------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS* Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2007) Toronto, Canada, June 20-22, 2007 http://debs.msrg.toronto.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In cooperation with: USENIX, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, ACM (SIGSOFT) We acknowledge sponsorship from: CA Labs (main event sponsor) and MiTACS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ====== Scope ====== The Inaugural International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems is following on the success of the previous five DEBS Workshops held from 2002 to 2006 in companion with major conferences sponsored by IEEE and ACM such as ICDCS, ICSE, and SIGMOD/PODS. Event-based systems have been established in industry and research for many years. They are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed by current efforts in areas including event-driven architectures, business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services notifications, and message-oriented middleware. Events represent asynchronous state transitions in the environment and event-based computing refers to the computational support and abstractions required to adequately manage and process events. ======================= Call for Demonstrations ======================= The conference will feature a *demo session*, in which researchers have the opportunity to demonstrate the real, working event-based systems they have built. We invite demonstrations of event-based applications, frameworks, and algorithms that use the event-based paradigm in a new and innovative way. The conference brings together research and industry in distributed event-based systems. We explicitly encourage contributions from adjacent research communities and application fields that may use event-based approaches. The demonstration session is a new and exciting way to showcase your applications and introduce new prototypes to the community. The demo session will take place as an exhibit-style conference reception. Each demo will be represented by up to 4 pages in the proceedings. The paper reports on the presented research prototype and clearly identifies the original contributions and ideas demonstrated. In addition to the paper, the authors are expected to prepare a poster and to perform a live software demonstration on their own laptop. Any special requirements should be identified in the appendix of the paper. =============== Important Dates =============== Paper Submission: March 14, 2007 Author Notification: May 7, 2007 Final Manuscript due: May 28, 2007 DEBS Conference: June 20-22, 2007 ===================== 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. Besides demonstration papers, the conference will also accept research papers and industry papers. Submitted papers should clearly indicate their type. 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 reviewer know each others' identities. Demonstration papers must not exceed four pages. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate a double-blind review process. Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The ACM Computing Classification scheme can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/. The author kit containing the Latex templates for the required style can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. More detailed submission instructions will be posted at the conference web site. =================== Conference Location =================== The conference will be held at the University of Toronto, Canada. ================= Program Committee ================= Jean M. Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Roger S. Barga, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA Tim Bass, SilkRoad, Inc., USA Sumeer Bhola, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Alejandro P. Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel Ludger Fiege, Siemens, Germany Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA David Rosenblum, University College London, UK Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece ============ Organization ============ General Chair Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada PC Chair Gero Muehl, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Organizing Chair Michael A. Jaeger, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Publicity Chair Peter R. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK Demo Chair Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand