Call for Contributions ---------------------- 2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-based Systems (DEBS 2008) July 2-4, 2008, Rome, Italy Conference web site: http://debs08.dis.uniroma1.it/ Sponsorship ----------- USENIX and ACM approved IEEE approval in-progress Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract submission: March 9th, 2008 Paper submission: March 15th, 2008 Authors notification: May 10th, 2008 Final manuscript: May 31st, 2008 DEBS Conference dates: July 2nd-4th, 2008 Scope ----- 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 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 Author Instructions ------------------- Three types of paper submissions will be accepted: research papers, industry papers, and demo papers. Submitted papers should clearly indicate their type. Papers must not exceed the given number of pages for the respective paper type: Research Papers: (max. 12 pages), Industry Papers: (max. 8 pages) Demo Papers: (max. 4 pages). Submissions must be in the ACM format for conference proceedings. The conference adopts a double blind review process, where neither authors nor reviewers know each others' identities. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Industry submissions will be evaluated by an Industry Committee. Conference location ------------------- Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti" Sapienza Università di Roma Via Ariosto 25, Roma Italy The location is in the very heart of the ancient Rome, 10 minutes walking distance from some of the most famous city monuments: Colosseum, Domus Aurea and Imperial Forums. Moreover, the conference is located in the middle of the axe connecting two famous basilicas, St. John Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore, both reachable in less than 5 minutes walking distance. Organization ------------ General Chair: Roberto Baldoni (Sapienza Universita di Roma) Steering Committee Chair: Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto) Program Co-Chairs: Alejandro Buchmann (Technische Universitat Darmstad) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni (Sapienza Universita di Roma) Industry Chair: Eliezer Dekel (IBM Research Haifa) Demo Chair: Annika Hinze (University of Waikato) Tutorial Chair: Gero Muhl (Technische Universitat Berlin) Intl. Relations Co-Chair: Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy Tim Bass, SilkRoad Asia Co. Ltd., Thailand. Publicity Co-Chairs: Antonio Casimiro Costa (Universidade de Lisboa) Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University) Nesime Tatbul (ETH Zurich) Organization Co-Chairs: Vivien Quema (INRIA Rhone-Alpes) Leonardo Querzoni (Sapienza Universita di Roma) Publication Chair: Marin Bertier (IRISA/INSA-Rennes) 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