DEBS 2008

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).

Conference Scope

The topics addressed by the conference include, but are not limited to:

Important Dates

Conference Location

The conference will be held at Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti", Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto 25 (map), Roma, Italy.

Program Committee

• Raman Adaikkalavan, Indiana University South Bend, USA
• Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India
• Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
• Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Francois Bry, University of Munich, Germany
• Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas Arlington, USA
• Mani Chandi, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa, Israel
• Mariano Cilia, Intel, Argentina
• Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
• Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
• Giampaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Umesh Dayal, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
• Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa, Israel
• Ludger Fiege, Siemens, Germany
• Mike Franklin, University of California at Berkeley and Truviso Inc., USA
• Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, USA
• Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Research Lab Redmond, USA
• Rachid Guerraoui, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA
• Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA Rennes, France
• Martin Kersten, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
• Michael Lefler, Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA
• Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Jean Philippe Martin, Microsoft Research Lab Cambridge, UK
• Keith Marzullo, University of California at San Diego, USA
• Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Peter R. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
• Beth A. Plale, Indiana University, USA
• Kay Römer, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland
• Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon, USA
• Sasu Tarkoma, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
• Richard Tibbetts, Streambase, USA
• Maarten Van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
• Paul Vincent, TIBCO, USA
• Seth White, BEA, USA

Organization

Submission Guidelines

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference.

Three types of paper submissions will be accepted:

• research papers (max. 12 pages): a research paper describes new results that advance the state-of-the-art in basic or applied research.
• industry papers (max. 8 pages): an industry paper describes the design, the experience (in building, deploying and running), or the performance of an industry system. Commonly, the majority of authors on the paper are from industry. Product marketing material will not be accepted as papers.
• demo papers (max. 4 pages): a demo paper reports on an existing research prototype by clearly identifying the original contributions and ideas demonstrated. The authors are expected to prepare a poster and perform a live software demonstration on their own laptop during an exhibit-style conference reception. Any special requirements should be identified in the appendix of the paper.

Submitted papers should clearly indicate on the first page the submission type. Industry submissions will be evaluated by an Industry Committee.

The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.

The conference adopts a double blind review process, where neither authors nor reviewers know each others' identities.

Papers must not exceed the given number of pages for the respective paper type. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. The author kit containing templates for the required style can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate a double-blind review process. Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms, which can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/.