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Call for Contributions - DEBS 2010

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4th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS)
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sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and SIGMOD and in cooperation with EPTS

July 12-15, 2010, King's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

http://debs10.doc.ic.ac.uk

Abstract submission: Feb 22, 2010
Research/industry paper submission: March 1, 2010
Tutorial proposal submission: March 1, 2010
Author notification: April 26, 2010
Poster/demo/fast abstract submission: May 1, 2010
Conference: July 12-15, 2010

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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 modelling, 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 subcommunities to share their views and reach a
common understanding.

The scope of the conference covers all topics relevant to event-based
computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g.,
coordination, software engineering, peer-to-peer systems, Grid computing,
and streaming databases), over domain-specific topics of event-based
computing (e.g., workflow management systems, mobile computing, pervasive
and ubiquitous computing, sensor 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

Middleware Infrastructures for Event-Based Computing
- Federated event-based systems
- Middleware for actuator and sensor networks
- Algorithms and protocols
- 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

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 characterising 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

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Author Instructions

Five types of submissions will be accepted: research papers, industry
papers, demos, posters and fast abstract contributions.

Submitted papers should clearly indicate their type. Papers must not
exceed the given number of pages for the respective submission category:
12 pages for research track papers, 10 pages for industry papers, 4
pages industry experience papers, 2 pages for demo, poster papers, and
for fast abstract submissions. Further details about each submission
type can be found on the DEBS'10 website (http://debs10.doc.ic.ac.uk).

All submissions must be original and unpublished. Submissions must be in
the ACM format for conference proceedings. The conference adopts a double
blind review process. Industry submissions will be evaluated by an
Industrial Programme Committee. Accepted papers will be published by the
ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. All contributions
except for fast abstracts will be included in the official proceedings.

More information about tutorial proposals can be found on the DEBS'10
website.

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Organisers

General Co-Chairs:
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London

Program Co-Chairs:
Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University

Organisation Co-Chairs:
Ken Moody, University of Cambridge
David Eyers, University of Cambridge

Industrial Co-Chairs:
Richard Tibbetts, StreamBase Systems
Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Research

Demo and Poster Chair:
Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

Tutorial Chair:
Opher Etzion, IBM Research

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Leonardo Querzoni, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University, MA, USA

Web Chair:
Matteo Migliavacca, Imperial College London

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Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Raman Adaikkalavan, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Paulo Alencar, University of Waterloo, Canada
Henrique Andrade, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Robert Berry, Aston University, UK
Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France
Francois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas Arlington, USA
Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel
Mariano Cilia, Intel Cordoba, Argentina
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy
Renato Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Ludger Fiege, Siemens, Germany
Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Research, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI and National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Songlin Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research, USA
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
Charles Krasic, University of British Columbia, Canada
Gero Muehl, University of Rostock, Germany
Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Leonardo Querzoni, Roma University, Italy
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT-Bombay, India
Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki and Nokia Research Center, Finland
Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway
Seth White, Oracle, USA
Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China

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Conference Location

The venue for the 2010 edition of DEBS will be the prestigious King's
College in Cambridge, UK, which is one of the most beautiful colleges in
Cambridge. The Chapel of King's College has become a symbol of the city.