optional): September 3, 2026
  • Paper submission deadline: September 10, 2026
  • Acceptance notification: October 10, 2026
  • Revised version: October 20
    (note that you will have the opportunity to submit the camera-ready
    paper for the LNCS Proceedings with discussions and remarks
    after the symposium, ie, by the end of the year or early Jan/27)

PRESENTATION REPORT

  • Presentation report deadline: TBA
  • Acceptance notification: TBA

Paper Submission And Publication

TYPES

Papers can take one of the following three types:

  • Regular (research, tool or position) paper, up to 16 pages (excluding references)
  • Short (research, tool or position) paper, up to 8 pages (excluding references)
  • Presentation report, up to 4 pages
  • Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no restriction as for previous/future publication of the contents of a presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another recognised conference, or which has not yet been submitted. Presentation reports will receive a lightweight review to establish their relevance for DataMod (see the Call for Presentation Reports).

    SUBMISSION

    TBA

    PUBLICATION

    Accepted papers will be included in the Symposium programme and will appear in the symposium pre-proceedings. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Symposium. Condition for inclusion in the pre-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has registered for the Symposium. Revised versions of accepted papers will be published after the Symposium in a LNCS volume published by Springer. Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Symposium.

    Contact the organizers

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    Organization

    PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

    • TBA

    STEERING COMMITTEE

    • Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, UK
    • Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
    • Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa, Italy
    • Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
    • Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa, Canada
    • Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy
    • Anna Monreale, University of Pisa, Italy

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    • TBA