Event-based systems are rapidly gaining importance in many application domains ranging from real time monitoring systems in production, logistics and networking to complex event processing in finance and security. The event based paradigm has gathered momentum as witnessed by current efforts in areas including event-driven architectures, complex event processing, business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services notifications, information dissemination, event stream processing, and message-oriented middleware. The various communities dealing with event based systems have made progress in different aspects of the problem. The DEBS conference attempts to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the various sub communities to share their views and reach a common understanding.

The 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) builds on the success of the previous five editions beginning in 2007. The DEBS Conference success is rooted in five editions of the DEBS workshops held from 2002 to 2006 in conjunction with major conferences such as ICDCS, ICSE, and SIGMOD/PODS. The conference has received full ACM sponsorship since 2009.

The objectives of the DEBS Conference are to provide a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting of relevant experience relating to event-based computing that was previously scattered across several scientific and professional communities. The conference also aims at providing a forum for academia and industry to exchange ideas, for example, through industry papers and demo papers.
The conference will consist of the following tracks:

Research track featuring high quality research paper on relevant topics.
Industry track with two sub-tracks: industry full papers and industrial experience reports that will be based on submitted abstracts.
Tutorials geared towards either the research or the industrial communities.
Demos and posters.
The DEBS 2012 challenge will provide an opportunity to view various implementations to a published specification both by research prototypes and commercial systems.
Gong show: The gong show will consist of short presentations about visionary and outrageous ideas towards the next generation of event-based systems. Selection will be done by submitting a short abstract. The audience will vote for the best idea
PhD workshop

Scope of the Conference

The scope of the conference covers all topics relevant to event-based computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g. coordination, dependability, software engineering, peer-to-peer systems, Grid computing and streaming databases), to domain-specific topics of event-based computing (e.g. workflow management systems, mobile computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, sensors networks, user interfaces, component integration, Web services and embedded systems), to enterprise related topics (e.g. complex event detection, enterprise application integration, real time enterprises and Web services notifications).

The topics addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to):
Models, Architectures and Paradigms

Event-driven architectures
Basic interaction models
Event algebras, event schemas and type systems
Languages for event correlation and patterns, streaming and continuous queries, data fusion
Models for static and dynamic environments
Complex event processing
Design and programming methodologies
Event-based business process management and modeling
Experimental methodologies
Performance modeling and prediction based on analytic approaches
Functional Reactive Programming

Middleware Infrastructures for Event-Based Computing

Federated event-based systems
Middleware for actuator and sensor networks
Algorithms and protocols
Optimization techniques for event-based (or streaming) systems
Event dissemination based on p2p systems
Context and location awareness
Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and recovery
Security issues
(Self-)Management
Mobility and resource constrained device support
Streaming queries, transformations, or correlation engines
Logic-based event processing
Semantic event processing
Business Process Management with events

Applications, Experiences, and Requirements

Use cases and applications of event-based systems
Real-world application deployments using event-based middleware
Domain-specific deployments of event-based systems
Real-world data characterizing event-based applications
Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
Application requirements for next-generation event-based solutions
Relation to other architectures
Enterprise application integration
Event-driven business process management
Information logistics
Seamless integration of event-based mechanisms into middleware platforms